Four things

[larryhammer]

1. I do not spend too much time with wordsofonebeat. I don't, I don't. I can stop when I want to -- now, in fact. Truth. I mean it.
   
   
2. The house-name discount grocery-store milk chocolate in Switzerland costs CHFr .45 -- about US$ .33. It's better than the US$ 1.50 stuff available in the states. I actually liked it, and I'm a hardcore dark chocolate fan. (That said, the Lindt bar with 85% cocoa was a Bit Much -- dial it back to 75%, and we've got a perfect chocolate bar.)
   
   
3. You know you're in trouble when one bad novel mocks a fictional romance with the same premise as another book on your TBR pile. You're also in trouble when, thirty pages into a Regency romance, you're bored and disgusted with everyone involved. (Note to pbray: None of these is the current reading.)
   
   
4. What do you think are the chances of getting a reading_clarissa community that's as enthusiastic as reading_genji?

---L.

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

Clarissa as in the Richardson novel? I'd join. (Ditto Pamela or Evelina).

[larryhammer]

As in Richardson, yes; I've only read it abridged, and have been wanting to tackle the whole thing for a while.

I've no desire to reread Pamela, though. Urph.

---L.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd be up for Clarissa. She has a pet coffin named Dread Receptacle. Who could resist?

[larryhammer]

Maybe if we named it lovelaceisaskank it's be as popular as reading_genji....

---L.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could name it lovelaceiswayskankierthangenji.

[larryhammer]

Pity we can't. (Ah, for the Usenettery of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork... )

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

The name of that new group you made? There is no good way to say it, is there?

[larryhammer]

You mean, a group L.J.?

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

No, not the name for any group. The name for that group. Its name is not a good word.

[larryhammer]

Its name is four good words mashed up, 'cuz with _s in there, it's too long for L.J.

Though I guess there was words_of_1_beat.

---L.

[paulakate.livejournal.com]

I keep wanting a metatopic where we can dicuss the joys and frustrations of word of one beat.

[larryhammer]

Hee.

I keep wanting to comment on Jo Walton's comment on the value of translating things into words of one beat for appreciating how good the original is, with a meditation on how it's a good exercise for training one's ear for poetry. But I haven't had the energy to write it up in good words.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Called something like monosyllabicmeta? Only I'm sure that's too many words.

[larryhammer]

One letter too many for LJ.

---L.