Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:36:52 -0600 From: lady wynter Subject: Re: [WRITERS] INT: The eMJay award interviews, par four (FORE!) Only three books? For a whole year? Whaddaya tryin' to do to me? _The Complete Works of the Brothers Grimm_ Why? I love fairy tales, for one thing. And if I'm captured by the elves, perhaps this will make them a little more kindly disposed... _Good Faeries/Bad Faeries_ by Brian Froud Did I mention I love fairy tales? _Fiction Writer's Workshop_ by Josip Novakovich_ If I'm sealed away for a year, i'll work through every single exercise fifty times or so, using the above books for inspiration. cheers, wynter the rags of time... wrote: > > [in case you are trying to figure out what is going on, take a trip over the > Web to the emjay98 pages > and see if you can figure it out... it certainly is puzzling!] > > Today, with the meteors whizzing, turkeys running for shelter with just days > to go to Thanksgiving, and all the rest of the fun, we have a simple > experiment in hypothetical situations for you. > > The world's finest bookstores are opening their doors for you to pick any > three books. Name them and they're yours... > > The only catch is this -- you are about to be sealed away for a year, with > these three books as your only amusement. Food, drink, medical care, etc. > will be provided so you don't need the survival manuals, just something that > you wouldn't mind reading... and reading again... and again. > > If it will help, you might assume that you are about to be captured by the > elves (they probably don't provide their mortal companions with much in the > way of reading material, although you may not have a great deal of time to > dally...). Or perhaps you are about to be sealed into a travel cubicle, to > be sent far, far away to a galaxy on the edge of forever? What about simply > walled up with a cask of...no, that's not a good one. > > Anyway -- what three books would you choose to spend a year with? > > (and remember, SMILE! the judges like that...) > > "...I wander'd off by myself > In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, > Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." > Walt Whitman > > tink -- A short story is a kiss; a novel is a seduction.