Agreed. And thanks, Kristin, I'd forgotten the title--and I have it. ...Somewhere here.
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
Willow ,'Sleeper'
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."
Beverly - Dec 02, 2004 10:46:43 am PST #6506 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 10:53:07 am PST #6507 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Every time I try to pick a favorite essay in that book, I end up listing almost all of them. "Nothing New Under the Sun" (in which she gently mocks the concept of plagiarism by footnoting practically every sentence in the essay) and "Marrying Libraries" are up there, though.
Promising to love each other for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health -- even promising to forsake all others -- had been no problem, but it was a good thing the Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything about marrying our libraries and throwing out the duplicates. That would have been a far more solemn vow, one that would probably have caused the wedding to grind to a mortifying halt.
So.True.
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2004 11:00:42 am PST #6508 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything about marrying our libraries and throwing out the duplicates.
We did that before the wedding, actually. Except the "throwing out the duplicates", but believe me, interfiling was irrevocable enough.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2004 11:04:17 am PST #6509 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Note to Stephen King fans: Big Steve will appear on The Daily Show tonight. Be sure to Tivo!
Thanks for the heads up, KB! I was planning on skipping tonight because I'm busy, but I gotta see this.
Connie Neil - Dec 02, 2004 11:16:24 am PST #6510 of 10002
brillig
I like the Fadiman habit of critiquing the menus at restaurants: "They put an S on shrimp to make it plural? Oh, for heaven's sake."
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 11:18:36 am PST #6511 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
"Sometimes I think my tombstone will read, 'She scanned well.'"
Ginger - Dec 02, 2004 11:30:37 am PST #6512 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have a confession to make. I just read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I recognize that many people recommended it, and I bought it when it first came out in trade paperback, but somehow I never got around to it until last week. So I just want to say "Wow" and tell anyone else who has it sitting around on his or her shelves to go read it. My only quibble was with the whole Antarctica thing, which didn't seem to accomplish much, plus the whole dog thing squicked me.
I'm not sure how much it helped that I know a lot about the early comic book illustrators and have met some of them. It does make my failure to have read the book before now more appalling.
I now must go forth and make sure all my friends have read it.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2004 11:43:11 am PST #6513 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
It's really great, isn't it? I read it twice. Also, you might like Jonathan Lethem's "Fortress of Solitude" which reminded me of it, in a small way.
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2004 11:59:12 am PST #6514 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I skimmed the Antarctica section. So did many of my friends. Mea culpa.
Steph L. - Dec 03, 2004 4:29:50 am PST #6515 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My only quibble was with the whole Antarctica thing
I skimmed it, too. Ugh.