|
|
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
|
6:18a - Who Can Forget A Nudibranch?
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) atheilen the most noble timesink of them all...
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
And yes, I had no problem with the nudibranch - because it's amazing how many less usual words you pick up over the course of a lifetime. Thus I also know what a sabot is (Belgian mother).
-----
Seems to me that one thing writers, and readers, have endless trouble with is the difference between a good book - one that demonstrates craftsmanship etc and a good book - where people mean 'I liked it'.
( Read more... )
-----
And Dumbledore joins the ranks of tragic gay figures... http://www.hpana.com/news.20228.html
Why no true love and happy-memories for Dumbledore? -- well, see, he's gay.
"corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling "Dumbledore is gay" over it."
I've seen two reported version of what the Rowling question was -
"Did Dumbledore love anyone? Jo started to say "I always saw Dumbledore as gay" "
And over here - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_en_ot/books_harry_potter;_ylt=Aok6eYTkYP3it.mBxmkeGhJY24cA
"She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love." "Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause."
This is not whining against the many good stories I've read where there's a tragic gay romance. 'The Wild Swans' leaps to mind. But with the automatic linkage of gay love with heartbreak (or the implication that heterosexuals can find true love but gay people... I guess I'm thinking that either you believe in true love or you redefine it as being based on reproductive sex, none of that meeting of minds/souls stuff.)
Not, however, surprised that so many questions were about pairing people off -- that was one of the fanfiction obsessions after all.
Nor surprised that JKR doesn't view Snape the way so many of her fans do. One of life's ironies is that intelligent people can find depth in quite shallow pools. It's about mirrors and reflections and refractive indexes... or so I understand.
[And no, not particularly impressed by "Rowling remarked that if she had known that (applause) would be the response, she would've revealed her thoughts on Dumbledore earlier."]
(4 comments |comment on this)
|
|
|
|