No clue.
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 16, 2004 5:27:18 am PST #6644 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:29:23 am PST #6645 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wow. I haven't even heard of that.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 5:31:22 am PST #6646 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's the famousest albino.
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:32:15 am PST #6647 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought that was the guy with the wheelbarrow in The Princess Bride.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 5:33:48 am PST #6648 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Paleface-come-lately, him.
JohnSweden - Dec 16, 2004 5:36:51 am PST #6649 of 10002
I can't even.
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Yup, the Melvinbone. Pretty influential stuff. There's also that "O, Prince" line that starts off Conan the Barbarian.
dcp - Dec 16, 2004 5:43:04 am PST #6650 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
IJS
Jim - Dec 16, 2004 5:47:39 am PST #6651 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
SF/=Fantasy. Otherwise you have to argue with "OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree..." and you lose , bitca.
Jim - Dec 16, 2004 5:48:33 am PST #6652 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Or possibly "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost"
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:49:52 am PST #6653 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's not fantasy, Jim. Dante totally did all that.