It’s that time of year literistas—my annual first lines challenge: [link]
I have high hopes for you this year!
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
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."
megan walker - Nov 23, 2023 9:32:27 am PST #27803 of 28033
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan walker - Nov 23, 2023 11:51:17 pm PST #27804 of 28033
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I have high hopes for you this year!
I glad to see I was right. I think having six guessed on the first day may be a record.
Toddson - Nov 24, 2023 8:26:35 am PST #27805 of 28033
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Several years ago, at a previous job, I was friendly with a co-worker. We both had a taste for old books and, one day, I asked him what he was reading and he said I probably had never heard of it. When he said "Scaramouche" I quoted the first line to him, which he found a little surprising. Well, it IS one of the great opening lines ....
megan walker - Nov 24, 2023 9:34:08 am PST #27806 of 28033
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It has been such a joy to discover Sabatini this year.
megan walker - Nov 24, 2023 6:09:39 pm PST #27807 of 28033
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hints are up: [link]
aurelia - Nov 25, 2023 4:54:05 pm PST #27808 of 28033
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
#2 is taunting me. I just can't quite pull it out of the memory bank.
megan walker - Nov 25, 2023 9:57:25 pm PST #27809 of 28033
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
#2 is taunting me. I just can't quite pull it out of the memory bank.
An interesting statement given the story.
Toddson - Nov 27, 2023 7:25:25 am PST #27810 of 28033
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm SO looking forward to a new Saint of Steel book. FYI, I recently finished a book about the Royal Wardrobe. I got the e-book on sale and it would have greatly benefitted from illustrations; maybe the hard copy has them. In just reading about various royals' styles, it got to be kind of boring; also, I kept finding historic inaccuracies, which left me sitting there, kind of going, "but, but, but".
dcp - Nov 27, 2023 8:17:54 am PST #27811 of 28033
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
I recently came across this video [link] which was delightful, and which led m me to this:
GLOSSI know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he’s just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.
When life turns sipid and the mind is traught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.
David McCord (1897-1997)
The Oxford Book of American Light Verse
I need help parsing "ceptive" and "sist", please. Any ideas?
meara - Nov 27, 2023 8:39:39 am PST #27812 of 28033
Insist? Perceptive or Deceptive?