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coffeeem ought to know.
** Yes, I'm so lame as to write at cons. Your point?
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- A poll -- please fill in the blank: "If a guy named Larry went to Switzerland, he absolutely must see ________."
- WFC was fun as usual. Got to catch up with friends (waves to aerion, 1crowdedhour), defictionalize a metric boatload of others (waves to chibicharibdys, kaygo, matociquala, truepenny, mrissa, pbray, blackholly, stillnotbored, buymeaclue, and others lost in a conventional haze), and go fanboy on Garth Nix (as I feared, I
blurted outadmitted we named a cat Mogget). My freebie bag had Kitty and the Midnight Hour, which I'd bought and read last week. The slashfic plotbunny that came back in my luggage with will be passed over without mention.* - While hanging around in lounges at WFC, I revised a mid-length narrative poem and started tackling my revision notes for the third myrmidon yarn.** For the latter, I need to clarify/deepen one character's motivation and replace another's, turning her from an ingenue seduced to a spy betrayed and turned. For the former, I need to figure out who on earth would want yet another Psyche and Eros telling. On the novel front, feedback on Kiss the Girls concurs with my misgivings: while the beginning and end are solid, the middle half needs to be replaced with another story that's not as complicated, confused, unclear, and long. The Sekrit Project is bubbling along. Meanwhile, the romantic fantasy has been picking slowly of late; I need to BIC and stop distracting myself with all of the above.
- In the Department of Egoboo, someone at Emerald City gave a nod to "Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier" in a list of suggestions for Hugo nominations; and The Mumpsimus cited it as the particularly fun story of the issue. That's issue #5 of Say ... , currently on sale in fine dealer's rooms and online everywhere.
- The temperate default for autumn is cold-deciduous trees. Here in the subtropical desert, we have drought-deciduous plants. There are other things plants need, that might be cut off. You could spin out a skiffy concept of dark-deciduous plants: the light goes out for long enough a time the leaves drop, but it's otherwise still warm and wet enough. Create a world with those conditions, including a society that responds to them, and you're a quarter of the way to having a story idea.
- Is it just me or is it warm in here?
- Pimping: The Trial of Tompa Lee is Edward Hoornaert's first novel under his own name. If the idea of an unholy love-child of C.J. Cherryh and Jack Vance intrigues you, this is for you. ObDisclaimer: Ed's a friend and works in the office next to mine. Neither of which changes the fact that it's a good one.
coffeeem ought to know.** Yes, I'm so lame as to write at cons. Your point?
---L.
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Date: 8 November 2005 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 8 November 2005 10:15 pm (UTC)Pilatus Bahn. More fun than the one that goes up the Jungfrau, although the Jungfrau isn't shabby.
If you're really going, there are a number of extremely fun things to do on trains. Switzerland runs the world's largest 1:1-scale model railway. On time.
Lucerne's nice; Pilatus runs from near there. Fabulous ride. A lot of the lines will be closed in winter (if you're going in winter), like the Brienzer Rothorn Bahn. And you can take cable car up Schilthorn to Piz Gloria and be James Bond. Great fun.
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Date: 8 November 2005 10:47 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 9 November 2005 04:33 am (UTC)Tell me when and where you're likely to be there, if you'd like me to do a quick whip-round on the likely small lines. As for flying, eehhh. I have flown over the Alps and it's nice, but you're quite likely to fly over them getting there and if you time your flights right you'll have a great view on arrival and departure (weather permitting).
Hate to say it, but the Seilbahnen (cable cars) are often also ski lifts so they are likely to be open in winter.
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Date: 9 November 2005 02:15 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 9 November 2005 10:48 pm (UTC)Migros is like 7-11.
Get the Lindt "Extra" milch chocolate. The big bar.
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Date: 9 November 2005 10:56 pm (UTC)My earlier comment seems to have gotten lost:
Go to the Migros in the train station in Basel. Get little open-faced salmon, ham, sliced-egg, etc. sandwiches, all daintily trimmed and accessorized, from their takeaway counter.
Get the big bar of Lindt "Extra" milch chocolate.
Migros is like 7-11, except it's not.
Bon voyage. If you're in Madrid, I'll buy all rounds.
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Date: 9 November 2005 02:25 am (UTC)Italy.
Oh, ok, I'll play. Well, nothing can beat the Alpenglow on the Matterhorn, or the Alpenglow on any of the Alps, really, but the Matterhorn is especially gorgeous, and the twee little town on its shoulder, Zermatt, has no cars and everyone schusses about on skis or tinkles about in horse-drawn sleighs, with bells. Yep, bells.
Best of all: flying over the Alps in a small plane, as in a short-hop. If you can find an excuse to fly from, say, Geneva to Zurich on a clear day, it's indescribable.
Skip the cities and head for the high passes.
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Date: 9 November 2005 03:10 am (UTC)Though at one point, our host did suggest a hop down to Rome (apparently cheap this time of year). But now, touristing around locally seems the preferred idea.
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