"It's like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can't read just yet." (2)

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday, I wrote an absolutely pathetic 511 words, which may or may not be viable, and I'm left wondering who will murder me first, my agent or my editor. Either way, they would be rendering upon my person a spot of mercy. To quote the astoundingly sexy and well-armed Zoe Washburne

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[lauowolf]

500 words may feel wimpy to you, but I have had freshman comp students weep at the idea.

[greygirlbeast]

Then they should be flogged and forced to try harder.

[lauowolf]

Sadly, the first wasn't an option.
Though I'd have been waaaay for it for the ones who plagiarized from Cliff Notes or the introduction to the assigned texts.
(Not only didn't you write it, but you didn't een cheat right.)
Lots of hand holding otherwise.
Words can be just scary.

[greygirlbeast]

(Not only didn't you write it, but you didn't een cheat right.)

This is why we punch people in their ears! That's like getting a D-. Not even being able to fail properly.

And now I will spend the day thinking of holding severed hands.

[sovay]

It's never sourced, though I believe Wikipedia attributes the sentiment/observation to some or another book on fairies.

It's a condensation of some statements made by C.S. Lewis in The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964). Discussing various theories on the nature of fairies:

"(4) That they are fallen angels; in other words, devils. This bcomes almost the official view after the accession of James I. 'That kind of Devils conversing in the earth', he says (Daemonologie, III, i) 'may be divided in foure different kindes . . . the fourth is these kinde of spirites that are called vulgarlie the Fayrie'. Burton includes among terrestrial devils 'Lares, Genii, Fauns, Satyrs, Wood-Nymphs, Foliots, Fairies, Robin Good-fellow, Trulli, etc

[greygirlbeast]

Gods, I knew I should have written you yesterday. Spooky evens aid so. I knew all this, only I couldn't find the line in Midsummer, even after reading all of Orberon's bits.

Thanks...

[sovay]

I knew all this, only I couldn't find the line in Midsummer, even after reading all of Oberon's bits.

Yeah. The internet sucks. There is nothing about church bells in the actual play.

Thanks...

No problem. Let me know if there's anything else I can do.

[eredien]

I recently read a truly, truly excellent book of transcribed oral Irish folktales about fairies, I believe there may have been a chapter of stories specifically about fairy interaction with Christian church belief and artifact:

Title: Meeting the other crowd : the fairy stories of hidden Ireland
Author: Lenihan, Edmund.
ISBN: 9781585422067

[troublebox]

Subterranean makes a beautiful book. I keep taking the dust jacket off _Confessions_ and feeling the nice soft leather.

[greygirlbeast]

Yes, they do.

[humglum]

That leather is nice. Very buttery, like glove leather. it was a pleasant surprise.

[rarelytame]

I agree with everyone here who loves Subterranean's book binding and printing methods, but I just feel compelled to tell you that I'm really loving the stories inside the book a great deal more than I love the binding and printing, and that the words are the best part by far.

I expect the other folks commenting here feel similarly, but sometimes a thing that probably goes without saying begs to be said anyway.

[andrian6]

My copy of Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart arrived earlier this week, but as I was sitting for a friend I could not get my grubby little protuberances on it until just now. They've done a wonderful job with the book - it feels solid and delicious in my hand.

Is it too early to start asking about frame-able print versions of the cover?

It's never sourced, though I believe Wikipedia attributes the sentiment/observation to some or another book on fairies.

Or a plant. Like people who keep throwing up sites with "magnum arcanum john doe" in the metadata, just to mess with Unknown Armies fans.