Hints are up: [link]
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 24, 2023 6:09:39 pm PST #27807 of 28432
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
aurelia - Nov 25, 2023 4:54:05 pm PST #27808 of 28432
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 28432
"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 28432
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 28432
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 28432
Insist? Perceptive or Deceptive?
-t - Nov 27, 2023 9:06:50 am PST #27813 of 28432
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Receptive? Agree on "insist"
megan walker - Nov 27, 2023 2:49:34 pm PST #27814 of 28432
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The answers to my First Lines challenge: [link]
-t - Nov 27, 2023 3:27:56 pm PST #27815 of 28432
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
As I suspected, the ones I couldn't get I never would have. But now I want to read some of them
megan walker - Nov 27, 2023 4:01:09 pm PST #27816 of 28432
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
But now I want to read some of them.
My work here is done I guess.