I predict that by her submission and true morality her father will end up having a change of heart and will be a better man. So she does get what she wants in the end but only by suffering. Boys take action, girls suffer.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
Scrappy - Mar 13, 2009 4:16:26 pm PDT #3530 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 4:38:05 pm PDT #3531 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm reading this on Project Gutenberg. I just got a server error, in the middle of Elsie and her father arguing faith vs. works! (Elsie, of course is on the side of faith.)
t edit: phew. Server came back. Now I can read Elsie telling everyone how they need to be born again.
Cass - Mar 13, 2009 4:42:08 pm PDT #3532 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Well, I started it out of a sort of morbid curiosity. And now I kind of want to finish it, because it just keeps getting worse, and I just keep wondering what on earth this author will do next.
I am glad I have no such curiosity because it sounds like something I would not enjoy reading. Not even a little bit.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 5:03:22 pm PDT #3533 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This is disturbing. Elsie's father keeps getting upset when she says that she loves Jesus more than she loves him.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 5:05:13 pm PDT #3534 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This book seems like it's more overtly Old Testament than a lot of them, but the underlying message and the intense emotion is the same.
What do you mean by Old Testament?
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 5:46:52 pm PDT #3535 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm also really having trouble figuring out the money in this book. I'm used to things in old books seeming absurdly cheap, but the amounts that people are paying for things here seem like just as much as we'd pay now, if not more.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 6:22:51 pm PDT #3536 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Fourth post in a row? Is everybody else out having lives?
My shoulder is really hurting now. It ended up really painful during PT this morning, and then they used a TENS on me and that brought the pain down, but it's coming back now.
Torque - Mar 13, 2009 6:27:19 pm PDT #3537 of 30000
Bad Wolf
Hil, I have no life either... just me and a bottle of wine.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2009 6:33:31 pm PDT #3538 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I don't even have the wine. Just soy milk, and the creepiest book ever.
Her father's friend, the one she later marries, is visiting at Christmas. When he arrives, he picks her up and kisses her on the cheek.
"'A merry Christmas and a happy New Year!' little Elsie," he said, kissing her on both cheeks. "Now I have caught you figuratively and literally, my little lady, so what are you going to give me, eh?"
"Indeed, sir, I think you've helped yourself to the only thing I have to give at present," she answered with a merry silvery laugh.
"Nay, _give_ me one, little lady," said he, "one such hug and kiss as I dare say your father gets half-a-dozen times in a day."
She gave it very heartily.
"Ah! I wish you were ten years older," he said as he set her down.
"If I had been, you wouldn't have got the kiss," she replied, smiling archly.
"archly"?
Torque - Mar 13, 2009 6:36:24 pm PDT #3539 of 30000
Bad Wolf
creepy indeed
Is it better to drink alone at home or at a bar? Seems to be my holy grail question