Posts by Deborah
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I may not be able to make it, because we’re abandoning our children to their grandparents' care and flying out to London the next day, but if I do, I’m thinking my usual winter garb of jeans, merino top and sensible shoes. Plus my eldest daughter.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to linger,
@ Linger - Honour, glory and admiration all yours! Middlemarch is full of pithy observations like this one. It has stuck in my mind ever since I first read it. And yes, JLM - Mary Garth - everyone's favourite.
Right. Back to lying politicians. Though I think RB should use the quote from Middlemarch on the show.
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I think that many pollies actually believe that we can't see through their obfuscations and evasions.
She sat to-night revolving, as she was wont, the scenes of the day, her lips often curling with amusement at the oddities to which her fancy added fresh drollery: people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.
(Also, honour and glory and admiration to Craig if he can identify the source of that quote. Or to anyone else of course, 'though I'm guessing that bookish types might have the best chance.)
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Well-known political commentator David Farrar
Does anyone have the dead tree version? In the on-line version, you can click through to his disclosure statement where the information about working for the National party is down the page a bit, but I'm wondering what kind of disclosure there is in the print version.
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Personally, though, I think all authors who get pissy about fanfic need to engage in some bridge-building. You put the story out there, people have opinions, people have imaginations;
Fanfic seems particularly apt for Tolkien, who was afterall concerned that there weren't enough fairy tales in England, and he set out to develop a fictional world, partly as background for his made-up languages, and he hoped that people would use his tales as the basis for developing more myths and legends and stories.
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I think Islander just saw you and raised you one, Craig.
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Done, and very happy to have been able to do so.
I'm loving watching so many people being so pleased to be able to make a contribution.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Jackie Clark,
@Jackie, and anyone else who is interested..
Take a look: The Stroppery: tea, crumpets and fucking the patriarchy
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Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to recordari,
No, this is opera.
But really, if it's music that you like, then sucks yaboo to what anyone else says about it.
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Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Oh, Jackie. How wretched for your friend.