Since I'm online and have just a minute (it's hot and I have hanging baskets in the car, but they should be fine for a little while), I should go look for Vonda McIntyre.
Eliot... how can I say how important he was to my nascence as a writer? I was reading all the books I could off the "these are too old for you" list I managed to get a look at, at school, age 12 or 13 or so, and one of them was On the Beach, about the people in Australia being the last survivors on Earth as a radioactive cloud from all-out war slowly spread. Its title came from "The Hollow Men." I immediately went looking for "The Hollow Men."
I later wrote a senior-year paper on that poem, and basically got no grade on it... my teacher, who was only about 26, realized I was talking about stuff she didn't know herself, and so gave it to one of her professors at the Univ of Pittsburgh... sadly, I never got the paper back. Nor any chats with that professor. Even when anyone recognized my gifts, back then, nothing ever came of it. So frustrating. And still perplexing.
Would you like to see The Waltons at all? I can oblige.
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Date: 2008-06-11 10:27 pm (UTC)Eliot... how can I say how important he was to my nascence as a writer? I was reading all the books I could off the "these are too old for you" list I managed to get a look at, at school, age 12 or 13 or so, and one of them was On the Beach, about the people in Australia being the last survivors on Earth as a radioactive cloud from all-out war slowly spread. Its title came from "The Hollow Men." I immediately went looking for "The Hollow Men."
I later wrote a senior-year paper on that poem, and basically got no grade on it... my teacher, who was only about 26, realized I was talking about stuff she didn't know herself, and so gave it to one of her professors at the Univ of Pittsburgh... sadly, I never got the paper back. Nor any chats with that professor. Even when anyone recognized my gifts, back then, nothing ever came of it. So frustrating. And still perplexing.
Would you like to see The Waltons at all? I can oblige.