Heh. Jen's going to arrive from her flight, check into the board and be very pissed she wasn't around for this conversation.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
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 - Jun 20, 2008 10:10:26 am PDT #6495 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sj - Jun 20, 2008 10:11:36 am PDT #6496 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Hec, I have an anthology of poetry also called Acquainted with the Night that might qualify as Gothy.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 10:14:11 am PDT #6497 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What else is in that, sj?
Just reading the setup for Lucia di Lammermoor sounds goth as all get out:
The story concerns a feud between two families, the Ashtons and the Ravenswoods. When the opera begins, the Ashtons are in the ascendancy and have taken possession of Ravenswood Castle, the ancestral home of their rivals. Edgardo (Sir Edgar), Master of Ravenswood and last surviving member of his family, has been forced to live in a lonely tower by the sea, known as the Wolf's Crag.
Oooh, and it ends with a suicide in a graveyard.
sj - Jun 20, 2008 10:20:14 am PDT #6498 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
What else is in that, sj?
I just got in, let me go check.
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:25:48 am PDT #6499 of 28378
hip deep in pie
How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
last toast
here’s to the ruin of this house to the villainies we do to our coupled severance here’s to you
to the lies lips issue forth to the cold weather of your eyes to the world’s being dumb and coarse to the god who let us die
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 10:27:02 am PDT #6500 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
Russians know how to bring the bleak.
sj - Jun 20, 2008 10:27:16 am PDT #6501 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There's about a hundred poems in here, so I'm not going to list it all. Some examples are, "One Night" by Umberto Saba, "Night of Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud, "Ballad of One Doomed to Die" by Frederico Garcia Lorca, and "The Cross of Snow" by Longfellow.
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:31:46 am PDT #6502 of 28378
hip deep in pie
Russians know how to bring the bleak.
I do think she is bleak more than goth. But she has some great dark love poems. None of which I can find online.
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:33:48 am PDT #6503 of 28378
hip deep in pie
Rimbaud! Of course!
Another by Anna:
Wild honey has the scent of freedom, dust--of a ray of sun, a girl's mouth--of a violet, and gold--has no perfume.Watery--the mignonette, and like an apple--love, but we have found out forever that blood smells only of blood.
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2008 10:45:33 am PDT #6504 of 28378
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Just reading the setup for Lucia di Lammermoor sounds goth as all get out:
's why I recommended it. I might not *be* goth, but I know it when I see it.