It makes me laugh at myself every time I think of Jesse's maxim because in the face of such wisdom I still instinctively rail, "Nuh uh! The shit I like is the BEST!"
I'm telling you -- it's shocking but true.
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
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."
Jesse - May 15, 2006 5:47:25 pm PDT #502 of 28061
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JoeCrow - May 15, 2006 6:23:57 pm PDT #503 of 28061
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
No love for Little, Big ? Bah. These people do not speak for me. Despite the A Winter's Tale nod. Bah, I say again.
IAmNotReallyASpring - May 16, 2006 10:55:54 am PDT #504 of 28061
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
All novelists who are worth anything at all resist a version of life as it has been presented to them. What Flaubert meant by bourgeois life is not what his age meant by bourgeois life, and what Austen meant by the word "woman" was subtly at odds with the usage of that word in her time.
Well, it depends on what she means by 'worth anything at all'. If she means 'good writers of literature', then I think she's right. I've come to think of the literary novelist as being primarily concerned with psychological and social mechanisms that work at right angles to received wisdom, which would mean that their novels would, incidentally, 'resist a version of life as it has been presented to them.'
But that implies that writers of entertainments, no matter how well crafted they may be, is not 'worth anything at all'. So, I also think she's wrong.
And that's if I understood her meaning.
Gus - May 19, 2006 11:25:36 am PDT #505 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Sure. Come back looking for some real people talking about real stuff. If it is all about green snot and Irving, you just need to adjust your definition of "real stuff".
erikaj - May 22, 2006 7:08:16 am PDT #506 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
What? Not following, bunk. English, motherfucker, English!(On an international board, that comma is wicked important. Also, it's a total quote.)
Gus - May 22, 2006 2:07:00 pm PDT #507 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Bunk, thanks for the fix-up. I lurves me some Irving. Green snot is not high among my favorite topics.
Short sentences. I should stick to short sentences.
erikaj - May 22, 2006 2:09:00 pm PDT #508 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Mine either. Who was talking about that?
beth b - May 28, 2006 7:55:21 pm PDT #509 of 28061
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Mr. Broom - May 28, 2006 8:41:40 pm PDT #510 of 28061
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
That's way great. Way way way great.
Consuela - May 29, 2006 9:40:19 am PDT #511 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Heh. Fun!