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The shattered water made a misty din*
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 12:09 pmI see a bunch of new names in the f'list. Step up and introduce yourself if you like -- but in any case, welcome!
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kinzel has returned safe and sound from the Lightning Trip to Atlanta, bringing with him a large number of Lee and Miller books. While the Road Trip Special is now closed, there are still books to be had! A comprehensive list will appear pretty soon at a website near you. In the meantime, if you're in need of a Liaden Universe(R) book, drop me a note; we might just be able to help you out.
Speaking of books,kinzel, in his hat as SRM Publisher, Ltd., has acquired about 50 copies of the Meisha Merlin trade paperback edition of Hellspark. This is one of our favorite books, possibly the only book (besides ours) of which we own multiple copies, so that we don't have to fight over who gets to reread it. Linguistics, mystery, culture clash, first contact, AI -- oh, it's marvelous! If you haven't read it, you must! Really. Yes, I mean right now.
In other news, it has stopped raining, and the wind has died down to nothing more than a mellow breeze. The ocean basically chewed up and spat out Camp Ellis and Ferry Beach; other coastal towns are still assessing damages. I'm particularly sorry for the loss of Camp Ellis -- an interesting if ramshackle town situated suicidally in the very teeth of the ocean. Every time a nor'easter hit, Camp Ellis took it on the chin. This time, while the camp was still reeling from losses sustained on St. Patrick's Day, the ocean took streets, homes, cars; picked up the non-trivial boulders that made up the sea wall and bounced them around like basketballs. Sigh. You can only give the finger to the Storm Ghod for so long... I hope the Multitude of Black Cats got safely to higher ground.
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*Once By The Ocean
Robert Frost
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the light was spoken.
Those who have been playing along at home will note that
kinzel has returned safe and sound from the Lightning Trip to Atlanta, bringing with him a large number of Lee and Miller books. While the Road Trip Special is now closed, there are still books to be had! A comprehensive list will appear pretty soon at a website near you. In the meantime, if you're in need of a Liaden Universe(R) book, drop me a note; we might just be able to help you out.Speaking of books,
kinzel, in his hat as SRM Publisher, Ltd., has acquired about 50 copies of the Meisha Merlin trade paperback edition of Hellspark. This is one of our favorite books, possibly the only book (besides ours) of which we own multiple copies, so that we don't have to fight over who gets to reread it. Linguistics, mystery, culture clash, first contact, AI -- oh, it's marvelous! If you haven't read it, you must! Really. Yes, I mean right now.In other news, it has stopped raining, and the wind has died down to nothing more than a mellow breeze. The ocean basically chewed up and spat out Camp Ellis and Ferry Beach; other coastal towns are still assessing damages. I'm particularly sorry for the loss of Camp Ellis -- an interesting if ramshackle town situated suicidally in the very teeth of the ocean. Every time a nor'easter hit, Camp Ellis took it on the chin. This time, while the camp was still reeling from losses sustained on St. Patrick's Day, the ocean took streets, homes, cars; picked up the non-trivial boulders that made up the sea wall and bounced them around like basketballs. Sigh. You can only give the finger to the Storm Ghod for so long... I hope the Multitude of Black Cats got safely to higher ground.
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*Once By The Ocean
Robert Frost
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the light was spoken.
