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What's up with Piers Anthony? An analysis of his oeuvre, or rather poeurvre

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A garland of quotations CXXXVII Culled from the finest giggle-pusses in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday

It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
•The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

#rhps

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So the question is—did LL read Jack Vance?

I mean, probably. Seems like something they were all doing back in the day.

The "name" spells in the PH are mostly invented (researched and created) by PC wizards in the game. Leomund was Len Lakofka's character. (I can only remember this because LL for years wrote a column in Dragon called Leomund's Tiny Hut.)

This is a good find, but I'll throw you a wrinkle: Gary Gygax did not create the spell Leomund's tiny hut!

Well, as the gostaks say, these doshes aren't going to distim themselves.

Medusa, by Sam (Æ5).

*days

In two day! Tell your friends! Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT

Calling all Nutmeggers (and those who like to drive)! Can you find me among the teeming throngs of authors at Wethersfield?

It's got the dailies only, alas!

Will no one collect the NORB Sunday strips???

Oh and I am reminded that back on March 30 you explicitly told me not to do this. I am (much like Irving and Muktuk) worse than I remembered being!

Oh well.

I assume this is the kind of thing you do cunningly and intentionally: the Dadaist quote above would not fit in bsky, so I cut out the middle, which is quite literally "who kicked the old aunt in her rubber bum"

For I am the old aunt in this situation and thus the answer, the kicker, is you.

It honestly never even occurred to me. Although since I came to your bsky and trumpeted it to your followers, it probably should have. I apologize. I'm not very good at being a human.

who brought the panther into the tram it was I ladies and gentlemen I am the great event
•Huelsenbeck (1916)

Oh yeah. I probably should have done that.

But I think what you’ve said here is important and interesting, and I think I agree with much of it. I started writing a response, but because I am long-winded it rapidly outgrew bsky's character limits, and I am congenitally confused by threads…so maybe elsewhere, some time…

Never an ill wind etc., and people have been telling me their own theories on the Pinkwater canon. I've learned a lot! Ian Stoba (my collaborator on the Hoboken Emergencylopedia) pointed out the significance on 1003 in Muffin Fiend, and I went out and got a DVD of Don Giovanni from my local library.

I'm curious how much abuse Walter Hogan got for The Agony and the Eggplant!

I wrote that! Oh, and I have almost finished an updated version that runs up through Jules, Penny, and the Rooster.

(In case I wasn't annoying enough before…)

(Though there are any number of non-DMP books this emphatically did not work with, and no matter how much my kid loves Elbow Grease …@#*^$!&# Elbow Grease…)