Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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."
Laga - Sep 07, 2007 10:11:10 pm PDT #3842 of 28212
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Emily - Sep 09, 2007 4:44:22 am PDT #3843 of 28212
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
L'Engle wrote me a letter once. A monk friend of my mother's sent her a poem I wrote. Apparently. Now that I say it out loud, it all sounds rather implausible.
Laga - Sep 09, 2007 10:30:11 am PDT #3844 of 28212
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
A college friend of mine wrote back and forth with Piers Anthony but I've heard he had hundreds of pen pals.
beekaytee - Sep 11, 2007 8:54:22 am PDT #3845 of 28212
Compassionately intolerant
Kin Platt, author of my favorite and as yet unrepurchased YA novel Sinbad and Me, was tracked down (published info only) by an old boyfriend who wanted to surprise me with a copy...couldn't find any and figured the author might have a clue where to look. Platt threatened to call the police. That guy was cranky .
I mentioned Sinbad and Me here a couple of years ago and got shared love, which is validating. Still no copy on my shelf though.
Is still sad and possessing of a vague sense of incompletion.
DavidS - Sep 11, 2007 9:51:30 am PDT #3846 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm a huge fan of Sinbad and me. I'd love to read it again, as well as its sequels (which are even more rare).
beekaytee - Sep 11, 2007 11:42:31 am PDT #3847 of 28212
Compassionately intolerant
It's beginning to feel like the Holy Grail...
Connie Neil - Sep 11, 2007 3:13:50 pm PDT #3848 of 28212
brillig
There are sequels to Sinbad and me? That book turned me on to architecture.
DavidS - Sep 11, 2007 4:57:07 pm PDT #3849 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There are sequels to Sinbad and me? That book turned me on to architecture.
I only read The Mystery of the Witch Who Wouldn't.
But I think there's another one after that.
beekaytee - Sep 12, 2007 7:28:57 am PDT #3850 of 28212
Compassionately intolerant
That book turned me on to architecture.
Me too!
And codes and cyphers...far before I knew how to pronounce sighfers.
And gold dubloons.
And a kid in a wheelchair being smart and cool.
It's astonishing how much I remember from that book, nearly 40 years later.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2007 10:42:09 am PDT #3851 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I found this cool thing I need to share with Buffistas. I'm not sure if it really applies to literary, but it certainly has a literary quality, and would also apply to teachers and/or students of foreign language or people that like cool stuff (i.e., us).
I'm on a mailing list with Mimi Lipson, and she shared this recently:
My father wrote a Russian language textbook, considered a sort of cult classic in the rarefied world of out-of-print language textbooks.
Anyhow, the book contains all these amazing little stories--translation exercises, but also literary gems in their own right. They range from Gogolesque fairy tales to bathetic agitprop to lampoons of boilerplate textbook dialogues ("The American Tourist and the Soviet Citizen")... and beyond...
Here's a link to a flicr page of the transcripts.
They're so funny and interesting!
But there's this other cool thing that I really loved: The Ritual...