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icepixieI hate it when a plot bunny comes and plops itself down before me just as I'm trying to get stuff done. *points at music field* I sosososo want to do a post-Heroes Sam-fic with that in mind.
Anyway. I'm reading Flaubert's A Sentimental Education for Modern France, and I'm snickering away 'cause Frederic, the main character, is basically Jules from The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. Seriously--kid from the provinces who comes to Paris to get an education in law at the behest of his mother, even if all he wants to do is write and paint. He even sees a pretty girl and gets all tongue-tied like Jules did with Rebecca occassionally. It's quite amusing.
Also amusing is my dialogue piece. I scrapped the first two I worked on and eventually settled on reviving my "witch takes Hansel and Gretel to court for damages to house and health" story. The judge presiding is the Honorable M. Goose, the witch's lawyer is the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel's lawyer is Goldilocks, etc. If you've ever read that book where the wolf from The Three Little Pigs tells his side of the story, or The Frog Prince Continued (what happens after the marriage), I'm sort of aiming for that kind of thing. I think I'll just have to turn in the first part, though, 'cause it's gonna be way over seven pages.
And! Jon loaned me his Farscape Season 2 boxset for the night! Gonna show CDM to Meg and Ellen, and possibly another ep...TWWW is fabulous, but might require too much explanation. We'll see if we even have time to watch another episode, though.
Anyway. I'm reading Flaubert's A Sentimental Education for Modern France, and I'm snickering away 'cause Frederic, the main character, is basically Jules from The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. Seriously--kid from the provinces who comes to Paris to get an education in law at the behest of his mother, even if all he wants to do is write and paint. He even sees a pretty girl and gets all tongue-tied like Jules did with Rebecca occassionally. It's quite amusing.
Also amusing is my dialogue piece. I scrapped the first two I worked on and eventually settled on reviving my "witch takes Hansel and Gretel to court for damages to house and health" story. The judge presiding is the Honorable M. Goose, the witch's lawyer is the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel's lawyer is Goldilocks, etc. If you've ever read that book where the wolf from The Three Little Pigs tells his side of the story, or The Frog Prince Continued (what happens after the marriage), I'm sort of aiming for that kind of thing. I think I'll just have to turn in the first part, though, 'cause it's gonna be way over seven pages.
And! Jon loaned me his Farscape Season 2 boxset for the night! Gonna show CDM to Meg and Ellen, and possibly another ep...TWWW is fabulous, but might require too much explanation. We'll see if we even have time to watch another episode, though.
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Date: 2004-02-23 12:19 am (UTC)Your story makes me giggle. Hee!
Show them WGFA. I love to do that and have friends spend the rest of the night going "What the hell?!"
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Date: 2004-02-23 03:21 pm (UTC)Heh. Join the club.
Your story makes me giggle. Hee!
Thanks!
Show them WGFA. I love to do that and have friends spend the rest of the night going "What the hell?!"
Bwahaha! I thought about it, but since two fo them had never even heard of Farscape except through me, I decided to go with CDM. Wanted to show them WGFA as the second ep, but they wanted one where "the characters aren't completely insane." So The Locket was pretty much my only option that wasn't part of a huge arc...