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.
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
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."
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."
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.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 2:15:35 pm PDT #8542 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It would be a great idea -- and it'd also explain how Harry was able to see into Voldie's stuff. Uhhh -- what was the plan for getting rid of the bits of his soul, again?