Comments | byelka58: Bloomsday, y'all.

byelka58

Bloomsday, y'all.

Jun 16, 2009 20:54

The internet informs me that today is the day to put on your best turn-of-the-century togs and swan about Dublin, honoring the events of James Joyce's Ulysses. Thanks to Gabs and her brilliant idea that we read said tome together - a plan on which she totally bailed - I've come to realize exactly what a weird practice Bloomsday really is, because ( Read more... )

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gabbiana June 27 2009, 07:28:05 UTC

A Wrinkle in (Winter)time: In the cold days of February, tesseract yourself to a two-dimensional world, face off with a disembodied brain for the soul of your favorite sibling or a convenient proxy, and recover in the arms of tender beasties who also smell pretty good. Your own winter won't seem nearly as cold after you've faced the emptiness of a soulless dystopia or the ever-nearer creeping darkness of The Black Thing ( ... )

byelka58 June 28 2009, 21:28:34 UTC

You're very good at crafting the names of these; obviously I support Norrellmas, and you deserve major points for Chrestomancibration, which sounds like a process of some irreversible, possibly unpleasant kind. Heck of a holiday, though - don't forget the part where you have nine lives (...eight... seven), a wicked sister, and the power to walk through walls.

Why aren't we children's authors? Is it because we are hideously bereft of imagination?

gabbiana June 29 2009, 03:04:13 UTC

I like to think that, at the present, it is far too hot for me to be creative in any respect.

On the other hand, maybe NOLA will inspire me with its, um, NOLA-ness.

More importantly, why can I only come up with children's titles for this game? Is it because I haven't done any real reading since high school? I think the answer is yes!

A Confederacy of Dunces (Oooh, you wouldn't have to change the name at all!): Converge upon New Orleans. That's it.