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Cheer up, Wabbit!

Yeah, well …that's fiction for you.

Someone will object to my contributing to a thread already old, but I don't care, Novella. I recently saw Jack Nicholson in an ancient black and white movie on community TV, about vampires or something. He was about twenty. I kept thinking I know that face -- who is that guy? Then it dawned...

Terrorists of Irustan Hello, BulldozerGirl. Didn't you say quite the opposite of this somewhere else? (because it's just full of crap and the author was too afraid to say she's talking about an Islamic society, so she made it into a sci-fi book.) And somewhere else that you don't read...

Thank you, Wabbit. Here, for what it’s worth, is another passage, detailing incident referred to in opening of the one above. It is written in this peculiar future tense (I don’t know if this might be irritating to the reader) for a purpose: it is a sort of taste of things to come later in...

Recently finished Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Found it price tagged a dollar, so bought it, hoping to gain some insight on the Arab disposition and mind set, interested to know something about those things, the world being the way it is today. Was not disappointed. Lawrence expresses himself...

Not a story, this; just a piece of prose. From a longer piece about a child who, by virtue of some strange magic she owns, brings about a change in the mood and fortune of everyone with whom she comes in contact. AN OLD MAN IN AN UNFAMILIAR CITY was as unhappy the day he met Wenjijaalen...

I don't find it distant or cold. A worthwhile little peice, I think, far more so than plenty of stuff I've paid to read. In its few paragraphs we come to know the character. We don't necessarily like him, but can empathise with. Impact of final paragraph effective (pun intended or not)...

Ho! Ho! Ho! *Waves from the sky*

State what? Another baseless opinion?

…bored should do something different -- yes, like read a different book. So we're agreed on that. I am not bagging (or in your language canning) Dickens, as can be seen in my earlier post. I do find his writing style, his way of presenting a story, rather dull, but concede that it was fresh and...

Purpose a principal? Now who could disagree with that?

Now that I'm in my room I can add to boring: self-indulgent, half-baked, embarassingly juvenile, almost infantile. It reads like one of those true romance novels mixed uneasily with a bit of machismo. Hemmingway at his worst. The Old Man and the Sea was better, but still with too much macho...

No, true at first, THIS is boring: that she was lifted off the ground, tight against him, and he felt her trembling and then her lips were on his throat, and then he put her down and said, "Maria, oh, my Maria." Then he said, "Where should we go?" She did not say anything but slipped her...

Whaddayaknow, I actually agree with something. Well, it's not the first time really, and come to think of it I can only agree here with provisos. Hemmingway, to me, is no more than a thinking man's (not women's, I hope) Cussler. Some of his short stories were effective -- he broke new ground...

I don't tell lies.

If I might move away from debate about what they might mean, and back to quotations themselves, here's one I remember. Nelson Muntz, replying to Lisa, she reading the NUKE THE WHALES poster on his wall ("Do you really want to nuke the whales?") "Dhuu … gotta nuke somethin'…"

Who picked on Bobby? If anyone did, was it he who implied Bobby can't take care of himself? Adjusted? Who by? Peanut brittle? What are you on about?

Yes. As a long-time admirer of Chomsky, and one who approves of Moore but finds him sometime a bit irritating, I agree with everything punk says, by and large. Everyone should read Chomsky, but of course not everyone reads. Moore comes to them in pictures, much easier for them to digest. Punk's...

Yes, I was afraid they might be. I wonder what they'll call croissants, when they make them square.