"This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives."
I had a professor just like this. Adored him.
Also, now I want to change my name to "Quiddity."
See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Volans - Sep 06, 2007 1:47:30 am PDT #3818 of 28212
move out and draw fire
DavidS - Sep 06, 2007 5:14:55 am PDT #3819 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, now I want to change my name to "Quiddity."
Right?
Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2007 8:31:14 am PDT #3820 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hec and others will enjoy this article about William Gibson.
DavidS - Sep 06, 2007 8:57:22 am PDT #3821 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Nice piece, P-Cow. This quote was a little distressing:
"If I had gone to Ace Books in 1981 and pitched a novel set in a world with a sexually contagious disease that destroys the human immune system and that is raging across most of the world -- particularly badly in Africa -- they might have said, 'Not bad. A little toasty. That's kind of interesting.'
"But I'd say -- ' But wait! Also, the internal combustion engine and everything else we've been doing that forces carbon into the atmosphere has thrown the climate out of whack with possibly terminal and catastrophic results.' And they'd say, 'You've already got this thing you call AIDS. Let's not --'
"And I'd say, ' But wait! Islamic terrorists from the Middle East have hijacked airplanes and flown them into the World Trade Center.' Not only would they not go for it, they probably would have called security."
Dana - Sep 07, 2007 7:35:34 am PDT #3822 of 28212
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sumi - Sep 07, 2007 7:36:10 am PDT #3823 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
Oh no!
flea - Sep 07, 2007 7:51:08 am PDT #3824 of 28212
information libertarian
Oddly, Wikipedia has her death date listed as 8/31/07, with no citation, and AP/NYT doesn't list anything.
I loved many of her books. If you haven't read the 2004 New Yorker profile of her and you love her books, don't ever read it. Unless you can successfully detach knowing about the writer from enjoying the writing (I can't.)
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2007 7:52:56 am PDT #3825 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, now I need to know, flea. Dish. Whitefont if necessary.
Liese S. - Sep 07, 2007 7:55:29 am PDT #3826 of 28212
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh!
I just went in to cry to the SO. Madeline L'engle had a huge influence on my life. She significantly altered some of my inherited views and challenged me to think through some others. I am more tolerant today because of her.
When I was a little girl, I used to rush to the library to get her newest book. It was my first experience with reading the works of a living, breathing, creating author.
The mother of one of my friends is a great author herself, and was in a writing group with her. I always intended to write Madeline a thank-you letter and send it through her, but I never did. I regret that.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2007 7:57:18 am PDT #3827 of 28212
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Madeline L'engle had a huge influence on my life. She significantly altered some of my inherited views and challenged me to think through some others.
Oh, me too! She's one of my top 5 favorite authors.
Man. That breaks my heart.