"Unicorn evils." That's a very nice turn of phrase, there. It's amazing how nice death is, for literary work. It makes for beautiful songs, too. So many good folksongs about the dead, especially war dead and criminal dead.
I need to read more Frost. I'm guessing I'd like him, but I've just picked up the usual osmosis ones--ye old paths less-traveled by and woods stopped by, etc. Bryant, I don't know. Shall look into to! And cummings, I know, but haven't read. Heh, same with Tennyson!
It's such a funny thing, wandering into a field I don't usually play in. I realize I know all the *names,* but I don't know what they stand for. Whereas, in genre fiction, you know, if someone said "Butler" to me, or "Philip K. Dick" or "William Gibson," I immediately know what that name *means.* Not just that they're an author, but what that name describes. Always strange, being a newbie.
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Date: 2008-10-20 09:40 pm (UTC)I need to read more Frost. I'm guessing I'd like him, but I've just picked up the usual osmosis ones--ye old paths less-traveled by and woods stopped by, etc. Bryant, I don't know. Shall look into to! And cummings, I know, but haven't read. Heh, same with Tennyson!
It's such a funny thing, wandering into a field I don't usually play in. I realize I know all the *names,* but I don't know what they stand for. Whereas, in genre fiction, you know, if someone said "Butler" to me, or "Philip K. Dick" or "William Gibson," I immediately know what that name *means.* Not just that they're an author, but what that name describes. Always strange, being a newbie.