'Never break the law in front of a cop'; I've often told people my daddy told me.
Not really. Really he told me it was OK to stretch points when I told people 'what my daddy told me'. Not many people left who realize how much nicer that was; given me, given him.
Speaking of wonderbeers-
Anyone have a contender for Herzwesten from 'The Drawing of the Dark'?
Yes, I know Tim Powers made it up. But, one hopes he had a model-?
#51- Maybe we're all thinking of Kenneth Rexroth's 'Autobiographical
Novel'- he remembers telling loud jazz players 'cool it, you'll get us
all busted' in the twenties.
The Wikipedia article never mentions 'sang-froid' as a form of cool.
Cool article though.
What's that thing in Burton- 'though you flee on your blood mare, the Turk will catch you on his rented mule'? I don't think the Turks worry about Arabs.
Orange Catholic bible, or Roman Quran? Enquiring minds want to know.
The Fellowship of the Ring- maybe in front of the Gates of Moria?
The Gates are cool. And- (as Fritz Leiber said): Tolkein wasn't interested in evil- not only does the snake not have all the lines, the snakes aren't even cool-looking.
Um, except the Ring, the Gates of Moria, the Black Riders, their pteradactyls, Smaug. . . should I abandon the 'not even cool-looking' part? Yeah, that't the ticket: Tolkein villains are cool-looking but void of interesting thought! Wonder why I liked the books so much in high school. And now.
I wonder if a book cover could show that contrast?
So- in a Balkanized neighborhood you always wonder if they shot the wrong Archduke. Any paranoid speculations?
Um, God rest her soul.
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