Wrod. Story about writing and Hebrew...Philip Roth, an author well known for getting characters into...compromising sexual positions, visited Israel once, and did not know very much at all. His translator taught him the words for boy and girl and said that should be a good start for him.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Feb 19, 2004 4:41:29 am PST #3385 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
deborah grabien - Feb 19, 2004 8:32:38 am PST #3386 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
His translator taught him the words for boy and girl and said that should be a good start for him.
BWAH! That's right, Roth knew Yiddish but not Hebrew. I wonder if someone taught him the word for "breast"?
§ ita § - Feb 19, 2004 8:47:56 am PST #3387 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Shedayim!
Nilly - Feb 19, 2004 8:52:52 am PST #3388 of 10001
Swouncing
And ita manages to make me blush like a blushing thing and throw cookie-crumbs all over the keyboard in the span of 4 posts. That's a kind of posting that takes some real skills (mad skilz, even) t /Natter
erikaj - Feb 19, 2004 8:55:17 am PST #3389 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Probably. Wouldn't you? (He knew just a speck of Hebrew dating back to getting kicked out of Bar mitzvah class for being a smart-aleck.)Wouldn't want to leave him mute or anything...I don't know whether I'm embarrassed or gratified that his mammary descriptive powers have not slipped in the slightest.I suppose I look at it like a porny "Reader's Digest"...for the timeless factor...no matter what I've been doing, there's Philip, checking out some woman's decolletage. Which of course has made me picture the article "I am Philip's Schlong"(Somewhere in Conneticut, a certain author is feeling proud for no good reason, aifg)
Amy - Feb 20, 2004 8:38:10 am PST #3390 of 10001
Because books.
Deena -- Thanks!
Deborah -- The story sounds yummy. I love gothic-y stuff. Give me a good haunting any day.
deborah grabien - Feb 20, 2004 6:31:37 pm PST #3391 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
AmyLiz, you like hauntings?
Check me out, ma'am:
and read the synopsis for "Weaver", book currently out. I am all about the classic ghost stories.
(This next bit should probably go in Literary, but I gotta say it: Walter Mosley is hot.)
erikaj - Feb 21, 2004 10:00:06 am PST #3392 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Heh. My sister-wife has her priorities in the right place(for the benefit of the new person, my fanfic has led us into a certain "understanding"..we don't really live on a compound.Buffista group "marriage" is quite common...I think they love me for my Munchkin, but...marriages have been founded on less)
deborah grabien - Feb 21, 2004 10:10:03 am PST #3393 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hee! Yup, erika and Kat Perez and I are all united in our mutual adoration and fanficcery. My husband says he's both pleased and amused to be the group's virtual trophy husband and roadie...
I finished my "Matty" chapter segment this morning. Yay me?
Deena - Feb 21, 2004 10:29:51 am PST #3394 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Yay you, Deb!