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angst of the saints

by calliope

Member since 2003 · Posted 13 Jan 2006 · 18 comments

you dont get me. but neither do i. the words that i use are my own, but i try. like how a dream is defined by some publisher's eye. so i'm just as surprised as you when you reply.

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[n/a] calliope 13-Jan-06/3:11 AM Reply
come on... zondervan? or even... guttenburg? yes, i know i spelled that wrong.
[6] Dovina 13-Jan-06/12:51 PM Reply
It seems the last line should be, "i'm just as surprised as you when i reply."
[9] zodiac 17-Jan-06/10:39 AM Reply
A publisher's eye is defined by what sells. That is, what people buy, what they like. Don't make it publishers' fault.
[n/a] ALChemy › zodiac 17-Jan-06/11:25 AM Reply
Yes calliope, so write lots of crap like Grisham, King, and Rice and watch the money roll in.
[6] Dovina › ALChemy 17-Jan-06/11:29 AM Reply
Have you transmuted an experiential dross into gold as every professor of alchemy, on occasion, should?
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 17-Jan-06/11:49 AM Reply
My crap's not gold but my pee is. Close enough to alchemy I guess.
[6] Dovina › ALChemy 17-Jan-06/11:57 AM Reply
Yes, there you have it - good one, lol. Take the general lousiness of the world and return it as a gift: of ugliness and angst or sadness, but just perhaps, of beauty too.
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 17-Jan-06/12:06 PM Reply
You have the most lovely and delightful weirdness about you.
Absolutely legendary.
[6] Dovina › ALChemy 17-Jan-06/1:08 PM Reply
My birthday is coming up. Could you migrate that lovely sentiment into a card with red roses, the velvet kind that fuzz up from the surface and feel clean-shaven to the cheek. And dark chocolate is quite appropriate.
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 17-Jan-06/2:44 PM Reply
So do you believe I know women a little better than Zodiac yet?
[6] Dovina › ALChemy 17-Jan-06/2:49 PM Reply
That's a very general question to which I have no general answer. I dare say you know how to get what you want from a woman better than he does.
[9] zodiac › Dovina 17-Jan-06/2:51 PM Reply
Sure, he's single. I had to marry one to get what I want.
[n/a] ALChemy › zodiac 17-Jan-06/3:01 PM Reply
God, you have to use that line in one of your stories.
Priceless.
I think your gettin' real close to the "Friends" formula.
[6] Dovina › Dovina 17-Jan-06/2:54 PM Reply
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
[9] zodiac › ALChemy 17-Jan-06/12:15 PM Reply
Don't - but blame readers, not publishers. That's harder, isn't it? Readers are like us. What are you reading now?
[n/a] ALChemy › zodiac 17-Jan-06/2:46 PM Reply
Right now, a book I bought at a yardsale called "The Practical Imagination; Stories, poems and plays. Before that I read Clive Barker's "Abarat". It's a guilty pleasure but he at least is far more creative than his contemporaries.
[n/a] calliope › ALChemy 29-Jan-06/11:11 PM Reply
the last thing i read was some plato. how lame is that? apparently he had good publishers because his shit's still around in yard sales.
[n/a] ALChemy › calliope 30-Jan-06/2:04 AM Reply
Not lame at all. He helped make Socrates into an almost holy icon and he is probably in the top 3 most widely read philosophers of all time. Pupil of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle. How's that for a resume? I got his book from a yard sale too.