life on the tectonic knife edge

[lobelia321]

Now that we are all Californians, living on a tectonic fault and waking up to the juddering of walls, I want to post my firm belief that t'son responded to geological conditions by being violently sick twice last night. Like animals that sense an earthquake, so did t'son sense it; t'family guffaws but I remain convinced!

So he had to stay home from school. We lolled in the sun (sun!!!) on recliners, and then watched two episodes of SGA series 4. Tabula Rasa: how fabulous! Adrift 2: less so. Still! I'm even starting to feel the John love.

Oh, sod it all: I am drenched in the John/wraith love. Been thinking about them all day, fine-tuning.

I've finished the Sultan's Ransom, the romance novel I was reading. I couldn't really cope with the last 100 pages of it. I felt as if I needed to come up for air. Actually, I've concluded that slash is not like romance at all. Because romance is not subversive. But slash is. Every single fic has its tongue somewhere in its cheek, even the worst bad!fic. Sultan's Ransom? Not a tongued cheek in sight.

Now I'm reading a Russian sci-fi novel from 1921: We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Ah, the heady breeze of non-formula fiction!

I want to make a post soon, comparing a sex passage from Mills &Boon with a sex passage from action writer Chris Ryan with a sex passage from slash. Three genres, three cocks.

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Three genres, three cocks.

It occurs to me that this would be an excellent title for a fic.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*bursts out laughing*

Oh, freinds.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm adding it to my list of Stuff To Do.

Thursday: Book holiday.
Friday: Prepare lectures.
Saturday: Do cocks.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Earthquakes in Europe should just not happen. Well, at least you got Californian weather along with their shaken earth. Maybe they got English rain in change? *giggles*

I want to make a post soon, comparing a sex passage from Mills &Boon with a sex passage from action writer Chris Ryan with a sex passage from slash. Three genres, three cocks.
That could be interesting. Heh.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes. Cocks. *eyes you*

Have a dork in return. *g*

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Heh. And thanks for the dork.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I remember We. It's the original 1984.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too :) It's the proto-dystopian novel. And as such very generic n'est pas???

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Gads, does everyone know this novel but me? Well, better late to the party than et cetera! I am loving this book! More in t'other comment.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Also, P.S. Modernity was so modern.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It totally is. I am loving it. Loving it! It's got such a brilliant crystalline atmosphere, and what fabulous prose. I'm afraid The Sultan's Ransom quite pales in comparison as does, alas, that other token of literary modernism, V. Woolf, whom I read last week. The Russians are just amazing. I am in awe. I want to read Bulgakov next; comes highly recommended.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

oh man..don't go dissing virginia :)

but yes, i remember loving we quite a bit...then again, i was really deep into my systopian phase :D

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

See? You're being given a sample of California life- sun and earthquakes!

Maybe I haven't read enough romance novels (after age 14, I tended to avoid them), but I've always felt that they must be tongue-in-cheek. I mean, they can't really be serious! Or at least, if they're meant to be serious, surely the author is cackling away, thinking, "I can't believe I'm being paid for this crap?"

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

They're not tongue-in-cheek. This is why after 100 pages of being amused by the novelty I felt as if the air was drained from the room. They are serious -- at least the one I read was. I had to rush to read some fanfic.