Reasons not to have a face lift.
science fiction seems more about following a character rather than exploring an idea in metaphor. Any ideas why?
I'm not sure I 100% agree with the premise, but I will say, the 'idea' SF from the 50s also tends -- from my exposire to the "greats" of that era -- to have been written more drily than an advanced calculus book. So, if the New Wave is responsible for the shift in writing ability, in addition to the different trend in subject matter, then I can do nothing but thank the New Wave.
Actually, you know, the 50s weren't so much with the metaphor, were they? Just exploring the idea. Exactly what kinds of examples are you talking about, when you say "idea in metaphor" vs. character-based stories?
God! Also like something she would put in her books.(swallowing inappropriate laughter) Will Philip Roth die of priapism following a viagra accident?
Snerk on the PR.
It's a weirdly ironic death. Not laughing at it, but it is ironic.
I really don't mean anything by it. It is kind of art imitates life, though.
It's creepy, I think - I sympathise with anyone dying of anaphylaxis, since I am at all times a candidate for that, but, well, ironic, yes indeed.
Sounds like a book that Gus could have written.
Well sounds like something Gus should have read.
Too sad about Olivia Goldsmith. "First Wives Club" was a much better book than the movie. Yes, the irony .. also sad.
Exactly what kinds of examples are you talking about, when you say "idea in metaphor" vs. character-based stories?
Yes, please. This question.
The part that horrifies me is that one of the obits said she was gearing up for two book releases this spring. Which makes me think she was getting the face-lift as a tune-up for her book tour.
A friend of a friend took Phen-Fen (say that three times fast) before going on a book tour to promote her first book. She got the fatal side effect. Pfeh.
And just think, all I do is shoot myself up with human interferon once a week.
One of goldsmith's books was about someone who underwnet massive amounts of body 'improvement ' surgery -- it may beo one I couldn't finish...
Here it i s flavor of the month . I still don't remember if I finished it.
