Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


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."


Atropa - Nov 25, 2007 6:50:43 pm PST #4340 of 28260
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I've walked through what remains of the 100 Acre Wood, and played Pooh Sticks at Pooh Sticks Bridge.


Ginger - Nov 25, 2007 7:56:50 pm PST #4341 of 28260
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I felt just the same way about the London wall. I'm not alone!

Literary pilgrimages:

Green Gables on PEI
Orchard House
Walden Pond
House of Seven Gables
Hannibal, Missouri
A drink at the Hay-Adams Hotel, on the site of the home Henry Adams built with John Hay.
Hadrian's Wall (Rosemary Sutcliff)
221 Baker Street
The home where Samuel Johnson wrote the dictionary
Stratford upon Avon
Tintagel and Glastonbury (Arthur)


Fred Pete - Nov 26, 2007 5:14:59 am PST #4342 of 28260
Ann, that's a ferret.

I remember touching a Roman wall at the Museum of London

Even bigger tingle -- the piece of Roman wall still standing in place near the Tower of London. (It's just outside the nearest Underground station.)


sj - Nov 26, 2007 5:20:32 am PST #4343 of 28260
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I would also love to see Orchard House (is that it?), Louisa May Alcott's childhood home.

I've been there. I'd be happy to go back with you anytime you are up this way.

Almost every trip I have taken to England has had some sort of literary pilgrimage in it. Bath was my favorite. I loved all of the Jane Austen things there. I also have seen Austen's house in Chawton, Kipling's house, I love the Globe in London (even though it is not original). There's more but I can't remember them all right now.

I remember being disappointed that I couldn't convince our tour guide to stop at Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave in Florence.


Ginger - Nov 26, 2007 5:39:04 am PST #4344 of 28260
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I haven't been to London since the new Globe was built. Want.

Reading so informs my world that almost all my travel is some sort of literary pilgrimage. I also discovered that my large intake of British murder mysteries meant I had no trouble with the language or culture. I found it startling that there were Americans around me baffled by lift, lorry and what floor they were on.


Dana - Nov 26, 2007 8:32:10 am PST #4345 of 28260
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I took my copy of Gaudy Night to Oxford the second time I went.


Jesse - Nov 26, 2007 8:35:37 am PST #4346 of 28260
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I also discovered that my large intake of British murder mysteries meant I had no trouble with the language or culture.

I realized semi-recently that my large intake of old British murder mysteries is why I'm always surprised when it's not five dollars to the pound -- because that's what it was in the 30s! Der.


Toddson - Nov 26, 2007 9:22:55 am PST #4347 of 28260
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Jesse, wait a little while - it should be back there!


DebetEsse - Nov 26, 2007 12:20:47 pm PST #4348 of 28260
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Even bigger tingle -- the piece of Roman wall still standing in place near the Tower of London. (It's just outside the nearest Underground station.)

This is me. I happened upon it and went up to touch it. Some people behind me followed suit, but I'm fairly certain they didn't know why.


Glamcookie - Nov 26, 2007 12:24:10 pm PST #4349 of 28260
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Even bigger tingle -- the piece of Roman wall still standing in place near the Tower of London. (It's just outside the nearest Underground station.)

Hee! We loved this, too [link] See also the Sherlock Holmes excursion also on this page.