Disquieting in its resonance. Though I don't really believe...well, maybe that's a thought best expressed somewhere else.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 11:44:37 am PST #6949 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Strix - Jan 26, 2005 12:00:24 pm PST #6950 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Now I"m curious, Erika.
erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 12:18:31 pm PST #6951 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't really believe Bush is for real. I think that is the appearance of conviction. But how does heathen me know? Apart from that, color me Roman.
Strix - Jan 26, 2005 12:21:24 pm PST #6952 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think the conviction is real. BUT I don't think he's ever thought about religion at all; I think he seized it as an absolute idea, a my way or the highway approach.
dcp - Jan 26, 2005 1:16:05 pm PST #6953 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
St. Brighid looks a lot like the Celtic goddess who preceded her.
There was a very well done bit about this in The Book of Kells by R. A. MacAvoy
erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 1:18:53 pm PST #6954 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
OK, Erin, you said it better. I'm not sure if I should say "Thank you," or "Stop it!"
Jim - Jan 27, 2005 3:51:56 am PST #6955 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
There's also interestin stuff about this in Melvyn Bragg's Credo , which I've just finished and throughly recommend to anyone who liked The Book Of Kells - it's about St's Wilfred, Cuthbert and Bega in 7th Centrury Northumberland. And yes, it is by that Melvyn Bragg.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 2:10:48 pm PST #6956 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Has anybody read The Family Trade by Charles Stoss? Amazon says I want it.
Calli - Jan 28, 2005 11:02:59 am PST #6957 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Shakespeare fits in literary, right? As does Gorey, of course. So here are The Gashlyspeare Tinies.
A sample:
A is for Antigonus, lunch for a bear
B is for Banquo (but not for his heir)
Daisy Jane - Jan 28, 2005 11:46:04 am PST #6958 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Love it!!! Thanks Calli. I want illustrations now!