deconstructionism: A moderately successful attempt by the French to avenge the loss of Paris as the global center of literature.
Bwah!
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Tom Scola - Oct 17, 2008 2:36:25 am PDT #7777 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Toddson - Oct 17, 2008 4:08:45 am PDT #7778 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Funny. Another, a review from Mrs. Giggles of a fantasy/erotic ... novel? "... is like the pornographic movie version of Walt Disney's Pocahontas, only with added talking animals - many of them, all of them thankfully incapable of singing - as well as and various engorged body parts doing things that will never be done in a Walt Disney cartoon."
Polter-Cow - Oct 17, 2008 4:38:12 am PDT #7779 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 6:17:17 am PDT #7780 of 28414
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yesterday's Jeopardy had a category of Unfinished Hugo Award Winning Titles--you had to fill in the blank. I missed a few of the "easier" clues (Asimov's "A ____ with Rama," for example), but got the two at the bottom of the category: Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must ____", which no one knew, and Miller's "A ____ for Liebowitz", which is one of my favorite books ever and which I was happy to see the champ get correct.
Typo Boy - Oct 17, 2008 7:51:32 am PDT #7781 of 28414
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Wasn't A Rendevous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke, not Asimov?
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 8:07:40 am PDT #7782 of 28414
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yeah, that might have been it. All I knew was I didn't know it!
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2008 8:08:14 am PDT #7783 of 28414
brillig
"Rendezvous with Rama"! With the regularly scheduled end-of-mission orgy! Possibly not the main thing Clarke wanted me to take from the story, but I was young and prurient.
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 8:08:49 am PDT #7784 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Interesting article in The New Yorker about artistic prodigies vs. late bloomers. [link]
Ha!
Leaving it up just because it's funny.
Try this one- the article is Late Bloomers by Malcolm Gladwell.
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2008 8:09:47 am PDT #7785 of 28414
brillig
Content not found on that link, Barb, but you've got to love The New Yorker's error message
DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 8:15:46 am PDT #7786 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And in case you were wondering what were the scholarly consensus picks for the most important American poems of the 20th century, they are:
But Galenson simply wanted to poll a broad cross-section of literary scholars about which poems they felt were the most important in the American canon. The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William Carlos Williams’s “Red Wheelbarrow,” Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife,” Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” Frost’s “Mending Wall,” Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” and Williams’s “The Dance.”
Though, frankly, that list shows the continued split of academy v. beat era and more rightly would probably include poems by Ginsberg, Creeley and Ashberry.