t making list of books that are going to the end of the Must Read list
Call me unintellectual, but I think those are all scenes I can miss.
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
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."
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 11:25:30 am PDT #3330 of 10002
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erikaj - Jun 16, 2004 11:27:52 am PDT #3331 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Tep, man, I can't believe I forgot that. Holden was my guy once.(Once I got over "What the Hell has this to do with John Lennon?" of course.) You guys can fake surprise now...
Jen - Jun 16, 2004 11:39:51 am PDT #3332 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Sorry, JohnSweden, I didn't mean to bring up bad memories... I just love those lines so much, I couldn't resist.
joe boucher - Jun 16, 2004 11:43:57 am PDT #3333 of 10002
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
The only contenders are Pantagruel wiping his ass with a live goose
You forgot an even better one from the same book: Gargantua shows his cleverness at an early age by fashioning an asswipe. I once had to translate that chapter, and as I recall, it's much ruder in the original (certainly ruder than the rather gentle translation to which I linked.) Difficult translation, too, since my Larousse didn't have all those words for "asshole". Luckily, Mr. Nadler was there to guide me.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2004 11:47:44 am PDT #3334 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hey, if we're talking literary potty humor, we can't forget The Miller's Tale.
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 11:57:29 am PDT #3335 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I once had to translate that chapter, and as I recall, it's much ruder in the original
Oh, man. Yes. Yes, it really is.
I sat next to my college age sister, about 9 years my senior, working toward her masters in French, as she tore out handfuls of already-fragile red hair and tried to decide whether translating Rabelais would cause her to lose more or less hair than translating Proust.
I don't remember what she decided in the end, but I do remember her reading bits of the Rabelais and muttering "Holy SHIT" under her breath repeatedly as I laughed like a loon.
joe boucher - Jun 16, 2004 11:59:05 am PDT #3336 of 10002
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Hey, if we're talking literary potty humor, we can't forget The Miller's Tale.
Absalom wiped his mouth very dry;
the night was dark as pitch or coal,
and she stuck her hole out the window,
and Absalom got neither better nor worse:
before he knew what he was doing, he passionately
kissed her naked arse with his mouth.
He jumped back and thought that something was wrong,
for he well knew that a woman doesn't have a beard;
he felt something that was all rough and long-haired,
and said, "Damn it, what have I done?"
"Teehee," she said, and slammed the window shut;
and Absalom went off with sorry steps.
(The rest of the tale can be found here.)
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 11:59:22 am PDT #3337 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You forgot an even better one from the same book: Gargantua shows his cleverness at an early age by fashioning an asswipe.
Heh. No, that's the Rabelais I meant. And I had a 50/50 shot at naming the character properly!
Nutty - Jun 16, 2004 12:05:56 pm PDT #3338 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Again I ask, how can you not love that?
Typical man. Takes 20 minutes and a whole newspaper to do his business.
I've just never gotten around to Joyce: that's all. I suppose I'll try him eventually, but I've been kinda busy with 19th C Britain and the US. 20th C Britain hasn't particularly fired my imaginatory brain cells thus far.
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2004 4:06:55 pm PDT #3339 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
We had to read Portrait in high school (it was one of ten books on the summer reading list, and I only got through eight; that was one of the two I missed) and sections of Dubliners in college. I liked the parts of Dubliners that I read, but I never got more than about two pages into Portrait. I keep wanting to try Ullyses, but I haven't gotten a chance yet.