and you can't hold me down, 'cause i belong to the hurricane; it's gonna blow us all away.

[intrikate88]

My coworker just said, "I never knew the Chronicles of Narnia was a book! How long has it been out?"

*FACE. DESK*

I need more icon space for Narnia and White Collar icons, in other news. LJ, get on that already. People have been begging for more icon space for YEARS.

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[rthstewart]

You know, I've heard the same thing about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz, and Lord of the Rings, as well as those movies about the Wizard kid.

[intrikate88]

I occasionally have, too, but it was flabberghasting (is that a word?) to walk right into that conversation sort of sent me spinning around walking out. I think I had been thinking of your fics and my fics and Narnia at the time too, so it took much effort to keep from exclaiming "I read Narnia when I was a little kid! I'VE BEEN WRITING NARNIA FIC SINCE I WAS EIGHT OKAY?"

[fiction_junkie]

that level of idiocy is just depressing. It's one thing to have never READ the Narnia books (or LotR, Alice, HP and Oz) but it's quite another to have never HEARD of them...

I second the *FACE.DESK* motion. :P

[intrikate88]

And the woman who said it has been around me and my literary ramblign for six years. She should have picked up on something! Although I strongly suspect no one there listens to a word I say, as they have decided I am Smart, and therefore will not ever say anything they understand so why even try.

[mabus101]

Sometimes you just want to dope slap people....

[intrikate88]

All the fucking time.

[a2zmom]

that is just sad.

[intrikate88]

It is. I mean, this isn't like asking why on earth someone can't come up with the titles of John Dryden's works, this is modern popular literature...

[lady_songsmith]

Ow. Just ow.

[intrikate88]

I could have injured myself, leaving that conversation as fast as I did to avoid accidentally brutally insulting someone. It's a popular series that I've written fic for since I was eight years old, not obscure drafts of Mabingion branches or something.

[rthstewart]

Ha! I read Prydain after Narnia and spent several years in grade school trying to track down the original Mabinogian. Sigh.

[lady_songsmith]

I found the Mabinogion surprisingly disappointing when I finally laid hands on it. Possibly because the translation I read (I cannot remember which now) was some of the densest text I ever had the misfortune to come across.