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[flemmings]

I've always had difficulty getting a grip on the UK word wet, its precise connotations and characteristics. In a moment of synapses finally firing as they ought comes the satori realization: wet = drip. Why won't my mind always do that?

Continue to swim through Perdido. Am bemused that nojojojo could finish this and and not Jonathan Strange, though I'm sure it's a question of what you're used to. Perdido continues to be a more human funhouse mirror reflection of Gravity's Rainbow for which, trust me, I'm grateful. First night after reading it I dreamed I was in Shakespeare's London, tawdry garish smelly and energetic version of same. Thank you, China (which surely isn't his name? though given what other stuff my generation pulled on its kids, it might well be.)

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[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I met him at a con; it's actually his name.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's his name now, but was it always?

[incandescens]

I've got a friend (another rpg writer) whose name actually is Lucien Soulban.

(I'm grateful that someone told me that before I made any sort of joke to him about having picked an appropriate name for horror-rpg writing, etc.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Seen him on your FL. I have to say I never read that as anything but some kind of French hybrid.

[joasakura.livejournal.com]

I'm actually starting Jonathan Strange right now. Seems a wieghty tome.

oh, and i've been meaning to answer your question from a while back.

yes, plz. send more. I have 2 left. ;_; :grovels;

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Arrgh sure do wait for a Saturday evening when the drugstore and PO close until Monday. Hoard those two then.

Weighty, yes, but the style was fun, I thought, and it just goes on getting better the farther you get in.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Hmm well I've never read either of the authors mentioned...although I have heard of the one you're reading. Sometimes it because I worry I won't 'get' what things are supposed to be about and so tend to shy away from 'perceivec intelectual' books...anyway that's just an aside, I found this here,

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1362833,00.html

...and hope it clears it up a bit. I was curious too. Some of the names that my childrens friends have...make me wonder at their parents' logic or lack of! ^__^

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Not an author, a novel- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_&_Mr_Norrell) by Susanna Clarke. And thanks for the info on Mieville. 1974, yes, his parents were my generation and called their kids strange things. Though being named for 'China plate' certainly beats being called Banyan.

I wouldn't call Perdido 'perceived intellectual' either. Just intelligent and literate fantasy-- with a tendency to overdo the pluperfect tense, a tic I notice because I have it too.