The tea must flow!

[icepixie]

I've somehow managed to quote Dune in my paper about Indian tea. Yeah, I don't get it either. I'm wondering if I should cite it or count it as common knowledge.

Sinus issues have abated somewhat thanks to drugs. Getting that extra hour last night helped. I might make it through a day without a nap today, although that's quite possibly due entirely to the massive cup of tea I had this morning.

We carved a pumpkin this afternoon. It's a happy vampire pumpkin. I'll post pictures at some point before Halloween. Theoretically. Everything besides this stupid paper is a bit iffy at the moment. (Three more pages!)

Yeah, that's about it for me. I'm very boring when I'm sick.

Comments

[orangetango.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if I should cite it or count it as common knowledge.

Cite. Cite everything. You know how these people can be. Plus, believe it or not, there are some of us here (like me) who have never read Dune and therefore would probably not understand the context. It's not common knowledge to all of us.

[icepixie]

But god only knows where it might be in the book. Which I don't own. Eh, if I get a chance to go to the library and look at the book, I'll cite it, but I think it'll be okay. I'm already crediting the author, and this is only a first draft...

[cleverocity.livejournal.com]

Mmm, tea. I hope you feel better soon.

[icepixie]

Thanks.

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Quoting Dune, huh? Rock! Which quote? *g*

[icepixie]

"The spice must flow!" Except, you know, with tea. And that might actually be from that horrible David Lynch movie version, not the book...

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Heheheh, that's awesome. And I think it was in the book as well. (Especially as the quote sounds very familiar and I still haven't gotten round to seeing the Lynch version...which I've heard is bad-ish overall but does some bits well or interestingly. Or something. :?P)

[icepixie]

The Lynch version is very...well, "David Lynch" is really the only adjective. I saw it before I read the book, and I definitely remember thinking, "there is no WAY this book can be any good." Luckily, I was wrong.

[elflore.livejournal.com]

It's a hard book to adapt. I saw the SciFi mini before I read the book, and I loved it until pretty much the ending, and then I was like, "wtf?". I didn't understand why Paul put up with some of the things he did, I thought it was pretty chauvinistic... It took a couple of fans of the book explaining some things to me before I started to get it, and then I gave the book a try and loved it. After that, seeing the mini again, I adored it, but it didn't quite make sense of everything until I'd read.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

I've somehow managed to quote Dune in my paper about Indian tea. Yeah, I don't get it either. I'm wondering if I should cite it or count it as common knowledge.

You're awesome.

[icepixie]

I know. :)