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eredien, and lignota. eredien and I are temping at the company lignota works at all the time, labeling and relabeling lots and lots of expensive yet excessively tacky jewelry. I have learned that absolutely anything can be made a great deal more tasteless by the addition of diamond chips. It is brain-shut-down work and I get to put in a full eight-hour day tomorrow, but the pay is very good indeed, and it may well last into next week. This is the first employment of any sort I've had since leaving school, though the first money I made after college was from my fiction sale, a fact which makes me happy.
I am only a little worried about mental state or health causing me not to be able to do the job, since it is sit-down, but it's a sign of how much better off I am than I was even two weeks ago that I can affort to be only a little worried.
Enough of that.
Frankly, none of these are terribly obscure, but this is a good cross-section of my comfort reading (sans author duplications).
1. The people in this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California. -- Ursula LeGuin, Always Coming Home
2. Polly sighed and laid her book face down on her bed. She rather thought she had read it after all, some time ago. -- Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
3. Asleep?
No. Awake. I was told to close my eyes. And wait, he said, till you're asked to open them.
-- John Crowley, Engine Summer
4. 1801-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. -- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
5. I am the princess Harueme, daughter of Fujiwara no Enyu and the emperor we now call Go-Sanjo. More to the point, I am old and I am dying. --kijjohnson, Fudoki
6. I figure that Mom and Dad were having some kind of trouble and needed to go away by themselves. -- Daniel Pinkwater, Lizard Music
7. Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. -- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
8. Joe Cardone, twenty-two, bodybuilder, big, mad, and my brother, screeched into the driveway in his black Camaro, roared in the front door, and bellowed, "Where is he?" -- Gordon Korman, Losing Joe's Place
9. Farrell arrived in Avicenna at four-thirty in the morning, driving a very old Volkswagon bus named Madame Schumann-Heink. -- Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air
10. I remember everything.
Yes.
I remember everything perfectly. -- Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
eredien, and lignota. eredien and I are temping at the company lignota works at all the time, labeling and relabeling lots and lots of expensive yet excessively tacky jewelry. I have learned that absolutely anything can be made a great deal more tasteless by the addition of diamond chips. It is brain-shut-down work and I get to put in a full eight-hour day tomorrow, but the pay is very good indeed, and it may well last into next week. This is the first employment of any sort I've had since leaving school, though the first money I made after college was from my fiction sale, a fact which makes me happy.I am only a little worried about mental state or health causing me not to be able to do the job, since it is sit-down, but it's a sign of how much better off I am than I was even two weeks ago that I can affort to be only a little worried.
Enough of that.
Frankly, none of these are terribly obscure, but this is a good cross-section of my comfort reading (sans author duplications).
1. The people in this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California. -- Ursula LeGuin, Always Coming Home
2. Polly sighed and laid her book face down on her bed. She rather thought she had read it after all, some time ago. -- Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
3. Asleep?
No. Awake. I was told to close my eyes. And wait, he said, till you're asked to open them.
-- John Crowley, Engine Summer
4. 1801-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. -- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
5. I am the princess Harueme, daughter of Fujiwara no Enyu and the emperor we now call Go-Sanjo. More to the point, I am old and I am dying. --
kijjohnson, Fudoki6. I figure that Mom and Dad were having some kind of trouble and needed to go away by themselves. -- Daniel Pinkwater, Lizard Music
7. Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. -- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
8. Joe Cardone, twenty-two, bodybuilder, big, mad, and my brother, screeched into the driveway in his black Camaro, roared in the front door, and bellowed, "Where is he?" -- Gordon Korman, Losing Joe's Place
9. Farrell arrived in Avicenna at four-thirty in the morning, driving a very old Volkswagon bus named Madame Schumann-Heink. -- Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air
10. I remember everything.
Yes.
I remember everything perfectly. -- Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
