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[gothwalk]

So I got on the train in Dun Laoghaire last night, a bit later than I normally would, and this little old lady, all in black, black handbag, black hat, sits opposite me. I was reading A Clash of Kings, a big hardback book. After a few minutes glaring, she asked, in an educated, slightly English accent, "Is that a historical book, young man?".

"No, ma'am," I said, somewhat apologetically, "It's fantasy."

"Hmph. Ungodly stuff, other fantasy. Lord of the Rings is the only true fantasy."

I attract these people like a magnet.

Comments

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

Remember that weirdness magnet I thought someone might have dropped in your pocket a few weeks back? I was wrong. Apparently the aliens have implanted it subdermally.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I'm in trouble if it's in the torso, cos, well, I could excuse leaving my left arm at home, and everybody talks about forgetting their heads, but it'd be hard to explain the arrival of two arms, two legs and a head in the office.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I deny all involvement with those italics.

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

Not so hard, to explain really. Especially if you don't have to explain it at all. You've heard, I'm sure, of people getting promotions based on dressing better than their coworkers? Not based on any inherent aptitude on their part. So, really, clothes can make the man, at least in the workplace.

In your special case it might mean a lot of starch however. For the clothes I mean, so they can hide your potentially non-existent middle bits and hold up what's left. You couldn't very well starch the arms, legs and head now, could you? Why, you wouldn't be able to move at all, or be productive. At which point they'll think your trying for promotion to upper management. Can't have that...

[elorie.livejournal.com]

Aren't you upper management, at this point, dear?

**evil chortle**

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

*snicker*
It's still a great quote, tho..

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

Yes but I've been a wierdness magnet for longer! And I work Libraries so I get to talk at length to people who are sure they have found the next best thing to Tolkien, or Judith Krantz, or Maeve Binchy or...

[magiien.livejournal.com]

I don't understand where people get ideas like that. And how could fantasy actually ever be narrowed down to one truth anyway? Ridiculous. BTW, how are you enjoying A Clash of Kings?

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I am so laughing my ass off.

[ezrael.livejournal.com]

What about freaking Narnia? The Worm Ourborous? Lord Dunsany? Mervyn Bloody Peake?

Urge to kill rising...

She was right

[(Anonymous)]

The origional and best is the sequence of The Simarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. In extensive fantasy / science fiction reading I have never come accross a more detailed world, with the possible exception of Terry Pratchett.
I have an extensive collection of background materials on Middle Earth, and continue to be amazed at how Tolkien's work continues to inspire people.

Darren Shiel

Re: She was right

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Darren! How the hell are you? I didn't even know you were online!

Re: She was right

[(Anonymous)]

Of course I'm online, that is what system's administrators do when they are not working, (if you don’t do it using a computer its not worth doing at all, just ask Tanya).

We really do not get to see enough of each other, it only seems to be at family functions, when the place is full of people we both have to talk to, and we never get around to talking to each other. Which is a pity as we have so much in common.

Anyway I am recuperating after a very rough July, the brain surgery went fine, but I had a rather nasty “rare but documented” reaction to the high levels of steroid they had me on. But at last I am over the side effects of the drugs, and am ready to enjoy at least another 4 weeks of sick leave, I will not be officially feeling better until I get bored.

I am a 1 person IT dept. in London, but they sent someone over from corporate HQ in Texas to cover for me. So the place is in good hands. So when I am feeling well enough to enjoy my sick leave (nothing worse than having your sick leave ruined by feeling sick), I am going to go see all the wonderful and very interesting things there are to go to in London.

Darren Shiel