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What's the best thing about NYC?
Its intelligence, its magnanimity, its generosity.
What's your favorite fairy tale?
Impossible to pick one. But some favorites are "The Seven Swans," "East of the Sun, West of the Moon," "The White Snake," "Godfather Death,""Toads and Diamonds," and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses."
But I must give a special nod to Andrew Lang's version of Sleeping Beauty, in The Blue Fairy Book, for this amusing touch:
The Prince has at this point rescued and wed Beauty, and has two children, named Morning and Day. "But he never dared to trust [his mother]; he feared her, though he loved her, for she was of the race of the Ogres, [...] had Ogreish inclinations, and [...] whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to avoid falling upon them. [...]
[Then] the Queen-mother sent her daughter-in-law to a country house among the woods, that she might with the more ease gratify her horrible longing. Some few days afterward she [...] said to her clerk of the kitchen:
'I have a mind to eat little Morning for my dinner to- morrow.'
'Ah! madam,' cried the clerk of the kitchen.
'I will have it so,' replied the Queen (and this she spoke in the tone of an Ogress who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), 'and will eat her with a sauce Robert.' " [etc.]
Sauce Robert is a bottled steak sauce, like A-1 or Worcester sauce. My parents, who thought this fairy tale was hilarious, kept a bottle of the stuff on the kitchen counter and were very fond of putting it on the dinner table as a Dire Warning to Children Who Fight at Supper.
Who is your favorite Sayers character?
Meh. With the exception of Gaudy Night, I don't think Sayers did that well with characters. Most of them are only a little less cliché than Agatha Christie et al., but what she excelled at was prose style and wit. But In Gaudy Night I like Peter Wimsey very much, and some of the dons quite well.
What's your favorite anime to show people who don't think they're anime people?
Spirited Away.
Do you eat breakfast? What do you eat? Is it what you'd ideally want or a compromise?
Yes, coffee and coffee. Coffee. Yes and yes.
coffee_and_ink:What's the best thing about NYC?
Its intelligence, its magnanimity, its generosity.
What's your favorite fairy tale?
Impossible to pick one. But some favorites are "The Seven Swans," "East of the Sun, West of the Moon," "The White Snake," "Godfather Death,""Toads and Diamonds," and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses."
But I must give a special nod to Andrew Lang's version of Sleeping Beauty, in The Blue Fairy Book, for this amusing touch:
The Prince has at this point rescued and wed Beauty, and has two children, named Morning and Day. "But he never dared to trust [his mother]; he feared her, though he loved her, for she was of the race of the Ogres, [...] had Ogreish inclinations, and [...] whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to avoid falling upon them. [...]
[Then] the Queen-mother sent her daughter-in-law to a country house among the woods, that she might with the more ease gratify her horrible longing. Some few days afterward she [...] said to her clerk of the kitchen:
'I have a mind to eat little Morning for my dinner to- morrow.'
'Ah! madam,' cried the clerk of the kitchen.
'I will have it so,' replied the Queen (and this she spoke in the tone of an Ogress who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), 'and will eat her with a sauce Robert.' " [etc.]
Sauce Robert is a bottled steak sauce, like A-1 or Worcester sauce. My parents, who thought this fairy tale was hilarious, kept a bottle of the stuff on the kitchen counter and were very fond of putting it on the dinner table as a Dire Warning to Children Who Fight at Supper.
Who is your favorite Sayers character?
Meh. With the exception of Gaudy Night, I don't think Sayers did that well with characters. Most of them are only a little less cliché than Agatha Christie et al., but what she excelled at was prose style and wit. But In Gaudy Night I like Peter Wimsey very much, and some of the dons quite well.
What's your favorite anime to show people who don't think they're anime people?
Spirited Away.
Do you eat breakfast? What do you eat? Is it what you'd ideally want or a compromise?
Yes, coffee and coffee. Coffee. Yes and yes.
