I've never read "William Wilson". I think "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Masque of the Red Death" are my favorites. I haven't read them in a while.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sj - Mar 09, 2007 6:29:32 am PST #2083 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2007 6:48:21 am PST #2084 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Language Log on Inuits and snow. As you can see, it comes up often.
I recently went through a number of old-school horror stories on CD, and was left feeling alienated by a number of them. They didn't feel so much like stories as just retellings. Even in the ones where I didn't know what was coming (like House of Usher) there didn't seem to be anything to get spooked about. No anticipation, and very little compelling atmosphere.
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 7:04:16 am PST #2085 of 28175
Mostly lurking...
I clearly need to branch out in my vocabulary a bit. Actual conversation with my mother last weekend:
Mom: Why don't you just get the grape jam?
Me: I don't like grape jam. I like grape jelly.
Mom: What's the difference?
Me: The jelly is more, well, jellied, and the jam is jamish. t pause I just don't like it.
Ginger - Mar 09, 2007 7:12:55 am PST #2086 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"It Must be Jelly, 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That"
Nutty - Mar 09, 2007 7:17:44 am PST #2087 of 28175
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Jelly is kissing cousins with Jello, and jam is not. It is quite simple! Do we call it "Jamo"? No we do not.
Now I want a product named Jamo.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2007 7:23:41 am PST #2088 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner,
Even better is Flaneur. That would be the particular type of person who strolls stylishly around the Boulevard.
Beverly - Mar 09, 2007 7:26:01 am PST #2089 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
"Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'."
IJS.
Nutty - Mar 09, 2007 7:27:22 am PST #2090 of 28175
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Even better is Flaneur. That would be the particular type of person who strolls stylishly around the Boulevard.
Ahem. Flaneuse, in my case.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2007 7:28:53 am PST #2091 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ahem. Flaneuse, in my case.
Well, that would be a recent innovation. The heydey of the Flaneur was the 19th century, and women weren't Flaneuses so much back then, excepting perhaps George Sand. Though "streetwalker" and "Flaneur" describe the same activity, they don't describe the same thing.
Nutty - Mar 09, 2007 7:33:35 am PST #2092 of 28175
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
If I'd lived in the 19th C., I so totally would have been a cross-dresser. Just to be able to go places without having a giant neon sign spelling GURL follow me everywhere!