I sometimes forget that those books aren't firmly ingrained in everyone's consciousness at birth. Like, DH lost our HGTTG towel (movie swag) this morning doing laundry, and didn't understand why I found that so funny.
And boys -- let's watch the swearing.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
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."
Jessica - Jan 24, 2005 4:13:29 pm PST #6925 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Fred Pete - Jan 24, 2005 5:16:45 pm PST #6926 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Can't have my cops bouncing around like Michael Tolliver. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Um, the cop doesn't show up until the 4th book.
P.M. Marc - Jan 24, 2005 5:48:33 pm PST #6927 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Like, DH lost our HGTTG towel (movie swag) this morning doing laundry, and didn't understand why I found that so funny.
If it helps, it made me giggle.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2005 6:05:45 pm PST #6928 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If it helps, it made me giggle.
See? Funny!
Daisy Jane - Jan 24, 2005 7:17:23 pm PST #6929 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Poor guy. He's one of those who just doesn't know where his towel is.
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 24, 2005 10:32:08 pm PST #6930 of 10002
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
"Oh, it's not the Eighties anymore" -a History prof of mine when he found out that only about a quarter of the class had read HGTTG.
Volans - Jan 25, 2005 2:56:57 am PST #6931 of 10002
move out and draw fire
My sister called me last year, all excited to tell me about these books I *must* read. Turned out she meant HHGTG. I was like, "wow, Deb, if I'd thought you'd like it I'd have rec'd it to you 15 years ago." Who knew?
Kristin, Shakespeare After All is not super-dry. Her voice is academic, but not "I must publish" academic, more chatting-after-the-show academic. It helps that she only spends a few pages on each play so you can read it in small, digestible chunks. I've actually been reading it between 1:30 and 3:30 am, since I'm not sleeping anymore, and it doesn't put me to sleep even at that time.
Thing is, I keep wishing for Internet at home because I keep wanting to check some of her assertions: do "travel" and "travail" really have the same root? Do "merchant" and "merchandise" come from the same root as Mercury, the god of commerce?
Or maybe I just need a direct link to Erin's brain.
erikaj - Jan 25, 2005 4:06:32 am PST #6932 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Fred, I forgot there is a cop, yes. And a rodeo. My bad.
Lyra Jane - Jan 25, 2005 5:04:45 am PST #6933 of 10002
Up with the sun
I got a one-volume HHGTtG a few years ago, but have yet to reread it. It'll be a nice surprise when I do, since about all I still remember is the bits about flying, and the restaurant with the cows who want to be eaten.
brenda m - Jan 25, 2005 5:33:49 am PST #6934 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
HHGTtG never did anything for me.