Hee! And how hard am I laughing that when I went back to the home page, the quote that generated for me was William's bad poem?
Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.
Gunn ,'Underneath'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Barb - Nov 13, 2008 4:40:50 pm PST #1093 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Liese S. - Nov 13, 2008 5:10:13 pm PST #1094 of 6690
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That's a great paragraph.
And I can't wait until Jilli's book comes out.
Typo Boy - Nov 13, 2008 6:18:43 pm PST #1095 of 6690
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.
James M. Cain would have preferred writing about food to writing Noir fiction. He did produce at least one cookbook to the despair of his agent who complained about how little profit that yielded compared to spending the same time producing a novel.
Toddson - Nov 14, 2008 4:23:39 am PST #1096 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Barb, there's always food porn.
Barb - Nov 14, 2008 6:07:30 am PST #1097 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
And y'all wonder why I despair, sometimes...
Vanitha Sankaran's WATERMARK set in 1320 in Narbonne, France, when church-controlled parchment made paper making a near-heresy, told by a young albino mute woman the literate daughter of a papermaker imprisoned when the inquisition finds her using paper to write troubadour poetry about courtly love, to Lucia Macro at Avon, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Literate albino mutes.
Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2008 6:15:46 am PST #1098 of 6690
brillig
Literate albino mutes.
Well, they're terribly underrepresented in literature, and they have an important tale to tell. Like how the thriving papermaking industries of France were being harrassed in the 1300s and a teacher was found who was willing to take the disabled daughter of a mere craftsman as a student.
Barb - Nov 14, 2008 6:19:35 am PST #1099 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
True. Everyone deserves a voice.
Amy - Nov 14, 2008 6:24:22 am PST #1100 of 6690
Because books.
Honestly, the story sounds sort of interesting to me, even if the mute girl given a voice through poetry is a little heavy-handed. The albino aspect is probably a step too far.
Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2008 6:27:11 am PST #1101 of 6690
brillig
The problem is, though, that the paper making industry was thriving in that time period, and France was one of the world centers. The church didn't control it, because there were too many civil and business uses for paper.
Sparky1 - Nov 14, 2008 6:31:59 am PST #1102 of 6690
Librarian Warlord
Tangentially: When I was working at Berkeley, one of the 13th C canon law manuscripts (I can't remember country of origin) had a Latin inscription from the scribe, that we loosely translated as: "Here end the Decretals (written) by the hands of Gertrude, who was accustomed to playing with nude people."
The scribe was very unusual in that she was female, and that she gave the church a zinger in mentioning exactly why she was being punished (made to copy the ms).