I've been to the Whitehorse Tavern, though. And had a drink for Dylan Thomas.
I've been there too. And had my friend read my tarot cards there.
I'm a big girl. Just tell me.
Inara ,'Objects In Space'
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."
DavidS - Nov 24, 2007 7:29:17 pm PST #4328 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Nov 24, 2007 7:35:11 pm PST #4329 of 28260
Always Anti-fascist!
was she right?
DavidS - Nov 24, 2007 8:02:54 pm PST #4330 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
was she right?
It was a good reading. She's a neurologist - very precise.
P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2007 8:07:20 pm PST #4331 of 28260
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Has anybody here made a literary pilgrimage? I don't know that I have really.
Hell, I lived within walking distance of the Blue Moon [link] after I turned 21, and STILL failed to do so. Which is really as much of a literary pilgrimage as one can do in Seattle.
meara - Nov 24, 2007 10:05:18 pm PST #4332 of 28260
Let me suggest if you get to a strange city, and you're by yourself, and you think "It would be neat to read a novel set in this city while I'm here!", do NOT pick up a serial killer book set in the city you're in.
Scared the crap out of myself in Montreal that way...
Jessica - Nov 25, 2007 3:49:49 am PST #4333 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When my grandparents still lived in Boston we would always drive past the salt and pepper bridge to see Mr and Mrs Mallard. I love that book.
Susan W. - Nov 25, 2007 5:46:04 am PST #4334 of 28260
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
The first time I was in Boston, the friend I was traveling with and I happened upon the swan boats, and I started babbling about The Trumpet of the Swan and how much I'd ADORED that book as a child. Val had never read it and looked at me like I was mildly crazy.
Reading as much historical fiction as I do, I have to confess that the line between historical and literary pilgrimage gets a bit blurred. E.g. at Culloden I was thinking of Jamie Fraser and not just the real-life tragedy of the place.
Strix - Nov 25, 2007 9:13:48 am PST #4335 of 28260
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
See, in Bath I was totally not thinking of Bronte -- I was thinking of the Wife of Bath!
Strangely enough for an English teacher, I didn't really get hung up on literary things when I was in London. I was all about the passage of history.
I remember touching a Roman wall at the Museum of London, and about having a historical orgasm just thinking about all the people who have touched it through the years, who they were, when they were, their hopes and dreams and fears -- their essential humanity.
beth b - Nov 25, 2007 9:24:56 am PST #4336 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
whitehorse tavern -check
Mark twain's house in Hartford
when DH and I were in london we found 84 charing cross road (it is a pizza shop). That was the only deliberate one.We went lots of other places that were literary -but they were mixed up with the historical.
and when arrived in SF we ran all over the city looking for places from Tales of the City
When we went to Hawaii I read Michners's book. More for context then for pilgrimage planning
beth b - Nov 25, 2007 9:27:48 am PST #4337 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I 've been thinking about what Erin said. I love going places that are crowded with history