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624. alistairconnor - 5/3/2006 12:03:15 PM Well let me check my diary ...
... second weekend in June is free.
But maybe we need a dedicated thread for this subject?
... Or to stay on topic, I could write a book about it. Chapter One : Raphaëlle. Chapter Two : Finola. 625. Macnas - 5/3/2006 12:16:44 PM Finola = Fionnuala
We should rename this thread as "Get Conner Fixed Up".
Or we could still call it Fiction.. 626. alistairconnor - 5/3/2006 1:21:30 PM What you reckon Feet, there might be a niche for it :
A man's delayed adolescence, age 45. Going through the learning curve of courtship, romance, love, rejection; with a mix of wide-eyed wonder and self-mocking philosophy. And sex. Lots of sex.
Middle-aged sex, of course. Flabby bellies, wobbly bottoms.
... bit of a small niche eh? 627. judithathome - 5/3/2006 3:48:29 PM This is a fiction thread created for entertainment. Not for some heckler in desperate need of attention.
Well, you hit the mark there, Webbie...that certainly entertained me!
I haven't noticed a tremendous amount of fiction in here from you lately but some chat that could qualify as entertainment. I thought we were all welcome to chip in but evidently not. I'll try to rustle up a little story later on, more in keeping with the purpose of the thread. If that's okay.... 628. Jenerator - 5/3/2006 4:51:22 PM A man's delayed adolescence, age 45. Going through the learning curve of courtship, romance, love, rejection; with a mix of wide-eyed wonder and self-mocking philosophy. And sex. Lots of sex.
The more important question is, do you look like Paco? 629. webfeet - 5/3/2006 6:39:49 PM There's bad news. Maurice might be gay. It's not confirmed--but there is strong reason to suspect--not married, idolizes his mother--that I'm not his type. 630. webfeet - 5/3/2006 6:43:08 PM What have I started? This is starting to feel like Match.com.
If he would shave and shower every other week, Alistair would be considered handsome. So you can tell Fionnula that a frenchified Teddy kazinksy, some peculiar warlock with long toenails and braided nostril hair does not await her in some remote chalet in France. 631. webfeet - 5/3/2006 6:47:32 PM Go ahead, squawk away Judith. Write, post, do whatever you like. You're like a pigeon flying after morsels of conversation. I'll throw you some crumbs anytime you like. 632. alistairConnor - 5/3/2006 7:48:20 PM Wait a minute. I just remembered that I am the, the putative host of this thread. And I would like to point out that Judith will always be welcome here, as long as I am in charge.
(... would be welcome here, if I was in charge?) 633. webfeet - 5/3/2006 8:07:14 PM Of course you are in charge. Who would dare point out otherwise?
If you want disruptive and personal attacks spamming a thread intended for fiction or for telling stories tall and short, then let's turn this into the Fiction Inferno.
634. Adam Selene - 5/3/2006 8:48:35 PM "... if I were in charge." Present subjunctive tense. Said the grammer policeman. :) 635. Jenerator - 5/3/2006 10:19:57 PM grammar policeman
...scurries off... 636. Jenerator - 5/3/2006 10:23:36 PM Alistair,
Judith's insinuations were disruptive and argumentative. No one is saying she should be banned, we're just hoping she'll shoot her rubberbands elsewhere.
And so are you going to start showering so that maybe you could meet our friends?
;-) 637. alistairConnor - 5/3/2006 10:50:28 PM Hey listen, I shaved this weekend, by special request. So anything's possible, given the motivation.
I could do with a sartorial consultant. And a sponsor. 638. webfeet - 5/4/2006 3:01:55 PM For what it's worth and I don't give a damn who'se putatively in charge, in charge or otherwise, I come here to exchange ideas and be a little playful. There's got to be a safe haven from that kind of boring 'banter'. I was hoping this would be it.
Jen--we should compile a summer reading list. I can't tell you what I'm reading now because I'm not committed to any one book, I've taken a peculiar interest in Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel" and the work of other American writers lately, Edith Wharton and others. But I can tell you who I'd like to read, and I think I've mentioned him before when "Cloud Atlas" was published.
No longer just a rising star, David Mitchell is the rockstar of the literary world-- at least on the other side of the Atlantic where people read more than the latest version of 'Opal Mehta'.
Remarkably, Time Magazine reviewed his new book "Black Swan Green" a week or so ago where he is referred to as the "most prodigiously daring and imaginative writer in Britan." He's hard to keep up with, but you will be blown away. 639. alistairconnor - 5/4/2006 5:21:13 PM I'm reading Arundhati Roy, the God of small things. Rather disappointing so far, I find her too clever by about two-thirds.
Next up : Hanif Kureishi, Love in a blue time. 640. Jenerator - 5/5/2006 2:44:54 AM webfeet,
I am "reading" about six books - I want something that hooks me in and makes me want to stay up all night, though.
Maybe we should look at Black Swan Green?
641. webfeet - 5/5/2006 5:08:05 AM I don't know, Jen. When bumping smack into blinding genius, most people sputter the usual comparisons to Joyce so the receiving party usually nods and says, "Oh, right. Joyce."
In this case, he really is ahem, Joycean; he has an otherworldly ability to assume the consciousness of people so remote and bizarre and interweave their lives with a narrative that kind of expands like an accordion, with different dialects and vocabulary he's just made up thrown in, opening wider and wider then you wonder, is it ever going to close?
And then he somehow goes backwards and closes it in the opposite direction in Cloud Atlas--which is a remarkable read. And very funny.
So why am I hedging about reading Black Swan Green? Because it's an undertaking. At least Cloud Atlas was. But why not? I just hope I'm fit. 642. webfeet - 5/5/2006 5:15:16 AM What you reckon Feet, there might be a niche for it
Don Quixote comes to mind, only you haven't completely disintegrated, teddy.
I have trouble with the 'wide-eyed and wonder' part. Then again, no-one should trust a first person narrator especially if they live in a remote chalet in a cow pasture.
643. webfeet - 5/5/2006 5:16:37 AM ..in france.
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