She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.

Willow ,'Help'


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."


Topic!Cindy - Jul 25, 2005 12:32:13 pm PDT #8525 of 10002
What is even happening?

You can push him over to ginger so easily.
Oh, yes. I think he has at least one foot in, really.


Jars - Jul 25, 2005 12:41:53 pm PDT #8526 of 10002

Paul Bettany is so a ginge. Ditto Jamie Bamber, from that space show I don't watch, but also that gay boat show I did watch.


sumi - Jul 25, 2005 12:43:15 pm PDT #8527 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Jamie Bamber would make a good Charlie Weasley too.


Fay - Jul 25, 2005 12:52:59 pm PDT #8528 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Bill Weasley is already Damian Lewis in the world of me.

Damn. If those other Weasleys were played by Jamie Bamber and Paul Bettany and Damian Lewis...

Damn.

The Weasleycest would be Out. Of. Control.


P.M. Marc - Jul 25, 2005 1:02:07 pm PDT #8529 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

I have no comments on the books, I just want to see more ginger men.

So, umm, please continue casting Weasleys.


erikaj - Jul 25, 2005 1:02:44 pm PDT #8530 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Hec, what do you mean when you say prose is "decadent"?


Nutty - Jul 25, 2005 1:08:04 pm PDT #8531 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Not Hec, but when I say that I mean the prose is practically dripping with gleeful excess of descriptive verbiage.

Or else that it is told in such a cynical voice that everything is shot through with experience and amusement.

Actually, usually both, or anyway the former is irritating without the latter as leavening.


erikaj - Jul 25, 2005 1:08:49 pm PDT #8532 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

huh.


DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 1:08:53 pm PDT #8533 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hec, what do you mean when you say prose is "decadent"?

I'm specifically referring to the fin de siecle era, the aesthetes and French symbolists.

Decadence - Wikipedia has a quick summary.

Ooh look - The Decadent Generation.


DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 1:09:37 pm PDT #8534 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Not Hec, but when I say that I mean the prose is practically dripping with gleeful excess of descriptive verbiage.

This would be the aesthete influence. The lapidary prose style.

Or else that it is told in such a cynical voice that everything is shot through with experience and amusement.

People like Baudelaire, Wilde, Huysmans, Walter Pater. The Pre-Raphaelites precede it but definitely had a similar lotus-eater vibe.