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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."

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Sue - Jun 20, 2008 9:12:29 am PDT #6456 of 28374

hip deep in pie

Here's a fragment of a poem by Keats:

This Living Hand

This living hand, now warm and capable

Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold

And in the icy silence of the tomb,

So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights

That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood

So in my veins red life might stream again,

And thou be conscience-calmed—see here it is—

I hold it towards you.

Connie Neil - Jun 20, 2008 9:15:34 am PDT #6457 of 28374

brillig

OK, Keats had some issues.

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:18:38 am PDT #6458 of 28374

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Excellent call, Juliana.

but wouldn't Edgar Allan Poe land a spot or two on the list?

You'd think.

I don't know. "Lenore"? "Ulalume"? "The Raven"?

Sue - Jun 20, 2008 9:18:39 am PDT #6459 of 28374

hip deep in pie

Well, he was 24 and dying of tuberculosis.

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:20:06 am PDT #6460 of 28374

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well, he was 24 and dying of tuberculosis.

Goth as fuck!

There's got to be some Blake and Yeats here. Also a book of poetry titled Flowers of Evil should be a well spring.

Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:22:58 am PDT #6461 of 28374

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

C'mon now, I'm depending on you to round out the top ten.

This is where I somewhat shamefacedly admit that I am notoriously weak with poetry. I just don't read much of it.

Also, Jilli, since you're a trained singer, what would be the Gothiest Opera?

Opera is the other thing I'm weak in. Off the top of my head: Don Giovanni, or Orfeo ed Euridice.

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:26:48 am PDT #6462 of 28374

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Those sound like good choices, Jilli. I bet Dana could pitch in on the Goth operas.

megan or amych can assist with Baudelaire.

Jilli, I know you won't let me down when I get to Top Ten Goth Makeup Items Which Are No Longer Available.

Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:27:08 am PDT #6463 of 28374

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Also a book of poetry titled Flowers of Evil should be a well spring.

For extra Goth pretentous points, no using the English translation. Stick with the original French. (It was a ... thing in live-action vampire games for certain people who thought they were Sensitive Artistic Types to lurk at the fringes of the game and whisper poems from that book, in French.)

For Poe, I vote Lenore or The Raven.

Kat - Jun 20, 2008 9:28:03 am PDT #6464 of 28374

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Annabel Lee would be my Poe rec.

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:28:44 am PDT #6465 of 28374

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

(It was a ... thing in live-action vampire games for certain people who thought they were Sensitive Artistic Types to lurk at the fringes of the game and whisper poems from that book, in French.)

They get plus points for adding atmosphere, though. And you can't dock them pretention points in a goth vampire masquerade.

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