For me it definitely predated the blue screen.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
brenda m - Dec 15, 2004 2:49:59 pm PST #6612 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
DavidS - Dec 15, 2004 2:53:19 pm PST #6613 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When did you read it?
1986. It's only bugged me on re-reading.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 2:54:33 pm PST #6614 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does the lack of submachine guns in the Iliad bother you too, Mr. Picky?
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2004 2:56:41 pm PST #6615 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Think how much shorter it would be with submachine guns!
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 2:58:16 pm PST #6616 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But I don't think they'd get to still wear skirts, and I'm not willing to make that tradeoff.
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2004 3:06:58 pm PST #6617 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
If the Black Watch wore kilts to WWI (and they did), I think you're covered.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 3:08:27 pm PST #6618 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay. Guns it is!
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2004 3:11:22 pm PST #6619 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It was gays, skirts, and guns that made this country great!
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2004 3:33:54 pm PST #6620 of 10002
brillig
Do not mess with the Little Old Ladies from Hell. Ask the Germans.
Jesse - Dec 15, 2004 4:16:22 pm PST #6621 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not a book, but still literary, and just vicariously exciting: My friend's fiance had a piece accepted for The Sun's Readers Write section!