@hntdove.bsky.social Could you explain to me a 25 year old joke? In the intro to "The Last Word" you mention that one of the bit players became prominent in the real world, but going over the text I can't winkle it out
March 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
@hntdove.bsky.social Could you explain to me a 25 year old joke? In the intro to "The Last Word" you mention that one of the bit players became prominent in the real world, but going over the text I can't winkle it out
That bastard really did take the secret of how they make the baby in Eraserhead to his grave. #DavidLynch
January 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
That bastard really did take the secret of how they make the baby in Eraserhead to his grave. #DavidLynch
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@cstross.bsky.social Appreciate you let that throwaway line "Case Nightmare Green" determine the course of the Laundry Files. After a quarter of a century the only loss I feel is that you subsequently abandoned each novel being a parody/homage of a suspense writer (le Carré, Flemming, Deighton)
December 2, 2024 at 2:19 PM
@cstross.bsky.social Appreciate you let that throwaway line "Case Nightmare Green" determine the course of the Laundry Files. After a quarter of a century the only loss I feel is that you subsequently abandoned each novel being a parody/homage of a suspense writer (le Carré, Flemming, Deighton)
Reading the new Murakami, I discovered a 1920 collection of speeches by a Samoan chief that was globally popular (including Japan) but had zero cultural impact in the English world (1st translation: 1975). Erich Scheurmann's hoax "The Papalagi". Much is lost when it ain't in English it dosen't exist
December 2, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Reading the new Murakami, I discovered a 1920 collection of speeches by a Samoan chief that was globally popular (including Japan) but had zero cultural impact in the English world (1st translation: 1975). Erich Scheurmann's hoax "The Papalagi". Much is lost when it ain't in English it dosen't exist