And a burning sensation that is rarely the consequence of a great notion

[randomhouses]

Eram quod es, eris quod sum

Chapter 25
Sometimes a Strange Longing

Comments

[suninos]

Hey, it's New Jersey. They could just pretend the senator was into kinky things with some crime rings.

I'm sorry you had to look up disembowelment. On the other hand, I had to ask my dad the meaning of that word when I was 10 years old while reading a fantasy novel. That was pretty, er... awkward? Silly online translators...

In a masterstroke of brilliance, I accidentally made the senator's name give away more of his background than I realized. My co-author caught it and I'm just pretending I planned it all along. Don't think about it too hard, though, because most of the information you'd need to make the connection hasn't been written yet.

Yeah, it was intended to be Mary Poppins (up to the point where she gets snatched by a dinosaur and ravished, which, frankly, would've made for quite a different story). I'm not familiar with Kästner (apart from my reading of his Wikipedia article). What work of his does that remind you of?

They're very mysterious doctors :) And the answer is: very evil. She is Evil Nurse Brenda, after all. Don't worry, Foreman will be unwillingly engaging in a cross-country detective investigation of her pack of doctors.

[stillbrainfried]

In that case you should throw the Sopranos in ;-)

Maybe I should have paid more attention when I visited the Tower of London. On the other hand, there was surprisingly little torture going on. I'm just wondering why the English wikipedia article on disembowelment is much longer than the German one...

Hmmm, Snyder => Schneider? That would be the obvious one, but since it's obvious I don't think that's the real one... (I know, I know, no comment)

That would be "The flying classroom". It's definitely my favourite Erich Kästner book. And the character I thought of was Uli von Simmern. To stop the others making fun of him (he's rich but neglected by his busy parents and not very brave but a very nice guy) he decides to jump out of a school window using an umbrella and breaks his leg. So thinking of the outcome this fits a bit better than Mary Poppins ;-)

Looking forward to the investigation. I already can imagine the look on Foreman's face...

[randomhouses]

Well, we've altered/explained so many quirks in our canon material, we might as well tackle what happened after the screen suddenly went black in the finale (I'm favoring alien-induced eclipse plus electromagnetic pulse turning out the lights).

Wow, the German article is short. Disembowelment is a surprisingly popular topic in English. Looking at the article (after first being concerned whether there would be pictures present), I'm surprised the English one isn't longer. Its use is not uncommon in fiction, especially when involving Japanese history or in more violent works in action, sci-fi, and fantasy genres. But... we do like our disturbing violence.

That's actually the obvious connection I missed. But the truth behind the connection will be unclear for a while.

That book looks interesting. I'll have to look it up sometime. I was expecting an actual flying classroom. Silly me.

Poor Foreman won't know what hit him, especially since I'm using the opportunity to cameo other canons that we decided we couldn't include as full participants, like how we've used Hitchhiker's Guide and Harry Potter.

[stillbrainfried]

Well, it's a children's book from the 1930's but the topic is friendship so it's never really old... And if you're looking for a film version I recommend the 2003 one (although I don't know if it was ever released in English) where the play is a musical (which makes sense as it is set in the Thomaner boarding school in Leipzig)

CSI:NY?