We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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."


aurelia - Nov 25, 2023 4:54:05 pm PST #27808 of 28503
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

#2 is taunting me. I just can't quite pull it out of the memory bank.


megan walker - Nov 25, 2023 9:57:25 pm PST #27809 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

#2 is taunting me. I just can't quite pull it out of the memory bank.

An interesting statement given the story.


Toddson - Nov 27, 2023 7:25:25 am PST #27810 of 28503
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm SO looking forward to a new Saint of Steel book. FYI, I recently finished a book about the Royal Wardrobe. I got the e-book on sale and it would have greatly benefitted from illustrations; maybe the hard copy has them. In just reading about various royals' styles, it got to be kind of boring; also, I kept finding historic inaccuracies, which left me sitting there, kind of going, "but, but, but".


dcp - Nov 27, 2023 8:17:54 am PST #27811 of 28503
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I recently came across this video [link] which was delightful, and which led m me to this:

GLOSS
I know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he’s just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.
When life turns sipid and the mind is traught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.
David McCord (1897-1997)
The Oxford Book of American Light Verse

I need help parsing "ceptive" and "sist", please. Any ideas?


meara - Nov 27, 2023 8:39:39 am PST #27812 of 28503

Insist? Perceptive or Deceptive?


-t - Nov 27, 2023 9:06:50 am PST #27813 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Receptive? Agree on "insist"


megan walker - Nov 27, 2023 2:49:34 pm PST #27814 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

The answers to my First Lines challenge: [link]


-t - Nov 27, 2023 3:27:56 pm PST #27815 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

As I suspected, the ones I couldn't get I never would have. But now I want to read some of them


megan walker - Nov 27, 2023 4:01:09 pm PST #27816 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

But now I want to read some of them.

My work here is done I guess.


askye - Dec 04, 2023 8:15:35 am PST #27817 of 28503
Thrive to spite them

I started reading the Murderbot series.for some reason I was confusing it with something else i had read and didn't like. But last night I finally decided to try it. I think I accidentally read an excerpt.

It was a mistake to start it last night I didn't want to go to bed.