Well, I just finished GGK's The Last Light of the Sun. I'm not horribly horribly broken like I usually am at the end of a Kay book, but that sense of longing and wistfulness that he always invokes at the end of a journey is there, just kind of sweet and sad, haunting in the background like music. It's a relief and a disappointment at the same time. It feels like he stayed his hand, but you could tell the strength was there, unexercised. I feel like he wanted to tell more of a story of ordinary people's lives, caught up in fate, then returned to life, so he didn't quite crank the power all the way up. Pretty damned cool.
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
Wash ,'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
JohnSweden - Mar 23, 2004 5:15:30 pm PST #1814 of 10002
I can't even.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2004 5:17:39 pm PST #1815 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That is neither an attempt to rule out anyone else's S
Thank god, because my name would look silly without my S....
Tho' I could switch to Teppy.
deborah grabien - Mar 23, 2004 5:18:19 pm PST #1816 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Pernicketeppy?
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2004 5:22:25 pm PST #1817 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Heh. I love it! Because I *am.* I may have to change my tagline, though I just switched to this one.
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 5:24:15 pm PST #1818 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Go Teppy! I love that. Change your tagline change your tagline change your tagline.
No pressure.
deborah grabien - Mar 23, 2004 5:28:09 pm PST #1819 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(whistling with evil innocence)
Beverly - Mar 23, 2004 7:03:05 pm PST #1820 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I always liked the origin of the word "nickname"--it started out as "an ekename" in Middle English ("eke" meaning "also"), and then the consonant drifted from the article to the noun. Very cool.
Did the same thing happen with "a nincompoop"? That started out "an incompoop," sort of an off-the-rails incompetent?
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 7:06:31 pm PST #1821 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Damn those persnicketey nincompoops and their pronunciation rules.
Katerina Bee - Mar 24, 2004 6:18:09 am PST #1822 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Hey, man: I say that "persnickety" is a perfectly cromulent word. It's no fun to say without the S.
juliana - Mar 24, 2004 6:38:51 am PST #1823 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Gah. This discussion on top my my wrestling-with-Russian-accent woes is making my head spin. Poor haid.
Along that vein, how does everyone pronounce "mature"? American Heritage accept "ma-tyoor", "ma-toor", and "ma-chur". I had no idea.