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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
The following takes place...in four hours...
Seven hours here. Gee... I'm pretty sure my hotel has Fox network. Now I'm concerned...
I'm sure I've raved about her before, but my most favoritest golden-age scifi author is Zenna Henderson. She wrote an amazing collection of short stories (Anything Box is my favorite) and a wonderful set of novellas about "The People". The People are refugees from another world trying to carve out a new life and home in the AZ desert. Henderson's stories tug at the heartstrings - almost violently - they are beautiful and amazing and loving and tragic. I identify with her settings because I grew up in that harsh place, very much an outcast because of my academic gifts. Amazing stories. Highly, highly recommended.
*sigh*
Five more hours.
It's a Bauer family reunion tonight!
Ack!
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I am:Olaf StapledonStanding outside the science fiction "field", he wrote fictional explorations of the futures of whole species and galaxies. |
Thanks...I'll put her down on my list, too!
Did you guys see the sunset tonight? Holy moly...if red sky at night = sailor's delight, it rather makes me wish I had a boat...and a day off.
22 minutes until the Bauer Hour of Power.
Dad took this one at the beach house.
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I am:E.E. "Doc" SmithThe inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later. |
Ooh...I'm glad you captured it, at least in part! It really was astonishingly beautiful.
I just read my first pair of Stapledon novels over New Years' - found a two-book collection at the used bookstore we hit in Chicago at Thanksgiving. Very odd, very distant sort of voice. Sort of weird.
ahhhh all caught up, and ready fer Jack...
many thanks...
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I am:David BrinBestselling producer of impossible-to-put-down epic adventures in a far-flung future. |
Here we go....
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