Well, Coates spends a lot of time laying his personality out there. I was wondering if this is consistent or surprising.
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§ ita § - Mar 21, 2013 2:49:28 pm PDT #15597 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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!
Kat - Mar 21, 2013 4:38:05 pm PDT #15605 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
flea, my grant writing metaphor would be finding shoes -- there's the fit part, then the appropriate to the purpose -- snow boots for the beach, or running shoes for a formal wedding do not meet the purpose and then finding a high quality pair without obvious flaws and errors.
But that's because I like my metaphors weird and not super obvious.
I am teaching a unit on style analysis using Tim Burton films. I had an argument with my students that Nightmare Before Christmas, while written by Burton, is not completely his. There is this lovely scene with Diane Keaton in Edward Scissorhands where she is walking up the steps in the mansion and it looks just like Sally going up that amazing staircase. Who stole from whom, I wonder?
Jesse - Mar 21, 2013 4:40:04 pm PDT #15606 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Except, who's the shopper and who's the shoes? I would say the funder is the shopper, really. The grantwriter is making the shoes.