Comments on: the holland book

By: muttertag

muttertag — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:05:26 +0000

Good informations, keep up the good work.

By: gyshen

gyshen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:12:21 +0000

I was thrilled to read Winterson’s article. Not only was it pleasure to read but, her experience had some parallels to mine. A major difference being that I am in Denver where there is no shortage of queers. Yet when I went to the counter of my favorite bookstore looking for “The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For” I got a blank stare from the older man behind the counter. I had to repeat the title about three times and he came to the conclusion that I must be looking for a book about volatile embankments for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river. Luckily, I was able to see the screen of his computer and corrected his interpretation with, “no, Dykes as in queers not dikes as in Holland.” I blushed, the man gave me an odd look while the hipster girl behind the counter bit her lip and tried not to laugh. All and all it was an enjoyable day at my local metro bookseller.

By: madmollymillions@yahoo.co.uk

madmollymillions@yahoo.co.uk — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:22:04 +0000

i still can’t believe that i log on here for the first time and see someone who went to my old school. seriously. what are the chances of that :p

By: madmollymillions@yahoo.co.uk

madmollymillions@yahoo.co.uk — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:18:06 +0000

oh my god. i did too.(went to the high school for girls- surely you’re not a dyke?!) and i actually still live in gloucester. i’m not a tailor though.

By: Liv

Liv — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:37:01 +0000

Oh wow. I remember going on a date in Stow on a Sunday in the rain. Only Woolworth’s and the greasy spoon was open. We ended up sitting on a bench outside the church and staring at pigeons.

Representative of Gloucester High School for Girls, present!

By: NLC

NLC — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:42:07 +0000

Just FYI:

Following up the earlier discussion here of Obama inviting Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at next week inaguration…

…the NY Times is reporting this afternoon that Obama has invited Bishop Gene Robinson to deliver the invocation Sunday at a concert to kick off the inaugural celebrations.

By: Kate L

Kate L — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:14:23 +0000

Ginjoint,

The background on which our most sacred symbol rests in the conference poster is actually a light-colored granite outcrop, and the darker, vertical area that so suggestively cuts through the granite is, appropriately enough, the dyke igneous formation!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:16:24 +0000

Ellen, I agree with you about Winterson’s style and that feeling of disconnection in her recent work. But she does it so well (or rather, did it so well) that I enjoy it. I wouldn’t want every author to write like that, but I’m glad to have one around for that particular pleasure.

Very soon after I read “Written on the Body,” Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” came out. I found that “Jazz” reminded me of “Written on the Body,” and I enjoyed it more than anything else of Morrison’s that I’ve read. Which means, everything she’s written except “A Mercy.” I respect Morrison, but I’ve never enjoyed her work except for that one novel. Matter of taste.

By: Zeugma

Zeugma — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:19:22 +0000

Loving all the references to “soporific”. I vividly remember reading The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, when I was six, and coming across this unfamiliar word. When I asked my mother what it meant, and she explained, it’s something that, when you eat or drink it, it makes you sleepy — well,you know that thing Emily Dickinson said, that you can tell real poetry by how it takes the top of your head off? My mother’s explanation took the top of my head off. You can do that, in one word? Make it mean all that? I can date my life-long love affair with language to that exact moment.

By: Ginjoint

Ginjoint — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:27:00 +0000

No worries, Andrew! We’ve been called worse. Far, far worse.

Kate, not only does that hammer resemble a labrys, but that cement behind it…is…oddly suggestive…