There is a magic spell for kitchen cleaning , right?
People don't really do it , do they?
sigh
Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Mar 13, 2009 1:32:06 pm PDT #3488 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Laga - Mar 13, 2009 1:36:34 pm PDT #3489 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Scourgify
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 1:40:43 pm PDT #3490 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Can you come do that to my whole house, Laga? I think I've procrastinated as long as I am able.
Laga - Mar 13, 2009 1:44:41 pm PDT #3491 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Alas, I do not have a wand.
Calli - Mar 13, 2009 2:05:46 pm PDT #3492 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Hil, according to wikipedia, the author of the Elsie books, Martha Finley, was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. I don't know what Presbyterianism was like in the 1800s (or, really, what it's like now). But maybe that had an affect on her perspective and writing.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 2:09:07 pm PDT #3493 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, Elsie just spent two hours sitting silently next to her father as he read a book and ignored her. He was punishing her for setting free a rare bird that he's captured. She spent the two hours gazing at him, thinking about how handsome he is and despairing that he would never love her, would never take her upon his knee and caress her. Then he sends her to bed. She stands, waiting for a kiss goodnight, and he says that he won't kiss her, because she'd been naughty. She runs up to her room and breaks down in hysterics.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2009 2:19:29 pm PDT #3494 of 30000
brillig
Yup, cruel father as disappointed God stand-in. When you free the birds you make Baby Jesus cry, and he won't love you anymore.
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 2:30:56 pm PDT #3495 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Jesus, the only thing that could redeem this book at this point is if Elsie ends up smacking that self-centered abusive father and ran off with her inappropriate lover to start a collective somewhere in the delta.
ETA: Also? I think we need a list of little known things that make the Baby Jesus cry.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 2:36:40 pm PDT #3496 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
According to wikipedia, she ends up marrying her father's friend.
I'm still trying to figure out where she lives. The books so far hasn't said anything more specific than "the south," but the internet says North Carolina. The internet also says it takes place in the 1840s, though it was first published in 1867.
Daisy Jane - Mar 13, 2009 2:43:01 pm PDT #3497 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
According to wikipedia, she ends up marrying her father's friend.
Gross.