Now I"m curious, Erika.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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."
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
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!
sumi - Jan 28, 2005 12:01:47 pm PST #6959 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I'm meandering through my subscriptions over at Readerville. I haven't been in there since early November.
Anyway, I'm in a thread where they're talking about their talking about The Time Traveller's Wife and somebody commented, "A punk librarian. That's my dream date!" and I suddenly realized that I may have met the guy the author based Henry on. Well, possibly. When I took a course on Illuminated Manuscripts in Graduate School we went to the Newberry to see some and there was definitely a punk librarian working with the illuminated mss. I suppose "met" is rather strong -- he was the guy who presented the books to our class.