Sunday, September 15, 2024

Syllabus #265

Life is relentless.

 



I haven't read this article about a school librarian turned activist yet.  Just dropping it here as a reminder.

I beg to differ about hackberries.  They're the worst.  One almost took out my car, and we had to spend thousands to have it removed because it was a crumbling abomination of nature.


Analog Reading:

I finished reading Carrie and started reading It on Friday the 13th.  That seems fitting.  The ending of Carrie was a lot more drawn out than I remember from the movie version.  If I recall correctly, the movie ends when she goes home and has a knock-down, drag-out, telekinetic stabbing fight with momma, and the house burns down, the end.  In the book, Carrie goes home from the prom and kills her mother, but goes back out afterwards.  Then, the whole town just about blows up and burns down, and Carrie dies in the parking lot of a roadhouse.  

Now I'm reading It, and I would pay money to have been a fly on the wall the first time an agent or editor read this book, and they're like, ok, little boy chasing a paper boat into a storm drain...sees some scary yellow eyes in the sewer...and it's a...the fuck?  A clown?  I dunno, man, seems weird.

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