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.
Riley: Maybe I should just let you rest. Buffy: You sure? I bet if you just lay down with me- Riley: Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.
'Lessons'
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 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?
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.
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 5:43:31 am PDT #3863 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh.
It's weird--it feels like people are dying left, right, and centre. But really, it's just the passage of time and getting older.
His fans must be in all sorts of tizzies. I don't know a damned thing about his presence, just of his works. But I imagine they might feel like I felt when Octavia Butler died. I just hope they don't have a Fledgling left behind. That stung.
sumi - Sep 17, 2007 5:51:33 am PDT #3864 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, one of my friends said that "selfishly" she hopes that his wife finishes the book.