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twenty-five years after the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman*, who then read The Catcher In The Rye**.
While there's probably no shortage of stories - like his 1960s prediction of being shot by "some loony" - the one I intend to post has only a tangential relation to him. And was amusing at the time.
We set the scene about six months ago; I happen to be paying a brief visit to my parents. There's a knock at the door, by men in suits brandishing bibles with intent. Greetings are exchanged, pleasantries, a brief comment on the weather, and then...
Men at Door: "We're here to tell you about the greatest man who ever lived."
Mother: "John Lennon was shot in 1980."
Men at Door: *Stare in confusion*
Mother: *Closes door*
In other news, my neighbour has decided that the twenty-fifth anniversary of John Lennon's death is appropriately remembered by - loudly - playing a particularly irksome song about so-called 'lady lumps', lovely or otherwise. There's just no escape from it.
* It's the 8th here.
** Holden means a great deal to literature students.
While there's probably no shortage of stories - like his 1960s prediction of being shot by "some loony" - the one I intend to post has only a tangential relation to him. And was amusing at the time.
We set the scene about six months ago; I happen to be paying a brief visit to my parents. There's a knock at the door, by men in suits brandishing bibles with intent. Greetings are exchanged, pleasantries, a brief comment on the weather, and then...
Men at Door: "We're here to tell you about the greatest man who ever lived."
Mother: "John Lennon was shot in 1980."
Men at Door: *Stare in confusion*
Mother: *Closes door*
In other news, my neighbour has decided that the twenty-fifth anniversary of John Lennon's death is appropriately remembered by - loudly - playing a particularly irksome song about so-called 'lady lumps', lovely or otherwise. There's just no escape from it.
* It's the 8th here.
** Holden means a great deal to literature students.
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Date: 2005-12-07 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-08 03:22 am (UTC)Make your minds up! I've got a sacrificial dagger to sharpen!"
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Date: 2005-12-07 10:05 pm (UTC)Is the "lady lumps" song the same as the "my humps" song? I try to change the station as soon as I hear either of those phrases, so I'm not completely sure.
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Date: 2005-12-08 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-07 10:46 pm (UTC)Almost as much as LOTR.
Still not fond of either.
Yay for your mother though!
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Date: 2005-12-08 03:20 am (UTC)LotR is just full of trite fantasy cliches. Oh... wait...
Seriously, though, LotR was the first thing I had to read with a dictionary beside me. You can tell that he was an academic by trade.
And yay for the yay!
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Date: 2005-12-08 09:28 am (UTC)Great story. Horrid execution.
You could tell the whole story, with all the passion and emotional impact, in a third of the pagecount. So much is wasted on wordy descriptions of things like funny looking trees and how far the orcs walked today. And random elvish songs. Which all suck. Worse than Britney Spears.
There was too much filler, because ultimately the book was about showing off his shiny worldbuilding, and the story was secondary. And to me, it shows.
If the books were more like the movies... they would still be just as popular, but a whole lot better IMO.
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