pomes, and other

[jazzfish]

Some must employ the scythe, a paean to testing (among other things). I had no idea that Abi, in addition to being a bookbinder, poet, ML frontpager, and possessor of a cool name, was a software tester. My formerly boundless respect for her has extended into new dimensions. (Especially after this comment.)

Especially for mikailborg (although if she's gotten around to reading Bridge of Birds yet, darkfyre_muse may be interested as well): The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, soon to be reissued by Subterranean Press. The link includes the text of the jacket copy, written by Mr Hughart for the new omnibus edition.

It's National Poetry Month. So here's a happy poem and a less happy one. Both are true. (I'm not sure how to identify the emotion in the second. Recognition? Resignation? It's one I run across in myself on occasion, and it generally evokes a confused "Huh. That's odd.")

Comments

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox

Awesome! Bridge of Birds is one of those books that I keep around because I like it but afterwards I can never remember what it was about, so then I reread it a while later.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness someone else does this too! I love Zelazny but pretty much anything other than The Chronicles of Amber slip right out of my head a month after I'm done reading it.

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Heck, that's what I did with Lord of the Rings about every year for over 10 years; it just wouldn't stick in my head.

[jazzfish]

Exactly! I'm like that with all three of those. I remember that they're really awesome but I don't remember much about them other than that.

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of the others. I keep thinking I should look for them or order them and then I go off and do something else.

[jazzfish]

Only the first one's in print. Eight Skilled Gentlemen (the third) can be ordered new from Amazon somehow, but Story of the Stone's hard to find. But, hey, omnibus in October!

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Yay omnibus! What is the plural of that? Omnibi? Been a while since college Latin. I vote "omnibodes". Just bought the Narnia one and promptly wrote the correct book numbers on the edge of the pages so I could read them in the right order more easily.
Is there a Mars/Barsoom/John Carter etc omnibus yet?

[jazzfish]

It's already plural. :7 It means "with all." I like "omnibodes," though.

When I worked at Waldens I would occasionally disturb customers purchasing the Narnia books by muttering under my breath "2-4-5-6-3-1-7!"

Mars: I have no idea. It looks like you can buy them in six volumes, though.

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

...Wait, that would put LWW next to last...

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I see.