Maureen’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2009)

Maureen’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Jonathan wrote:"... a Rabelaisian figure ..."

it's really sad that every time i see the name Rabelais, all i can think about is cod pieces.

johnny -- do you know if the book is still in print?

points taken pavel. it's not in my nature to tell people they are assholes. i'll back off. :)

Pavel wrote: I dare say it didn't bring about the Apocalypse the last time around.


this is a little sidebar that probably should go in language but i was thinking about that phrase: "i daresay" today -- and i wondered why it seemed so awkward when i said it out loud. is it because i don't have a british accent? i say "i'd venture to say" all the time and think it's because i sound weird when i say "i daresay". do anybody actually say that out loud any more?

Adrian wrote: "Joyce is kind of rubbishy in his letters when he starts talking about Nora's underwear.
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did joyce keep sleeping with nora all the way through? or just her underwear? i can never remember...

Pavel wrote: "Sorry, I guess I missed the memo saying the goal of posting in this group was to satisfy your garrulous nature. Since we're sharing our "mantras" already, here's one I just made up: from now on I'l..."

oh jesus pavel. so you can joke around and i can't? didn't you see the darn smiley face? ;P

i'm equal opportunity with my moderator bullshit. let's talk about that for a while. have a look at the futurist thread where *i* said almost the exact same thing after one of martyn's drive-bys. :)

Neil wrote: "All right . . . I'm here

I'm oddly resentful of having to join yet another networking site to keep up with folk. I know it's irrational, but what the hell in the last 6 mths I've been poked or ..."

welcome oh reluctant and resentful neil!!!!!!! i hope this means you missed us. :)

(pssst. we missed you -- plus there's a bunch of neat stuff here!)

Pavel wrote: Joyce is rubbish"

i am sure this is an hilarious joke, but nonetheless here is my new mantra: can you please tell me why you think joyce is rubbish? these two and three word posts aren't satisfying to somebody of my garrulous nature. :)

hey suggesteroonies:

these are great suggestions to make -- you may want to add them to the goodreads to-do list: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

it's in the official goodreads feedback group, and it looks like the encourage people to post their support for whatever changes you would like to see. :)

and now back to ratings talk: i was happy for them to give me a ranking -- i'm sure if it had been left to me, i would have dithered and never been able to figure out 5 distinguishable choices. ultimately, i'm surprised i have any books rated 3 at all -- i thought i was either hot or cold -- on books, and on everything. maybe i'm more tepid as i get older.

i am looking forward to listening to this. we had a wasteland party in high school where our class was asked to come as our favourite "paris in the 20s" writer and i came as joyce: smushed one of my dad's hats down on my head, and blinked a lot behind my john lennon sun glasses (i didn't need glasses back then). i also memorized this part of finnegans wake and said it to anyone who talked to me during the class:

Eins within a space and a wearywide space it wast ere wohned a Mookse. The onesomeness wast alltolonely, archunsitslike, broady oval, and a Mookse he would a walking go (My hood! cries Antony Romeo), so one grandsumer evening, after a great morning and his good supper of gammon and spittish, having flabelled his eyes, pilleoled his nostrils, vacticanated his ears and palliumed his throats, he put on his impermeable, seized his impugnable, harped on his crown and stepped out of his immobile De Rure Albo (socolled becauld it was chalkfull of masterplasters and had borgeously letout gardens strown with cascadas, pinta-costecas, horthoducts and currycombs) and set off from Luds— town a spasso to see how badness was badness in the weirdest of all pensible ways.

i did well on that project. funny how joyce was so much easier for me to read when i was 17 -- probably i had more space in my brain then. :)

Ben wrote: "that happened to one of my roommates in college, doing statue of liberty shots. he damn near burned his arm off. then he quit drinking and became boring."

did he talk about jute all the time?

adrian: thanks for posting this. i'm obviously a fan of the drunken writers though not drunks in general. what's great about this is all the comments below from other people suggesting other drunks. i don't know if i'll bother with all this recovered alcoholic fiction though. sounds terrible dry to me. :P

don't forget there are two copies. margaret has sent one to the skipper. i am sending the one i will eventually get to dan. who i think is sending it to lauren. kerry wants in. maybe we need a sign up sheet for both books?

Michael wrote: "Chris wrote: "Adrian wrote: "God, look at the moderators! It appears to be an Internet rogues gallery.

I think the moderators should have to wear outrageous costumes and fight each other in an a..."

i think if you can't figure out how to change people's aliases on your own, i'm not going to help you. :)

hey shel: i haven't had a chance to finish the story yet... last week of some freelance work i've been doing. i promise i will try to come back today. :)

Slowrabbit wrote: "
http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/a-..."

hi patrick!!! thanks for posting !!! that was astonishing!!! :P

i am sure ms. smyles would not approve of my exclamation point use in the welcome thread. :)

at first i liked what she was saying, but by the end she kind of seemed to be a bit of a prig. i agree that greece is probably not ridiculous or sick and shouldn't be characterized as such, but really, she must have understood that he was flinging the lingo. flingo the lingo? let us consider. anyway. if she hadn't written "CD's" instead of "CDs" i might have been more empathetic. :)

Maureen wrote: "Dan wrote: "Pavel wrote: "Well this looks like a good place to put this. Anyone else think 50 posts per page a bit rough? Any way to change it? 25, 20, or 15 like old Jon's basement?"

You know Pav..."

Well you guys: I actually got a response to my email about Pavel's suggestion! What a nice switch! Here it is!

Hi Maureen,

Currently, the number of posts per page is not customizable, but that's a great suggestion - thanks! We actually already have something like that on our "to do" list, but every time someone makes a suggestion, it makes it more likely that we'll get to it sooner. So thanks for writing in!

Best,
Jessica

Chris wrote: "Anytime anybody wants to read "The Big Sleep" or "Farewell, My Lovely" by Chandler, let me know...and I'm always up for some Garcia Marquez, although it seems like "100 Years" has dropped off the l..."

hey swanny: i could do some revisiting of chandler -- do you have a timeline at all? or can we approach it leisurely in the next month or so... ?

Margaret wrote: "my copy went to JE but it was the no fun copy. No notes or drawings."

the skipper will probably take it into the tub with him. or let his dogs and bunnies nibble on it. :)

p.s. obviously that goes for patty's poetry group as well. :)

Margaret wrote: "You know I've been really worried about what will happen to all of the fiction files little babies. Will people just abandon them because they are on myspace? Is this an ugly divorce with the child..."

hey margaret: i think part of the reason we had to split off those other groups (besides the fact that the skipper originally conceived of it as a fiction group) was because we couldn't have sub-topics, whereas here we can. should you desire to set up an essay group with its own folder (either withe egret or matija or by yourself) at a later date, i think people would be happy. when i started making the folders i put in things like "theoretically speaking" for those theory junkies, and "on writing" for people who wanted to talk about the craft, and while we did touch on those in the old group they were never really topically specific. :)

my 2 cents. :)

Matt wrote: let's just say I'd like to leave my options open

(on the other hand I just accidentally deleted someone's post and now I feel terrible - maybe this is too much power for me)

i hope that you wrote the person and told them you were repentant. i could always delete one of your posts if it would make you feel better. :)