Here's a different kind of train story. [link]
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Mar 21, 2013 2:38:13 pm PDT #15595 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jesse - Mar 21, 2013 2:48:02 pm PDT #15596 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So is he that kind of guy? That calls out jingoism and then steps in it anyway?
I can't speak to Coates specifically, but I think most people could be "that kind of guy" at least on occasion.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2013 2:49:28 pm PDT #15597 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, Coates spends a lot of time laying his personality out there. I was wondering if this is consistent or surprising.
bon bon - Mar 21, 2013 3:04:47 pm PDT #15598 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
...are you the kind of person that draws broad conclusions about personality from one ambiguous comment written subsequent to a rattling experience? I mean, on the list of super patriots, I don't think Coates ranks relatively high.
flea - Mar 21, 2013 3:05:40 pm PDT #15599 of 30001
information libertarian
The thing I admire most about Coates is that while he sometimes calls things out and then steps in them anyway, if someone thoughtfully (and correctly) points out what he just stepped in, he will generally think a bit and then agree that the commenter has a point, and apologize for it.
Amy - Mar 21, 2013 3:25:16 pm PDT #15600 of 30001
Because books.
I still don't get what he meant by a "bad nut." If a nut was rotten, you wouldn't have an allergic reaction to it unless you ... were allergic to it, in which case you shouldn't be eating good nuts either.
Consuela - Mar 21, 2013 4:04:07 pm PDT #15601 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Maybe he is allergic to peanuts and was eating walnuts but there was some peanut in there he didn't know about? That sort of thing happens, I expect.
P.M. Marc - Mar 21, 2013 4:08:27 pm PDT #15602 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I suspect he meant a nut of the sort to which he is apparently highly allergic that wasn't supposed to be where it was.
Jessica - Mar 21, 2013 4:11:11 pm PDT #15603 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Right - bad as in "bad nut, why are you in this bag of pretzels!" not bad as in rotten.
[Or more likely "Bad almond, why are you in this bag of peanuts?"]
P.M. Marc - Mar 21, 2013 4:18:26 pm PDT #15604 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am just really, really glad my very favorite American writer survived the nut's sneak attack. He's too important to die, damn it!