Off topic, for which I apologise, but it seems to fit better here than the nagging thread.
A moment to note the passing of Eleanor Gould Packard, 1917-2005, who for 54 years oversaw the New Yorker's prose.
There's a New York Times obit, but one has to be signed in. I have stolen the following paragraph from it:
She was proud of her status. She cited the pinnacle she reached in 1972: a separate credit in "The Elements of Style," the hugely popular text written by William Strunk Jr. and revived by E. B. White. The citation, which says, "The co-author, E. B. White, is most grateful to Eleanor Gould Packard for her assistance in preparation of this second edition," recognized her as the linguistic equivalent of the Pope's confessor.
Apologies if this has already been posted - I googled and didn't find it here, but it could have been in links back in October.
Seniors in a home in Hobart, Tasmania, knit themselves a 1950s room. The article has pics of knitted teacups, a radio, cake, etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/stories/s1212449.htm
I can't knit. I just look on in awe.
elise, Fandom_Wank is one of the joys of my life (rather like my husband, and for some of the same reasons).
Do you think he meant sock puppets rather than shadow puppets?
Just popping back to let you know that the wankers have discovered Atlanta Nights:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/620064.html
and it's being suitably appreciated.
I hope this fits in whatever the rules currently are. Thanks to Mark (gaukler) for the ending!
The tall thin woman walked silently through the woods. They were not the woods of her people, and their Little People were not hers, to be pleased with a gift of tobacco, willing in return to watch over a stranger.
The client had been given a new name, a solid, unremarkable name. The others who lived in this wild place were eccentric, not prone to ask about someone's past. It should have worked. But sometimes a client was careless. Old appetites, old habits resurged, and were hard to deny when the new life seemed safe, cosy, and eternal. It had been his sweet tooth that had brought him back to his pursuers' attention.
The door under the gold lettered name was unlocked, and swung open at her touch.
The heavy body rolled down the stairs, bump, bump, bump, casually, as if it was the only way of coming downstairs.
She was too late.
Regarding satanic abuse narratives - I've read the (ur-?)narrative Michelle Remembers, and feel that I should point out the klutziness of much of that cult's behaviour. At one point they put little Michelle inside a wooden devil-statue and push small reptiles through the mouth opening onto her. Naturally, she scoops them back out again, and they don't know what to do about it. I vaguely recall that on another occasion she messes up their ritual by either vomiting or wetting herself, and they don't have a plan in place for dealing with that, either. Which leads me to suspect that they had not really thought through the complexities of dealing with small children.
Rick Salutin, a columnist in the Globe & Mail (Canadian newspaper) today quoted an exchange from one of his own works, between two revolutionaries being led to the gallows:
"We've lost."
"No. We just haven't won yet."
I don't have the newspaper to hand, so I won't vouch for the absolute accuracy of my quote here. It's part of a longer piece on the struggle going on beyond the lives of the individuals involved in it.
Jonathan Vos Post posted: I am trying to locate a book i read in the 1970's; it was sci fi - involved a woman crashing a motorcycle which propelled her to another dimension that eventually started leaking into her everyday life... I don't know the author or title. I thought it was "Nightmare" by (last name) Chilton) but nothing has come up so I must be mistaken. Any ideas on how to hunt? Don't ask why - it's just one of those things...
Thanks in advance
Kflofritz
Kflofritz has it right already - there is a book called Nightmare, by I.M. Chilton, published Scholastic 1968. Blurb is "It all starts with a motor-bike crash into a nightmare world of terror: a dark journey into the savage past." The pre-Scholastic title (they often change titles) was String of Time.
The site that I look at every day is abebooks.com Booksleuth forum, where people post descriptions of long-lost books and other people post suggested answers. Results are pretty good overall.
I'm not bad at IDing children's books, and there are some very knowledgeable people on the forum.
Solving a long-lost is like doing crossword puzzles, but people thank you and sometimes cry when you get it right.
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