It is according to the slightly dubious orthography of Granny Weatherwax, a witch and headologist* in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels who periodically has out-of-body (and usually in something else's) experiences and thus leaves this sign out so nobody will bury her by mistake. I feel that given my near-total absence from conversation in the last week or so, I may be in similar danger . . .
*It's like psychology, only practiced by Granny Weatherwax, which means it's something totally different.
Aha! Exactly what I don't want to hear from my aloe plant. Admittedly, it would be much harder now, since who's going to hear a not-quite-dead but certianly not alive aloe plant calling out from a trash can in the hall of a dormitory?
I've used that as a placeholder on occasion. We all have these times. Pratchett, Red Dwarf - do you like Tom Lehrer as well? (I am trying to think of a song I can send you now, you see. I thought of his Irish Ballad...)
I like your sense of humour. I'll have to think of something you don't already have, then. As the music files are on the computer in the living room where my sister is asleep, it's too late to send anything tonight anyway.
I've got nothing of the Flash Girls. They're like Boiled in Lead: I'm aware of their existence, have read some of their lyrics, and have never actually heard them.
I didn't come to Emma Bull through War for the Oaks, either, which probably has something to do with it. I encountered Will Shetterly's Elsewhere and Nevernever in early high school, and branched out into Emma Bull's Finder and John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time shortly after. Acquired most of the Liavek anthologies primarily for the Pamela Dean. And eventually picked up War for the Oaks because I needed something to read on the flight to Italy, and discovered that pretty much everyone I knew had read that one first. Go figure.
I read Finder first too, and then looked for War for the Oaks.
I think it was the Neil Gaiman link that got me interested in the Flash Girls, though. If there are any of their songs you'd like to hear, I have those. And Folk Underground.
I have to admit that I haven't read anything by Pamela Dean. She is on the list of authors I hope to read as soon as I'm earning money again.
Pamela Dean is very good. I'm in an odd situation with her Tam Lin, because it's not actually my favorite retelling of the ballad: I much prefer Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock, Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard, or Alan Garner's Red Shift. If Dean's novel had ben a novella, I think it might have been a marvelous retelling. But the story is spread too thin. As it is, I think it's a marvelous university novel that happens to have some "Tam Lin" cropping up in the plot from time to time. (I read it my freshman year of college, which was particularly amusing given that I then went on to major in Classics.) In some ways, I think Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary is more successful as a retelling, even though the ballad again doesn't make a strong appearance until the very end of the novel—the weirdness is simultaneously more submerged and more present throughout. And I am extremely fond of her stories about the Benedicti family, from the Liavek anthologies. That may be all of hers that I've read; I'm waiting for more.
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*It's like psychology, only practiced by Granny Weatherwax, which means it's something totally different.
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Pratchett, Red Dwarf - do you like Tom Lehrer as well? (I am trying to think of a song I can send you now, you see. I thought of his Irish Ballad...)
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About a maid I'll sing a song . . .
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I like your sense of humour.
I'll have to think of something you don't already have, then. As the music files are on the computer in the living room where my sister is asleep, it's too late to send anything tonight anyway.
You probably already have The Flash Girls?
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I didn't come to Emma Bull through War for the Oaks, either, which probably has something to do with it. I encountered Will Shetterly's Elsewhere and Nevernever in early high school, and branched out into Emma Bull's Finder and John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time shortly after. Acquired most of the Liavek anthologies primarily for the Pamela Dean. And eventually picked up War for the Oaks because I needed something to read on the flight to Italy, and discovered that pretty much everyone I knew had read that one first. Go figure.
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I think it was the Neil Gaiman link that got me interested in the Flash Girls, though.
If there are any of their songs you'd like to hear, I have those. And Folk Underground.
I have to admit that I haven't read anything by Pamela Dean. She is on the list of authors I hope to read as soon as I'm earning money again.
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And if you do want something, you'll have to give me your email again, because I was a scatterbrain and didn't save it.
And it is so late it's merely early rather than very early in the morning. I had better go to bed, I think.
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(Sleep well.)
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Let me know if the files came through okay. I think I got it right, but I am not good with unfamiliar computer operations.
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