Seriously, dude, you should read that essay! You would love her. You could just skim the names of people you don't already know about. It's what I do. Because I am bad.
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
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Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 5:08:28 pm PST #746 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Connie Neil - Mar 07, 2003 5:08:56 pm PST #747 of 10001
brillig
Where would I find this essay?
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 5:10:29 pm PST #748 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Uh, I don't know. Lemme google a line from deep within it and see if it's reproduced online anywhere.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 5:15:54 pm PST #749 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Connie Neil - Mar 07, 2003 5:16:36 pm PST #750 of 10001
brillig
Bookmarked for easy reading when I get home. Thank you, La Liz.
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 5:35:19 pm PST #751 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
And I have never in my life read Susan Sontag. Met her once (when the earth was still cooling) and knew that while I might agree with her on a lot of stuff, her writing was almost cert-guaranteed to drive me batshit.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 5:50:52 pm PST #752 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I love her novels.
They make me squeal.
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 5:52:17 pm PST #753 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Amending: I've read a few of her essays (New Yorker? One of those, anyway). It's possible her sensibilities are, er, too East Coast to make me squeal.
I don't play well with with Erica Jong, either. Me and the new York thang, as is al ready known to some, we do not cohere.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 5:56:39 pm PST #754 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Her novels are so just... filled with things. And her command of narration, and irony, make me go all gushy.
She's said she still thinks of herself as primarily a novelist.
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 6:00:07 pm PST #755 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I think it's the irony thing; I lost my taste for it an awfully long time ago, after I discovered that for me (real-world me), it was a killer and something to be avoided.
So I stopped liking reading it, and I started mistrusting people who were essentially purely ironic. That's just me. It's not a mask that I want to peer behind, mostly.