According to Wikipedia, O Henry wrote an Elsie parody story.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
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Tom Scola - Mar 15, 2009 12:37:25 pm PDT #3611 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
WindSparrow - Mar 15, 2009 1:18:12 pm PDT #3612 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
And here is a link to the Elsie of O Henry: [link]
vw bug - Mar 15, 2009 1:21:02 pm PDT #3613 of 30000
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I am so mean, but he is SO cute! [link]
Hil R. - Mar 15, 2009 2:24:42 pm PDT #3614 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So, Elsie has just cried herself into some sort of sickness because her father won't kiss or hug her until she promises to submit entirely to his will. (This is STILL about her not reading the novel on a Sunday. And a bunch of the adults in the book have backed her up on this.)
He says he doesn't want a daughter with these "perverse" religious ideas, because if she won't read a novel on a Sunday when she's eight, that might mean she won't go to a ball or the opera when she's older, and he doesn't want a child who won't go to a ball or the opera.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 2:24:13 pm PDT #3615 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm looking forward to reading the O'Henry parody when I get home from work.
Hil R. - Mar 15, 2009 2:35:31 pm PDT #3616 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The past 30 pages or so have been Elsie's father taking away one thing after another and then telling her that she'll get it all back if she agrees that she will always obey him. She (tearfully, of course) responses that she will always obey him unless he tells her to break a commandment, and he says that's not good enough. This same scene has played out like five times already.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 2:40:29 pm PDT #3617 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Doesn't she break a commandment every time she disobeys him? Did Jesus tell her the sabbath was more important than her father? Maybe these books were designed for Christians as a kind of "if you thought you had trouble being like Christ."
Hil R. - Mar 15, 2009 2:43:14 pm PDT #3618 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Did Jesus tell her the sabbath was more important than her father?
Yes. I can't find the quote right now, but she cited some verse at him that said almost exactly that -- that if your parents' word contradicts Jesus', then you follow Jesus.
omnis_audis - Mar 15, 2009 2:46:40 pm PDT #3619 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
because if she won't read a novel on a SundayHuh, I always thought the bible was a novel.
:: looks for lighting to strike the blasphemer ::
Calli - Mar 15, 2009 2:47:35 pm PDT #3620 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
did Jesus tell her the sabbath was more important than her father?
Essentially.
King James Version (Luke 12:51-53) 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.