It’s that time of year literistas—my annual first lines challenge: [link]
I have high hopes for you this year!
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
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 28066
"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 28066
"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 28066
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 28066
"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 28066
"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 28066
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 28066
"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 28066
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 28066
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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 28066
Insist? Perceptive or Deceptive?