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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. 644. webfeet - 5/5/2006 5:29:57 AM Oh, and the other thing. About the sartorial assistant position that you are looking to fill?
Ill waive the fee, no,no really. I insist. I will merely refer to today's NY TImes style section, their piece on 'second skin' blue jeans that are too tight in all the right or wrong places depending on how right or wrong your physique is. Now don't balk at the price. They run a little steep anywhere from $300 upward. But sex is an investment. Everyone knows that.
That should knock the milkmaids off their chairs, now wouldn't it? 645. Jenerator - 5/5/2006 6:12:27 PM Alistair,
Just think of Webbie and me as Susannah and Trinny - we'll tell you what not to wear.
 646. Jenerator - 5/5/2006 6:13:39 PM Webbie,
Let's start of with something more light and fun - I don't know, something reminscient of Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. (?) 647. alistairConnor - 5/5/2006 10:15:08 PM Sincerely, to please you two, I'll not wear anything. 648. Jenerator - 5/7/2006 12:51:19 AM Well, I went to Barnes and Nobles to buy my son a book he wanted and guess what was on the end-cap nearby? Black Swan Green! It hooked me - buy it Webbie. It's no so genius that it hurts.
Besides, I'll inevitably want to dissect it and it is your fault.
;-) 649. judithathome - 5/7/2006 2:14:19 AM I will merely refer to today's NY TImes style section, their piece on 'second skin' blue jeans that are too tight in all the right or wrong places depending on how right or wrong your physique is. Now don't balk at the price. They run a little steep anywhere from $300 upward. But sex is an investment. Everyone knows that.
Are these anything like the jeans that inspired Karl Lagerfeld to lose weight so he could fit into the jeans? He has named the designer who inspired him but I can't remmember the name...do you know it, Webs? 650. wonkers2 - 5/7/2006 7:01:30 PM Ishmael? C'mon Herm, call him Nate. 651. alistairConnor - 5/7/2006 10:19:35 PM Bjarni, returning from the nearby driftwood fire with a pitch-pot, saw the ship lying there, almost ready for the water, in the early spring sunshine, though mast and gear all lay still in the brown shadowed shed behind him, and he felt a pang of delight at the sight of her. She was so beautiful, the unbroken sweetly-running line of her from stem to soaring stern. She had no dragon head but her carved and freshly-painted stern post ended in a curve that was faintly like a shepherd's crook, or maybe the arched neck of a swan. He had been told that her name, Fionoula, had something to do with a swan - an Irish maiden that had been turned into one, long ago.
That passage came up last night in the book I was reading to my kids - Sword Song, Rosemary Sutcliff's last novel.
She was a huge influence on me, when I was a little boy.
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