the new books said he wasn't such a great man after all
Monday, 2 March 2009 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtOo, er. My book appears to be out this month. You know, the book the writing and editing of which I've whinged obsessively about for the last several years, and the publication of which will infallibly catapult me to the heights of academic acclaim? (not). Just for nostalgia's sake, have a bunny, because of course I owe it all to the bunny:
I have about a jazillion things to do today, including checking board schedules, retch hurl, so the description of my weekend in Elgin attending weddings will have to wait. In the meantime, have some random linkery to go with the bunny, namely Animal Review's take on snails. I'm particularly tickled by the characterisation of Evolution - "a manic-depressive genius and famously difficult to work with on anything". Word. Explains, among other things, the platypus, also likely to have been dreamed up while Evolution was off its meds.
I have about a jazillion things to do today, including checking board schedules, retch hurl, so the description of my weekend in Elgin attending weddings will have to wait. In the meantime, have some random linkery to go with the bunny, namely Animal Review's take on snails. I'm particularly tickled by the characterisation of Evolution - "a manic-depressive genius and famously difficult to work with on anything". Word. Explains, among other things, the platypus, also likely to have been dreamed up while Evolution was off its meds.
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Date: Monday, 2 March 2009 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 05:51 am (UTC)But, yes, it's strangely nice to see the bunny again. (The rest of you can stop chanting "Stockholm Syndrome!" in the background).
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Date: Monday, 2 March 2009 09:23 am (UTC)Well done agent #008 (Codename: The Pen)
Date: Monday, 2 March 2009 09:27 am (UTC)Joker
"Peace to the books of the world, an iron hammer to those who would abuse them, and glory and wisdom to the British Empire!"
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Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 05:53 am (UTC)That's actually a highly lucid summary. Except that most of them are actually overtly about other stories, since I find upfront fairy tale more fun than the ones that try to slide it in when you're not looking.
Mac, I am once again failing to get your references on all fronts. Read of Die?
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Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 06:43 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_or_Die
just seemed appropriate.
Bookhunter is not well known enough
http://www.shigabooks.com/
nor the Librarian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Librarian_franchise
Rex Libris would not really suit you. Too violent? Mind you, only people with overdue books get hurt.
http://www.jtillustration.com/rex/
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Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 07:02 pm (UTC)Bookhunter I do know, it's pleasingly absurd. I don't know The Librarian, although the artwork is stunning. And I am, naturally, delighted to be associated with the furtherance of Project L-Space in any form. Prolongued association with academic libraries has made me a dab hand with the .303 bookworms. (The secret is to slow them down by slinging a quick tome of poststructuralist criticism in their path, and then hit them individually and firmly with the collected works of Shakespeare or a nice fat Dickens as they stagger disoriented out the other end).
I didn't know there were so many thriller-style works dedicated to librarians. I should acquire some for
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Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 05:58 am (UTC)I still want to put together all this eroticism/representation stuff I lecture into a book called "Unreal Sex", and use the Ursula S&M unicorn as cover art. It would be perfect. Also perfectly dodgy :>.
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Dayle
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Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 06:00 am (UTC)Thank you for the "yay", you must be very familiar with the heady rush of a book with your name on the cover :>.
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Date: Monday, 2 March 2009 09:12 pm (UTC)XXiii
The steep poundage is pretty normal: it's nearly always the case that £1=$1 in Amazon-world, probably on the grounds that the Brits are used to paying more for everything anyway.
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