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Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'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 - Jul 25, 2005 1:08:49 pm PDT #8532 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Kathy A - Jul 25, 2005 1:32:31 pm PDT #8535 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has a lot about both the GoF movie and HBP, including casting ideas for the movie adaptation of HBP. Love the suggestions-- Brian Cox as Rufus Scrimgeour, Bob Hoskins as Horace Slughorn, Peter O'Toole as Marvolo Gaunt, Rhys Ifans as Morfin Gaunt, Helena Bonham Carter as Merope Gaunt, and Daniel Day-Lewis as Fenrir Greyback .
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 2:09:21 pm PDT #8536 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Rhys Ifans is a bloody genius suggestion.
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 2:09:39 pm PDT #8537 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I have two HP6 questions, now that I am finally done reading it.
1) ita, do you still need someone to lend it to you, and can you wait until this weekend?
2) I did a lot of skimming. Am I the only one who thought that Harry might be one of the Horcruxes (sp?). That could explain how Harry survived Voldemorte's attack, and how he became a parseltongue and why the sorting hat thought about putting him in Slytherin. I know most of the Horcruxes were objects, but if one of them might be a snake, why not another living creature ?
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 2:12:03 pm PDT #8538 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Perkins, I snapped and bought it to read on the flight back from Montreal. So if anyone wants a copy of HP6 with the British kids cover, it's going for a very nominal ... okay, never mind.
Still, it was the perfect length for the trip home.
Dana - Jul 25, 2005 2:12:19 pm PDT #8539 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Perkins:
Anne W. "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" Jul 21, 2005 12:36:48 pm PDT
DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 2:13:17 pm PDT #8540 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Perkins as to (2) many people are speculating that Harry's scar is a Horcrux
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 2:14:12 pm PDT #8541 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ah. Thanks. I haven't read many LJs, and I missed Anne's post.
I think we are all right.