The full textbook is here: [link]
It's got all kinds of odd little line drawings in it -- much better than just the English translation!
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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."
amych - Sep 16, 2007 10:49:19 am PDT #3853 of 28212
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DavidS - Sep 16, 2007 10:59:24 am PDT #3854 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
amych, were you familiar with this work before?
amych - Sep 16, 2007 11:02:36 am PDT #3855 of 28212
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I didn't use it when I was studying Russian, but you're right that it's legendary -- a lot of Russian teachers I know are still grumbling that there hasn't been a decent textbook published since. He influenced a lot of teachers' pedagogy, too, aside from just writing the textbooks.
Hil R. - Sep 16, 2007 3:38:02 pm PDT #3856 of 28212
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My French classes in middle school had similar sorts of ritual things. There are still a bunch of French phrases where I'll just automatically jump in with the response, even when it's totally inappropriate for the situation. We learned that way -- through learning vocab and phrases and sentences and conversations, with no formal grammar at all -- for seventh grade and the beginning of eighth grade, and then the end of eighth grade was a combination of that stuff and some basic grammar, with a whole lot of memorizing French poems and essays thrown in. Our seventh grade teacher was absolutely nuts, but we did learn a lot of French that way.
Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2007 4:40:11 pm PDT #3857 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
sumi - Sep 16, 2007 5:45:16 pm PDT #3858 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
PC - where on that website is that information?
I'm trying to get into it - I sent the link to friends who are fans but I'm not finding the announcement at all and I'm having a great deal of difficulty getting on the page and when I do - I don't see the announcement.
Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2007 5:54:00 pm PDT #3859 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh, you're right, it's not loading. Probably getting way too many hits. It was a blog post by someone close to him, I think, who'd been posting about him.
Here's a report.
sumi - Sep 16, 2007 6:07:04 pm PDT #3860 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
Thanks - I'll send that link too.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2007 6:45:00 pm PDT #3861 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is the series done? I tried to read one of them, after having read (but not enjoyed, I just had to) the first five or so. And it was unintelligible and the main people were otherwise occupied.
Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2007 9:01:38 pm PDT #3862 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, he was trying to finish the final volume, however long it was going to end up being.