[LMB] Convert and quotation

[Sessions, Jennifer Robin]

You are not at all alone in this.
as a compulsive walking quotation machine, I've led many friends into being Miles partisans by spouting appropriate passages.


I've been reading Bujold during my formative years, and as I grow up and reread and think on her characters, themes and zingers I get more back everytime in that (heh) as she's said the questions never changed but the answers did. I guess what I mean is that I used to have Miles as a role model, and Mark supplanted him and was in turn eased out by Galeni.  It's probably dangerous, but I find it extremely comforting. ("there are people, that are amazing people and they think and react like me, wowie")

Speaker Karal in Mountains of Mourning telling Miles that people need extraordinary examples "if he can do that, I can surely do this." 

Is that what you meant?

Jenny Sessions

Nevertheless, The Turtle Moves



-----Original Message-----
From: lois-bujold-bounces at lists.herald.co.uk on behalf of Marna Nightingale
Sent: Wed 7/5/2006 4:00 PM
To: Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster Bujold.
Subject: [LMB] Convert and quotation
 
So, I've made a new convert; the same friend who observed, halfway 
through watching Firefly, that her friends were, by and large, 
apparently less clever and witty than she had been giving them credit 
for. :)

I've had to warn her that reading Lois will probably have the same 
effect on her opinion of me, though it may be balanced out by the fact 
that I probably make more _sense_ when one has read Lois.

ASIDE from the considerable intrinsic pleasure of the material, this is. :)

IS it just me, or have we all reached the stage, not so much of 'quoting 
Bujold' as of absorbing large chunks of the boosk into our brains?

I'm aware of the dangers attendant on making any Lois character, 
especially one's role model, mind :)

But there are lot of bits that stick, simply because they express a 
thing I already feel to be true better than I can express it.

(Most recently, and memorably, and regrettably, 'If THAT's what you 
believe, WHY ARE YOU STANDING IN MY WAY?' It's a long dull story, of 
which the moral is: if somebody's simultaneously a) telling you that 
you're a much meaner and scarier person than they are and therefore have 
to be gentle and supportive with them at all times _and_ b) going out of 
their way to get up your nose, _you're being gamed_. Yeah, obvious in 
retrospect, but I SO owe Lois one for articulating that useful concept ...)

So, is it just me?

Marna.







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