Favorite PBZ Quote
Kelly Zum
For the life of me I can't follow these insane threads!
Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
whatever?
¤Kelly ¤
ravven
Cliff Evans
Kelly Zum wrote:
>
> For the life of me I can't follow these insane threads!
We *do* have a bad habit of leaving old subject headers on, don't we?
Anyway, welcome out into the open, and feel free to contribute to all
the confusion at will.
>
> Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
> whatever?
Simple. "Night is the hardest time to be alive. Four AM knows all my
secrets."
-Cliff.
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Scott
On 18 May 1997 05:57:40 GMT, kell...@aol.com (Kelly Zum) wrote:
>For the life of me I can't follow these insane threads!
>
>Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
>whatever?
>
>¤Kelly ¤
>
"PBZ" once, typo. "PBZ" twice is the eighth deadly sin.
ciao,
Scott
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Twilight
Scott wrote:
> On 18 May 1997 05:57:40 GMT, kell...@aol.com (Kelly Zum) wrote:
> >For the life of me I can't follow these insane threads!
> >Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
> >whatever?
> "PBZ" once, typo. "PBZ" twice is the eighth deadly sin.
> ciao,
> Scott
*Twi giggles hysterically and hugs Scott*
I knew I adored you for a reason :)
Whips and Kisses---
Twilight, who talked to Jena on the phone tonight :) *waves*
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On Mon, 19 May 1997, Kelly Zum wrote;
>oh no! I think I will go crawl into a hole and curl up like a spider when
>it dies. Goodnight.
Don't you worry about it, call the alpha beta girl anything you want,
Scotts just trying to scare you because... um need a reason to scare
people? So anyway don't worry we just pretend to be anal incase a scary
person called ...Mare... comes back to get us....
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Cliff Evans
Twilight wrote:
>
> Kelly Zum wrote:
> > For the life of me I can't follow these insane threads!
>
> every single thread is an important part of Poppy, dammit. I say so
> :P
>
> > Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
> > whatever?
>
> Whips and Kisses---
> Twilight, who is not insane, dammit
> *pout*
No, dear, you aren't insane.
Tempermental as shit, but not insane.
And our threads *do* have a tendency to wander...
si...@earthlink.net
Twilight wrote:
> *Twi giggles hysterically and hugs Scott*
> I knew I adored you for a reason :)
> Twilight, who talked to Jena on the phone tonight :) *waves*
Jena waves back, frantically! Hi hi hi!!!!
---Jena!!!
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The flowers of love are often bedded
on the bitterest of soil,
whose worms are spite,
whose greenfly cruelty
-Shade, the Changing Man
si...@earthlink.net
Kelly Zum wrote:
>
> For the life of me I can't follow these insane threads!
>
> whatever?
>
My favorite was from 'A Georgia Story' and I've been waiting to post
this till I could find the book in the wasteland that is my new
apartment, littered with half packed boxes and such as it is. Needless
to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'... grrrrrr!!! I
can tell you, it was about Gene and Sammy creating mountains of
cigarette ash by day, making love on their stained mattress by night,
and the narrarator commenting that he knew as long as two creatures in
the world loved each other, they were all right. Geez, where the Hell is
my book!?!?!!
Faye
si...@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
> > whatever?
>
> this till I could find the book in the wasteland that is my new
> apartment, littered with half packed boxes and such as it is. Needless
> to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'... grrrrrr!!!
LOL! Hey Jena, thanks for making me feel a little less guilty for still
living among boxes of unknown contents. The only way I've gotten
unpacked is to need something really badly. Just found the can opener
last week before my company arrived. Unpacked my books, music and videos
first thing though, so let's see if I can help you out.
"Hollow-eyed Gene and sharp-faced prettyboy Sammy shared a room and a
rum stained mattress, and created drifting grey mountains of cigarette
ash every day.....At night we heard them through the crumbling walls,
with their moans and their biting, and we knew as long as two creatures
in the world still loved each other, we were safe."
Faye, who is trying out the new account
si...@earthlink.net
Faye wrote this, and made me feel a whole lot better about living in a
cardboard mountain range of my own creation:
> LOL! Hey Jena, thanks for making me feel a little less guilty for still
> living among boxes of unknown contents. The only way I've gotten
> unpacked is to need something really badly. Just found the can opener
> last week before my company arrived. Unpacked my books, music and videos
> first thing though, so let's see if I can help you out.
>
> "Hollow-eyed Gene and sharp-faced prettyboy Sammy shared a room and a
> rum stained mattress, and created drifting grey mountains of cigarette
> ash every day.....At night we heard them through the crumbling walls,
> with their moans and their biting, and we knew as long as two creatures
> in the world still loved each other, we were safe."
>
> Faye, who is trying out the new account
Yay!! Faye has a new account... and yes, that's my passage... that's the
one that really got me. Oh, there were more, in that story and in
others, but this is the one that struck me the deepest.
I think 90% of my books are unpacked... my music has been freed from the
restraints of water stained cardboard... my video's have been unbound...
where the hell is my book? Oh, but Faye, I do know where the can opener
is... now if only I could afford a fridge...
Andy & Tamasine
> Needless to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'...
Ditto! I've lost three in the last year. Is there some bizarre
coincidence going on here...?
AG
Cliff Evans
<looking up from a pile of PZB books...>
Hmm? Wha? These? No, no, I'm keeping them for a friend. Really I was. I
was out of town when the shit happened...
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Alien
Faye wrote:
>
> si...@earthlink.net wrote:
> > > Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
> > > whatever?
> >
> > My favorite was from 'A Georgia Story' and I've been waiting to post
> > this till I could find the book in the wasteland that is my new
> > to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'... grrrrrr!!!
>
> LOL! Hey Jena, thanks for making me feel a little less guilty for still
> living among boxes of unknown contents. The only way I've gotten
> unpacked is to need something really badly. Just found the can opener
> last week before my company arrived. Unpacked my books, music and videos
> first thing though, so let's see if I can help you out.
I've been here for almost 5 years, and I still don't know where
half my clothes are. I found a stash of CDs I'd forgotten about a few
weeks ago while looking for high school year books. I found a suit a few
days ago, but it doesn't fit anymore. So I went looking for the scale
and I've gained 20 pounds!
Alien
Andy & Tamasine wrote:
>
> > Needless to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'...
>
> coincidence going on here...?
>
I keep all my read books on the shelf. That way I don't misplace
them...if I take them down for one reason or another, I always make sure
they land somewhere near the shelf so mom can put them back.
Adrian
Andy & Tamasine <andy....@virgin.net> writes
>> Needless to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'...
>
>Ditto! I've lost three in the last year. Is there some bizarre
>coincidence going on here...?
My copy of Swamp Foetus is safe and sound, but my copy of Drawing Blood
has very mysteriously vanished. I have looked, and looked again, and
looked *again*, but still no trace. The place I live is small, so
there's not really anywhere else it *could* be.
I finally decided to get a new copy, but it's vanished from all the
bookstores too.
(In fact, Drawing Blood was the last PZB book I read, simply *because* I
couldn't find it anywhere. I eventually found it in a late-opening
bookstore, one winter's night as I staggered home drunk.)
--
Adrian
Andrija Popovic
> Twilight wrote:
> > *Twi giggles hysterically and hugs Scott*
> > I knew I adored you for a reason :)
> > Whips and Kisses---
> > Twilight, who talked to Jena on the phone tonight :) *waves*
>
> Jena waves back, frantically! Hi hi hi!!!!
Ooh, Twi, what did Jena sound like? :)
Not everyone's net.voice sounds like their real voice. Twi's got a talent
in that regard.
> ---Jena!!!
> --
> The flowers of love are often bedded
> on the bitterest of soil,
> whose worms are spite,
> whose greenfly cruelty
> -Shade, the Changing Man
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Rosered
Alien wrote:
> I've been here for almost 5 years, and I still don't know where
> half my clothes are. I found a stash of CDs I'd forgotten about a few
> weeks ago while looking for high school year books. I found a suit a few
> days ago, but it doesn't fit anymore. So I went looking for the scale
> and I've gained 20 pounds!
So what you're saying is that we should start a decorating trend that
includes cardboard boxes and those orange moving blankets. I thin you
may be on to something. Jena? Sin? All it would take is a write up in
Architectural Digest and we could charge by the hour for our "special"
look. Let's start thinking of a name for out firm...
Faye
si...@earthlink.net
Cliff Evans wrote:
>
> Andy & Tamasine wrote:
> >
> > > Needless to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'...
> >
> > Ditto! I've lost three in the last year. Is there some bizarre
> > coincidence going on here...?
>
>
> Hmm? Wha? These? No, no, I'm keeping them for a friend. Really I was. I
> was out of town when the shit happened...
Like I said, a black hole has eaten them... or would Cliff be considered
a void???
si...@earthlink.net
Andy & Tamasine wrote:
>
> > Needless to say, I can find all the books except 'Swamp Foetus'...
>
> Ditto! I've lost three in the last year. Is there some bizarre
> coincidence going on here...?
>
There is... it's a conspiracy... there is a black hole eating up copies
of really good books... hmmmmmmmmm...
si...@earthlink.net
Alien wrote:
I keep all my read books on the shelf. That way I don't
misplace
> them...if I take them down for one reason or another, I always make sure
> they land somewhere near the shelf so mom can put them back.
Yeah, but my mom does'nt put my stuff away anymore, and I just moved...
blech!!!! What a mess!
Ait...@usa.net
In article <hHgbDAAu...@twoplusone.demon.co.uk>,
Adrian <adr...@twoplusone.demon.co.uk> wrote:
(snip)
> My copy of Swamp Foetus is safe and sound, but my copy of Drawing Blood
> I finally decided to get a new copy, but it's vanished from all the
> bookstores too.
>(In fact, Drawing Blood was the last PZB book I read, simply *because* I
> couldn't find it anywhere. I eventually found it in a late-opening
> bookstore, one winter's night as I staggered home drunk.)
> --
> Adrian
I had the same problem with "Drawing Blood." It would seem they stock it
sporadically. I was determined to get it at Waldenbooks to get my
preferred member point thingies and it took several months to get my
hands upon it. Then again, I was too damn lazy to drive across town to
the other Waldenbooks so I suppose I got what I deserved.
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Paul Flay
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Adrian wrote;
>>
>>Ditto! I've lost three in the last year. Is there some bizarre
>>coincidence going on here...?
>
>looked *again*, but still no trace. The place I live is small, so
>there's not really anywhere else it *could* be.
>
>bookstores too.
>
>(In fact, Drawing Blood was the last PZB book I read, simply *because* I
>couldn't find it anywhere. I eventually found it in a late-opening
>bookstore, one winter's night as I staggered home drunk.)
have it if you like.
si...@earthlink.net
Andrija Popovic wrote:
>
> In article <33847C...@earthlink.net>, si...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Twilight wrote:
> > > *Twi giggles hysterically and hugs Scott*
> > > I knew I adored you for a reason :)
> > > Whips and Kisses---
> > > Twilight, who talked to Jena on the phone tonight :) *waves*
> >
> > Jena waves back, frantically! Hi hi hi!!!!
>
> Ooh, Twi, what did Jena sound like? :)
>
> Not everyone's net.voice sounds like their real voice. Twi's got a talent
> in that regard.
Scary, really, but I think I probably sound just like I do here, typos
and all!!! And if you ever wanna call me, Andri, e-mail me privately and
I'll give you the number. Ummmm... I think Cliff, Twi and Faye can
verify what I sound like on the phone, though I heard myself on our
machine the other day and swore I did'nt sound like that for about five
miniutes...
---Jena!!!
(who would like everyone to know it's pronounced Jenna, not Gina, as
some folks seem to think... but Twi got it right, hee!!!)
Cliff Evans
si...@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Ooh, Twi, what did Jena sound like? :)
> Scary, really, but I think I probably sound just like I do here, typos
> and all!!! And if you ever wanna call me, Andri, e-mail me privately and
> I'll give you the number. Ummmm... I think Cliff, Twi and Faye can
> verify what I sound like on the phone, though I heard myself on our
> machine the other day and swore I did'nt sound like that for about five
> miniutes...
You *do* sound like your net-voice, sorta. Assertive, but not uptight. I
sound like I'm describing a wine. (A fine whine? Nah...)
I've been catching up on comics lately...what kind of voice balloon do
you think you'd have? Anyone? Anyone?
> (who would like everyone to know it's pronounced Jenna, not Gina, as
> some folks seem to think... but Twi got it right, hee!!!)
<snort> For as many times as I've corrected her, she'd bloody well
better...
-Cliff, who just got his phone bill and won't be talking to anyone for
quite awhile... >8-P
Nancy M Salazar
>has everyone on this ng had at least on poppy book simply
vanish?....even
>though it was my g/f who lost Lost Souls she claims she put it in her
>locker and when she went back to get it it was gone...
>
>i think we should call up unsolved mysteries....
>
>michæl(arkardy)
Sorta like Aleister Crowley stuff...
Nineveh
Paul Flay
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Cliff Evans wrote;
>I've been catching up on comics lately...what kind of voice balloon do
>you think you'd have? Anyone? Anyone?
grumbling and making no sense though.
si...@earthlink.net
Cliff Evans wrote:
> Yours would look nothing like Delerium's. It would be a little closer to
> Desire's, if Desire weren't so cruel. Just the shape of the letters seem
> right to me.
Wow... you know, I think that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me in
a long time... and I really needed it, thanks!
---Jena, who is very seriously sad and depressed right now.
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Cliff Evans
si...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> Cliff Evans wrote:
>
> > You *do* sound like your net-voice, sorta. Assertive, but not uptight. I
> > sound like I'm describing a wine. (A fine whine? Nah...)
>
Hardly, not even.
>
> > I've been catching up on comics lately...what kind of voice balloon do
> > you think you'd have? Anyone? Anyone?
>
> I'm afraid mine would be like Delerium's, with the letters big and small
> in no particular order, careening this way and that. Oh, and I was told
> I reminded someone of Death, not in looks, but in that perky
> 'Supercalifragilistic' way... hey... did Death start the perky goth
> trend???
Yours would look nothing like Delerium's. It would be a little closer to
Desire's, if Desire weren't so cruel. Just the shape of the letters seem
right to me.
>
> > <snort> For as many times as I've corrected her, she'd bloody well
> > better...
>
> I'll have you know she credited you with her fine pronunciation of my
> moniker, thanks!!!
<G> That's good. I'm glad it sunk in. I hate hearing things
mispronounced. That, and I'm sick of people asking me my name and then
calling me Chris.
>
> > -Cliff, who just got his phone bill and won't be talking to anyone for
> > quite awhile... >8-P
>
> Ugh, phone bills... real time mail tends to be the heart of darkness,
> well, that and Scott's bedroom, really...
No, the heart of darkness is my laundry basket...
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Ait...@usa.net
In article <5mnqrv$l...@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>,
This is quite true, indeed! I fear I shall never find the missing cards
from my Book of Thoth tarot deck. My Poppy books are so far intact, but
I'm missing all my Anne Rice Vampire books and my copy of the
Necronomicon. Maybe gothically magickal things inevitably expire. Either
that or someone's stealing all these things for their bookburning.
:)Aithne
Cliff Evans
si...@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Yours would look nothing like Delerium's. It would be a little closer to
> > Desire's, if Desire weren't so cruel. Just the shape of the letters seem
> > right to me.
> Wow... you know, I think that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me in
> a long time... and I really needed it, thanks!
>
> ---Jena, who is very seriously sad and depressed right now.
Well, you're welcome, and...<BIG FUZZY BOZOHUG FOR JENA> because you're
so sad.
Off to spread more cheer throughout the land (quit looking at me like
that...)
-Cliff.
si...@earthlink.net
zastur wrote:
> Hey, yeah? I always thought it was pronounced Jane-ah. *shrug*
>
Oftentimes when I'm typing it, I mess up and become Jean... now that's
the worst!
---Jena!!!
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Danie|
Twilight wrote:
> Twilight, who is not insane, dammit
"I WANT DOUGHNUTS!! IT'S 11:45 PM AND I WANT DOUGHNUTS!!!!!"
Noooooo, of course you aren't insane. . .
~Dann [who is patting Twi Twi on the head and telling her
he will get her help.]
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si...@earthlink.net wrote:
> I think 90% of my books are unpacked... my music has been freed from the
> restraints of water stained cardboard... my video's have been unbound...
> where the hell is my book? Oh, but Faye, I do know where the can opener
> is... now if only I could afford a fridge...
Well, pack it all up and move out of that cursed apartment! You've
already exorcised it, haven't you? O:)
~Dann [who tells Teddie hello]
Subgirl666
>> Anyway, what's your favorite quote from a PBZ book, short story, or
>> whatever?
Hello! I'm new to this list, the fact being i can't get newsgroups with
the stupid .edu account i'm on, so i got this even WORSE aol account.
Anyway, i just figured that this is a pritty good thread to start off on.
My favorite quote (although there are SO many favorites, this is one)
Well, this one is not my absolute favorite, but I really love the imagery
from this passage from Toxic Wastrels.
"In the swelter of the swamp--in the fresh batch of springtime much just
beginning to steam with the accumulated heat of long Louisiana days--in
the roots of the oak and cypress and in every ashed frond of their
Spanish-moss beards, in the jeweled red eyes of gators and the million
iridescent wings of gnat-swarms that hung like glittering spirits over
pools of stagnant water--in all of those, a fertile world of poison waited
to be born."
*Subgirl*
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Stephen Boots
subgi...@aol.com (Subgirl666) wrote:
>Hello! I'm new to this list, the fact being i can't get newsgroups with
>the stupid .edu account i'm on, so i got this even WORSE aol account.
>Anyway, i just figured that this is a pritty good thread to start off on.
>
>*Subgirl*
Hey, Paul, we got another one! Who's got that screwdriver now?
Oh, sorry, I've been reading too many of these warped posts of yours...
Welcome to the group. Stay a while. Watch out for Cliff. Paul is harmless.
Can't really say the same about Scott. And Ryan doesn't really deserve the
rep he's been getting here lately. Honest. They keep saying he's not
housebroken, but I think it's a lie...
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Cliff Evans
Subgirl666 wrote:
> My favorite quote (although there are SO many favorites, this is one)
>
> Well, this one is not my absolute favorite, but I really love the imagery
> from this passage from Toxic Wastrels.
>
> "In the swelter of the swamp--in the fresh batch of springtime much just
> beginning to steam with the accumulated heat of long Louisiana days--in
> the roots of the oak and cypress and in every ashed frond of their
> Spanish-moss beards, in the jeweled red eyes of gators and the million
> iridescent wings of gnat-swarms that hung like glittering spirits over
> pools of stagnant water--in all of those, a fertile world of poison waited
> to be born."
Um...where was this published? I've never heard of it.
-Cliff, who thinks "Triads" might be PZB's way into the movies...
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Cliff Evans
<boz...@earthlink.net>
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"I'll have a J&B on the rocks and a butcher knife
or something sharp from the kitchen."
-"American Psycho."
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Cliff Evans
Stephen Boots wrote:
>
> subgi...@aol.com (Subgirl666) wrote:
>
> >Hello! I'm new to this list, the fact being i can't get newsgroups with
> >the stupid .edu account i'm on, so i got this even WORSE aol account.
> >Anyway, i just figured that this is a pritty good thread to start off on.
> >
> >*Subgirl*
>
> Hey, Paul, we got another one! Who's got that screwdriver now?
> Oh, sorry, I've been reading too many of these warped posts of yours...
>
> Welcome to the group. Stay a while. Watch out for Cliff. Paul is harmless.
> Can't really say the same about Scott. And Ryan doesn't really deserve the
> rep he's been getting here lately. Honest. They keep saying he's not
> housebroken, but I think it's a lie...
Why does everyone keep insisting that I'm dangerous? I'm a sweetheart.
Perfectly harmless...<sniff>...why are you maligning my good name so?
<sob, sob> If you prick me, do I not bleed?
And no jokes about being a bleeding prick.
Where's the love?
-Cliff.
Stephen Boots
Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Why does everyone keep insisting that I'm dangerous? I'm a sweetheart.
>Perfectly harmless...<sniff>...why are you maligning my good name so?
><sob, sob> If you prick me, do I not bleed?
Oh, Cliffy, we know you better than this! The most harmless seeming are
simply the most dangerous. We have got to warn the others about you,
that's all. By the way, could've sworn that was you in the latest Mass.
travel commercial on TV. Decided it couldn't be as the guy had 2 kids and
a wife. Maybe you ought to do your own version of the commercial showing
the underbelly of the lovely back bay for the tourists!
>
>And no jokes about being a bleeding prick.
Now we don't have to, you already said it yourself. Thanks.
>
>Where's the love?
>-Cliff.
Oh, Cliff, you know we love you - it's just that it's our duty to warn
others that you could snap at any moment.
>
>--
>Cliff Evans
><boz...@earthlink.net>
>--------------------------------------------------
>"I'll have a J&B on the rocks and a butcher knife
>or something sharp from the kitchen."
>
>-"American Psycho."
>--------------------------------------------------
And this sig doesn't help the attempt at fluffiness...
Jena!!!
Cliff Evans wrote:
> -Cliff, who thinks "Triads" might be PZB's way into the movies...
>
Wanna hear something weird? I keep remembering the description of
hacking, every time I'm in the car going to the club...
"I can't hack getting dressed for the club tonight, so I'm going in my
bathrobe..."
Dunno why... just thought I'd share...
---Jena!!!
--
***********************************************
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple;
Garlands from window to window;
Golden chains from star to star,
and I dance.
-Rimbaud
***********************************************
Cliff Evans
Stephen Boots wrote:
>
> Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >Why does everyone keep insisting that I'm dangerous? I'm a sweetheart.
> >Perfectly harmless...<sniff>...why are you maligning my good name so?
> ><sob, sob> If you prick me, do I not bleed?
> Oh, Cliffy, we know you better than this! The most harmless seeming are
> simply the most dangerous. We have got to warn the others about you,
> that's all. By the way, could've sworn that was you in the latest Mass.
> travel commercial on TV. Decided it couldn't be as the guy had 2 kids and
> a wife. Maybe you ought to do your own version of the commercial showing
> the underbelly of the lovely back bay for the tourists!
<snort> If there was a wife involved, it wasn't me. And the Back Bay
*has* no underbelly. Well, unless you count the bit near Kenmore Square
(which is, I suspect, the only place in America where you have a Gap
across the street from a methadone clinic...) but nah. It's all rich
folk. And my bark is worse than my bite. Really it is. And all of the
people who would vouch for me seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
Fine.
> Oh, Cliff, you know we love you - it's just that it's our duty to warn
> others that you could snap at any moment.
Snap? If not by now, never.
Streeeeeeetch a little, maybe. >8-)
I am not an animal...
-Cliff.
--
Cliff Evans
<boz...@earthlink.net>
---------------------------------------------------
"Fightin's outta style...fun's where the fear is."
-The Firesign Theater
---------------------------------------------------
Stephen Boots
Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>And my bark is worse than my bite. Really it is. And all of the
>people who would vouch for me seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
>Fine.
But that's exactly what we're warning the newcomers about - your bark.
And you really think they'll vouch for you, eh?
I really should stop picking on you, though, but it gives me such
pleasure. I really enjoy your responses!
Jsrosered
Cliff wrote:
>And my bark is worse than my bite. Really it is. And all of the
>people who would vouch for me seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
>Fine.
Okay, I'll vouch for him. He's a sweetie. And his bite is *better* than
his bark.
Faye
--
There is no sin except stupidity.
--Oscar Wilde
clare hargrave
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:52:45 -0400, Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>Subgirl666 wrote:
>
>> My favorite quote (although there are SO many favorites, this is one)
>>
>> Well, this one is not my absolute favorite, but I really love the imagery
>> from this passage from Toxic Wastrels.
>>
>> "In the swelter of the swamp--in the fresh batch of springtime much just
>> beginning to steam with the accumulated heat of long Louisiana days--in
>> the roots of the oak and cypress and in every ashed frond of their
>> Spanish-moss beards, in the jeweled red eyes of gators and the million
>> iridescent wings of gnat-swarms that hung like glittering spirits over
>> pools of stagnant water--in all of those, a fertile world of poison waited
>> to be born."
>
>Um...where was this published? I've never heard of it.
>
haven't heard of this one either, but to me its eerily reminiscent of
mervyn peake.
he's another of my favourite authors. in fact (takes a quick peek)
hmm, no alt.books.mervyn-peake. shame
see yiz,
clare hargrave
Stephen Boots
jsro...@aol.com (Jsrosered) wrote:
>Cliff wrote:
>>And my bark is worse than my bite. Really it is. And all of the
>>people who would vouch for me seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
>>Fine.
>
>Okay, I'll vouch for him. He's a sweetie. And his bite is *better* than
>his bark.
>Faye
Yikes! Way too much detail!!!!!!! I don't want to think about
this....Really. (I love this group...)
si...@earthlink.net
Jsrosered wrote:
> Okay, I'll vouch for him. He's a sweetie. And his bite is *better* than
> his bark.
>
> Faye
> --
> There is no sin except stupidity.
> --Oscar Wilde
Faye... giving away the family secrets again, are we?
And I'll vouch for Cliff, too... he's very smart, the only weapons he
ever uses against anyone is irony and sarcasm... now how bad is that
really? I find him to be very amusing... love ya Clifflett!
Jsrosered
Clare wrote:
>haven't heard of this one either, but to me its eerily reminiscent of
>mervyn peake.
<blinking> Did she say Peake? Paul, did she say Peake? <patting the seat
beside me> Come sit over here, deary. Let's chat.
>he's another of my favourite authors. in fact (takes a quick peek)
>hmm, no alt.books.mervyn-peake. shame
Well, Mr. Flay? Why isn't there? There must be more than 3 of us....
Jsrosered
Jena!!! wrote:
>Faye... giving away the family secrets again, are we?
Nah, Cliff said his bark was worse than his bite, and I concurred! If his
bark is worse, then his bite must be better, right? :-)
Andrija Popovic
In article <33A5EA...@earthlink.net>, boz...@earthlink.net wrote:
> Jsrosered wrote:
> >
> > Cliff wrote:
> > >And my bark is worse than my bite. Really it is. And all of the
> > >people who would vouch for me seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
> > >Fine.
> >
> > Okay, I'll vouch for him. He's a sweetie. And his bite is *better* than
> > his bark.
>
> <falling out of chair...>
Cliff, it's nothing to be embarassed about. :)
> --
> Cliff Evans
> <boz...@earthlink.net>
--
Andrija Popovic (vu...@concentric.net)
http://www.concentric.net/~vuk6/index.html
"Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them."
--Phantom F. Harlock _Arcadia of My Youth_
Cliff Evans
Jsrosered wrote:
>
> Jena!!! wrote:
>
> >Faye... giving away the family secrets again, are we?
>
> Nah, Cliff said his bark was worse than his bite, and I concurred! If his
> bark is worse, then his bite must be better, right? :-)
Not that I bite. That anyone can prove. Not that anyone knows how bad my
bite is... I am proud to provide plausible deniability.
Cliff Evans
si...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> Jsrosered wrote:
>
> > Okay, I'll vouch for him. He's a sweetie. And his bite is *better* than
> > his bark.
Move along folks...there's nothing to see here...
> And I'll vouch for Cliff, too... he's very smart, the only weapons he
> ever uses against anyone is irony and sarcasm... now how bad is that
> really? I find him to be very amusing... love ya Clifflett!
Well, thank you. Nice to hear coming on the heels of "stay away from
him, oooh boy, he's one to watch out for..."
Name one time besides Mare or the person who bagged on customer service
people or annoying spam that I've unleashed scorn at the drop of a hat.
I'm a sweetheart.
si...@earthlink.net
Cliff Evans wrote:
>
> Well, thank you. Nice to hear coming on the heels of "stay away from
> him, oooh boy, he's one to watch out for..."
>
> Name one time besides Mare or the person who bagged on customer service
> people or annoying spam that I've unleashed scorn at the drop of a hat.
>
> I'm a sweetheart.
>
a sweetheart, I think so, but let's not throw our shoulder out patting
ourselves on the back, eh?
Cliff Evans
> > I'm a sweetheart.
> I never said you were the Antichrist... that's Scott's job! As for being
> a sweetheart, I think so, but let's not throw our shoulder out patting
> ourselves on the back, eh?
"I'm good enough...I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
And if I just keep saying that, one day I'll actually believe that last
bit...
-Cliff.
clare hargrave
On 17 Jun 1997 19:18:17 GMT, jsro...@aol.com (Jsrosered) wrote:
>Clare wrote:
>>haven't heard of this one either, but to me its eerily reminiscent of
>>mervyn peake.
>
><blinking> Did she say Peake? Paul, did she say Peake? <patting the seat
>beside me> Come sit over here, deary. Let's chat.
>
yayayayayay!! i knew i'd find some discerning people on this ng,
specially when i saw mr flay's address.
so tell me, who's your favourite peake character amongst all those
wonderful people? for me i think i have a soft spot for dr
prunesquallor, although there's many others that come close.
the thing i find about pzb that reminds me of peake is the way the
first impression is so gross/gloomy but when you keep looking there's
so much beauty. but most of the people i thrust titus on just looked
at me real strange and never got past the first few pages.
>>he's another of my favourite authors. in fact (takes a quick peek)
>>hmm, no alt.books.mervyn-peake. shame
>
>Well, Mr. Flay? Why isn't there? There must be more than 3 of us....
>
>Faye
>--
maybe because there's not much chance of any new publications..
well,
clare
Liz Simpkins
On 17 Jun 1997 19:18:17 GMT, jsro...@aol.com (Jsrosered) wrote:
>Clare wrote:
>>haven't heard of this one either, but to me its eerily reminiscent of
>>mervyn peake.
>
><blinking> Did she say Peake? Paul, did she say Peake? <patting the seat
>beside me> Come sit over here, deary. Let's chat.
>
>>he's another of my favourite authors. in fact (takes a quick peek)
>>hmm, no alt.books.mervyn-peake. shame
>
>Well, Mr. Flay? Why isn't there? There must be more than 3 of us....
>
>Faye
I used to have a lovely copy of 'Titus Groan' with one of Peake's
drawings of Fuschia on the front cover...it's disappeared to the land
of lent books that never return.... I remember a passage something
along the lines of Fuschia not wearing her clothes, but inhabiting
them - I could be wrong about this, but it stuck in my mind for some
reason more than any other part. I've just borrowed a copy of his
widow's 'memoirs', so he was in my thoughts when I saw this post -
does that make 4 ?
- Liz
Subgirl666
In article <33A053...@earthlink.net>, Cliff Evans
<boz...@earthlink.net> writes:
>> from this passage from Toxic Wastrels.
>>
>> "In the swelter of the swamp--in the fresh batch of springtime much
just
>> beginning to steam with the accumulated heat of long Louisiana days--in
>> the roots of the oak and cypress and in every ashed frond of their
>> Spanish-moss beards, in the jeweled red eyes of gators and the million
>> iridescent wings of gnat-swarms that hung like glittering spirits over
>> pools of stagnant water--in all of those, a fertile world of poison
waited
>> to be born."
>
>Um...where was this published? I've never heard of it.
It's from an anthology printed in 1994 by whitewolf/borealis called The
Earth Strikes Back: an anthology of ecological horror.
It's a GOOD book, my awesome, incredible, amazing boyfriend gave it to
me...
*subgirl*
ros...@bellatlantic.net
In article <33a94d27...@newsource.ihug.co.nz>,
harg...@ihug.co.nz (clare hargrave) wrote:
>
> On 17 Jun 1997 19:18:17 GMT, jsro...@aol.com (Jsrosered) wrote:
>
> >Clare wrote:
> >>haven't heard of this one either, but to me its eerily reminiscent of
> >>mervyn peake.
> >
> ><blinking> Did she say Peake? Paul, did she say Peake? <patting the seat
> >beside me> Come sit over here, deary. Let's chat.
> >
> specially when i saw mr flay's address.
Indeed! Well, you can come and play in our sandbox or library anytime!
> so tell me, who's your favourite peake character amongst all those
> wonderful people? for me i think i have a soft spot for dr
> prunesquallor, although there's many others that come close.
The Nervous Giggler....Yeah, but I hate that trait in myself, so it got
on my nerves. I have to be honest, I liked Steerpike, even though he
turns out to be evil, just because I liked the way he was written. I
liked the idea of his literal and symbolic climb out of the kitchen.
> the thing i find about pzb that reminds me of peake is the way the
> first impression is so gross/gloomy but when you keep looking there's
> so much beauty. but most of the people i thrust titus on just looked
> at me real strange and never got past the first few pages.
I hate that. At least tell me you got through the first three chapters.
Oddly enough, I found it reminded me of Winnie The Pooh, in that I could
almost hear someone *telling* me the story, rather than reading it. I
know it's strange...
> >>he's another of my favourite authors. in fact (takes a quick peek)
> >>hmm, no alt.books.mervyn-peake. shame
> >
> >Well, Mr. Flay? Why isn't there? There must be more than 3 of us....
> maybe because there's not much chance of any new publications..
Hey, maybe we could cross-post to some New Age groups and pick up a
channeler!
Welcome again, and hope to see more of your posts. Mr. Flay will be
pleased when he gets his computer back into shape, so a welcome by proxy
from him, too.
Faye
-------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====-----------------------
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Alien
> >> ever uses against anyone is irony and sarcasm... now how bad is that
> >> really? I find him to be very amusing... love ya Clifflett!
>
> >him, oooh boy, he's one to watch out for..."
>
> >Name one time besides Mare or the person who bagged on customer service
> >people or annoying spam that I've unleashed scorn at the drop of a hat.
>
> alt.books.poppy-z-brite drinking game. (someone brought it up a long
> time ago. I don't remember who.) Possible reasons for a drink could
> include:
>
> Someone implies that Cliff is mean.
> A new person is warned about Cliff, Paul, or Ryan.
> Mare is mentioned.
> Ryan pees on someone.
> We get spam about nudie pictures.
> Someone posted a sarcastic reply mocking the spam.
> One of the girls says that Steve and Ghost should get it on.
> One of the guys gets upset at the suggestion.
> Another thread leads to the topic of urine.
>
> I could try to think up more, but it's getting near 5am, so I should
> go to bed now.
How about everytime somebody mentions the drinking game? :)
Alien
> > him, oooh boy, he's one to watch out for..."
> >
> > Name one time besides Mare or the person who bagged on customer service
> > people or annoying spam that I've unleashed scorn at the drop of a hat.
> >
> >
> I never said you were the Antichrist... that's Scott's job! As for being
> a sweetheart, I think so, but let's not throw our shoulder out patting
> ourselves on the back, eh?
>
I don't think it was necessarily patting...perhaps just
reassuring...
si...@earthlink.net
Cliff Evans wrote:
> I would also add any time anyone makes a comment about your hat, Julie.
>
Yeah... ~but we really like your hat, Julie... really!~
ros...@bellatlantic.net
In article <33abc37b...@news.demon.co.uk>,
L...@lafcadio.demon.co.uk (Liz Simpkins) wrote:
>
> On 17 Jun 1997 19:18:17 GMT, jsro...@aol.com (Jsrosered) wrote:
>
> >Clare wrote:
> >>haven't heard of this one either, but to me its eerily reminiscent of
> >>mervyn peake.
> >
> ><blinking> Did she say Peake? Paul, did she say Peake? <patting the seat
> >beside me> Come sit over here, deary. Let's chat.
> >
> >>hmm, no alt.books.mervyn-peake. shame
> >
> >Well, Mr. Flay? Why isn't there? There must be more than 3 of us....
> I used to have a lovely copy of 'Titus Groan' with one of Peake's
> drawings of Fuschia on the front cover...it's disappeared to the land
> of lent books that never return.... I remember a passage something
> along the lines of Fuschia not wearing her clothes, but inhabiting
> them - I could be wrong about this, but it stuck in my mind for some
> reason more than any other part. I've just borrowed a copy of his
> widow's 'memoirs', so he was in my thoughts when I saw this post -
> does that make 4 ?
Hi Liz, and welcome to the group! You are officially Peakedom's #4; I'm
keeping track of us until Paul is back online. And indeed, you
recollection of the passage is correct. Dear me, I didn't know there was
a memoir. What's the name of it, and the publisher?
The Gatekeeper
si...@earthlink.net wrote:
>Cliff Evans wrote:
>> I would also add any time anyone makes a comment about your hat, Julie.
>>
>Yeah... ~but we really like your hat, Julie... really!~
<sob> I lost the hat! The last time I had it was when I spent the
night at my friend Heather's house. I didn't know it was missing for
several weeks, and when I asked her about it, she said that she hadn't
seen a spare hat laying around her house.
I think I might need a moment of silence for the loss of my hat.
<Julie bows her head.>
***********************************************
Bow down, or I will unleash my zoinky army
of surly crack babies! -Happy Noodle Boy
Julie Davidson davi...@primenet.com
http://members.tripod.com/~Ephebe/
***********************************************
Cliff Evans
The Gatekeeper wrote:
>
> si...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> >Cliff Evans wrote:
>
> >> I would also add any time anyone makes a comment about your hat, Julie.
> >>
> >Yeah... ~but we really like your hat, Julie... really!~
>
> <sob> I lost the hat! The last time I had it was when I spent the
> night at my friend Heather's house. I didn't know it was missing for
> several weeks, and when I asked her about it, she said that she hadn't
> seen a spare hat laying around her house.
>
> I think I might need a moment of silence for the loss of my hat.
> <Julie bows her head.>
<...>
<...>
Okay. Wow. The hat is gone. The end of an in-joke...
Ah well. Plenty more where that came from.
si...@earthlink.net
Cliff Evans wrote:
>
> <...>
>
> <...>
>
> Okay. Wow. The hat is gone. The end of an in-joke...
>
> Ah well. Plenty more where that came from.
>
looked like!
---Jena!!!
--
______________________________________
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
-Lord Byron
______________________________________
Liz Simpkins
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 22:22:13 -0600, ros...@bellatlantic.net wrote:
>
>Hi Liz, and welcome to the group! You are officially Peakedom's #4; I'm
>keeping track of us until Paul is back online. And indeed, you
>recollection of the passage is correct. Dear me, I didn't know there was
>a memoir. What's the name of it, and the publisher?
>
>Faye
>
Hi - It's called 'A world Away, a memoir of Mervyn Peake' by Maeve
Gilmore, published by Mandarin - the ISBN is o 7493 1423 o - I
haven't read it yet... just fondled it .......when I have I'll give
you MHO.
Thanks for the welcome!
- Liz
Paul
Alien <al...@iglou.com> wrote in article <33AB06...@iglou.com>...
Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Someone implies that Cliff is mean.
> A new person is warned about Cliff, Paul, or Ryan.
> Mare is mentioned.
> Ryan pees on someone.
> We get spam about nudie pictures.
> Someone posted a sarcastic reply mocking the spam.
> One of the girls says that Steve and Ghost should get it on.
> One of the guys gets upset at the suggestion.
> Another thread leads to the topic of urine.
>
> I could try to think up more, but it's getting near 5am, so I should
> go to bed now.
How about everytime somebody mentions the drinking game? :)
Boo! er better warn someone about me. Mare is presently flaming on
alt.gothic.fashion, just though you'd like to know where not to go. I'm
waiting for the three days that she doesn't post and we can go look for her
with garlic and crosses.
Sort this drinking game out, it just keeps dissolving into hot air. I drink
whilst posting anyway, why not make it more fun, Hah drinking more fun,
what am I saying.
..................................................
Lot of Love Paul
Prince of Introspective Mollusks
Paul
ros...@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> Welcome again, and hope to see more of your posts. Mr. Flay will be
> pleased when he gets his computer back into shape, so a welcome by proxy
> from him, too.
>
> Faye
I sure am and I forgot to say welcome, probably because it feels like I've
been away so long I feel more like the newbie.
Poor Faye deja posting? fallen on hard times, plenty of free newservers
woman, find one.
clare hargrave
>ros...@bellatlantic.net wrote:
>
>> Welcome again, and hope to see more of your posts. Mr. Flay will be
>> pleased when he gets his computer back into shape, so a welcome by proxy
>> from him, too.
>>
>> Faye
i never received the original of this, but thanks faye.
clare hargrave
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 16:51:25 GMT, "Paul"
<stee...@quadrillion.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>...snip... specially when i saw mr flay's address.
>
>Hah I rather oh la ha ha over ha did haha oh la yes.
>
>> so tell me, who's your favourite peake character amongst all those
>> wonderful people? for me i think i have a soft spot for dr
>> prunesquallor,
>
>I love his laugh, it leaps of the page, but personally I think it's
>Sepulchrave that I feel the most affection for. His trembling attempt to
>escape the world around him and then the tragedy of the library fire. I
>fantasized for weeks about being able to save those books for him, oh well.
>
yes, he's a sweetie. interesting your reaction to the library fire,
since it was steerpike that lit it :) must say i felt the same
though, and when i read it for the second time (and the rest) i kept
on hoping it was going to turn out different, even though i already
knew it wasn't
>> most of the people i thrust titus on just looked
>> at me real strange and never got past the first few pages.
>
>I thrust it on Faye (oh er) but I think she reasonably open minded to hack
>through it. The original before Graham Greene edited it is soo messy.
>Mervyn managed to confuse the characters names for whole chapters at a
>time. The problem with the book is that he makes no concession to the
>readers. It's still my favorite book, but that's why he died a literary
>unknown.
i never knew that about graham greene having to edit the book. my
copy (penguin modern classics 1974) has no acknowledgement of that at
all. was there ever an edition published in the original form?
>
>> >Well, Mr. Flay? Why isn't there? There must be more than 3 of us....
>
>> maybe because there's not much chance of any new publications..
>
>There's five or six other I've meet, maybe I'll do a site, haha but
>seriously folks. I've given twi a couple of Peake pics and if you got to
>her site there is an illustration of death from the Ancient Mariner and a
>picture from Alice in Wonderland. Grin, hell let's take over this group.
>
well, there must be others, there's definitely a quality in pzb's
work that reminds me of peake, which is why i was sure i'd find some
peake fans here.
well,
clare
Paul
Liz Simpkins <L...@lafcadio.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<33b5adb9...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> Hi Paul,
>
> Is there some initiation ceremony I should be aware of? I've only
> read the 'Gormenghast' trilogy..'Gormenghast' was the best I think.
> Anyway..this ng seems to have had a curious speedy effect on me...I've
> been doing a lot of lying down with a wet towel on my head etc. Is
> this just me? Does it wear off? can I have some more?....<manic g>..
I went to Glastonbury for a break. Ya rather speedy.
If you fall asleep at your keyboard then your probably close. But the real
initiation is if you have a dream where your posting in your sleep then you
wake up and your posting. Well then your definitely one of us.
--
Liz Simpkins
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:52:14 -0400, Cliff Evans <boz...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>Liz Simpkins wrote:
>
>> Anyway..this ng seems to have had a curious speedy effect on me...I've
>> been doing a lot of lying down with a wet towel on my head etc. Is
>> this just me? Does it wear off? can I have some more?....<manic g>..
>
>Uh, Liz...don't forget to breathe while reading the posts...it's
>important...
>
>Inhale, exhale, preferably in that order...
>
I think I'm ok now...thanks for the concern and sound medical advice!
- Liz
Jsrosered
Liz wrote:
>Glad I don't have to drink
>green or yellow liquid...or wear comedy head gear!!
I'm not touching the headgear, but ask Cliff what the green and yellow
liquids did for *him*!
molusk
Liz Simpkins <L...@lafcadio.demon.co.uk> writes...
>On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 07:11:21 GMT, "Paul"
><stee...@quadrillion.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>I went to Glastonbury for a break.
>
where were you? There were at least you, Adrian and me honour bound to
represent the ng in Somerset. And there's me left at the altar. ~And to
think you dared to hmpf me~.
>I have to tilt my keyboard at a 45 degree angle to make it *do*
>exclaimation marks!! for some technical reason...so if you don't see
>any of these..then I'm probably asleep. Glad I don't have to drink
>green or yellow liquid...or wear comedy head gear!!
It's five to 12 as you can tell and I'm all tired out already. Long days
work then mincing round soho. Why do I do it.... oh why.
--
Love from the Realm of Paul
Prince and Priest of Intropspective Molusks