The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by L.N. Hammer:

How's the weather here?

    When water is life,
even the nose acclimates:
    in the pale pre-dawn,
for the first time in six months,
air holds the scent of dew.

(I'm writing a one-a-day poem cycle about the seasons of the Arizona desert. That was yesterday's.)

---L.

Don't forget to also tip the hat to Sir Terry Pratchett, whose Nation is a Prinz Honor book.

(For those who don't know, the Newbery slants younger -- most winners are middle-grade novels for older elementary school students -- while the Prinz is specifically for young adult novels. Both are awarded by the American Library Association. The Prinz is not yet as prestigious as the Newbery, but it's still Big.)

---L.

Oh, and ignore Graves's translations of names. (They're beyond fiction and into poetry.)

---L.

@304: ... ow. Just, ow.

I think I must find Henderson's book for my collection of bad poetry.

@258: Graves' The Greek Myths can be used for an initial survey of varient myths (ignore his interpretations unless you're looking for ideas for novels), but be careful and check the sources he cites. Sometimes there's mistakes in the citation, and sometimes he misrepresents what the source says. I've caught him saying things that are in none of the listed sources.

A much better guide to varient myths is Timothy Gantz's Early Greek Myths or Karl Kerenyi's Gods of the Greeks/Heroes of the Greeks.

---L.

I'm silent because I've been gone. (Honest, I'm only linking to it because the form's appropriate.)

---L.

Wait wait wait wait. Tintin movies? Hello!

Anyone got any rumors about which books they're animating?

---L.

I got which verse it was wrong, but recognized the provinence.

Which scares me a little.

---L.

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

I confess, I was actually slightly sad when Dafydd left the Dueling Modems boards, because it meant the place was dying. Even while being greatly relieved. Yeesh.

Jim: Marty Grabien has (or had) archives from the GEnie SFRT.

---L.

I wasn't able to watch this all the way through the first time it was doing the rounds. I still can't.

---L.

I keep cycling back to that Verona Total Breakdown excerpt, and its total bloody brilliance.

"Hammer down is how the hard girls kiss," indeed.

---L.

Hee! It's been a while since I've hung out at Eratosphere, but it's the best online poetry workshop I know of.


Another day within the manse,
Another manscript was torn --
The lonely, blocked-up writer's life
Of Nathaniel Q. Hawthorne.

---L.

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