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9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

Thank you. This is now my head canon.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Best Part Of J... · 0 replies · +3 points

I was about to reply that "Get me, sister?" (imagined in Humphrey Bogart's voice) would be even better, then saw your reply. Synchronicity!

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Holidays Sad Ficti... · 0 replies · +12 points

Indeed it is. I love the confluence of Russ, Tiptree, and Woolf, three such amazing women writers.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +34 points

I am saving "couldn't find a sex partner in a free love commune" for future insult use.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Holidays Sad Ficti... · 3 replies · +67 points

This reminded me so strongly of Joanna Russ's short-short story "It's Important To Believe", in which time-travelling aliens go back to 1941 and rescue Virginia Woolf from suicide by drowning. It's short enough to quote the whole thing, but I expect that would be a copyright violation, so I'll just sample:

"That they plucked her from the muddy pond where she lay, breathing life back into her. That they emptied the stones from her jacket pockets. . . . That they fed her and she didn't refuse, no longer believing the body to be horrible. . . . That she asked for her manuscripts and they had them.
That they went there.
That it was a good place."

9 years ago @ The Toast - Texts From Samuel Cole... · 0 replies · +8 points

I once calmed a crying baby by walking the floor with her and reciting Coleridge's Kubla Khan. It was the only thing that worked. Babies love them some poetry.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +1 points

Those are in no way shorts, they are extremely skimpy gonch!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Additional Love Languages · 0 replies · +6 points

Mentioning the name Wild Bill Hickok might be useful in your negotiations.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Every Meal In We H... · 0 replies · +8 points

We Have Always Lived In the Castle is one of the favourite books of my life, and Mallory has just made it better. I would not have believed it possible.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Every Meal In We H... · 0 replies · +1 points

That's an abomination!

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