a day for cooling drinks

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York was good, and I picked up a few Giles cartoon books to fill gaps in my collection, and a few others as well, but (as promised by the weather forecast) it was hot. Very hot.

Things to do tomorrow: write, sew, clean. Possibly read.

I'm also suffering from the urge to reread all the Modesty Blaise books I have. I'm not sure why: possibly due to the appearance of a rather good Modesty Blaise (and Willie Garvin) homage in the new Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex. Well, the books are just sitting there on the shelf, and there's no point keeping books around if you aren't going to reread them at least sometimes . . .

---

Mr. Fibuli: Captain, sir.
The Captain: Speak, Mr. Fibuli.
Mr. Fibuli: The Psychic Interference Transmitter, sir; There seems to be something counter-jamming it.
The Captain: What!? We Dematerialize in three minutes! [into a loudspeaker] ALL GUARDS ON ALERT! SOMEONE IS USING A COUNTER-JAMMING FREQUENCY PROJECTOR! FIND IT AND DESTROY IT IMMEDIATELY!!!
Mr. Fibuli: Captain, do you suppose any of the guards know what a "Counter-Jamming Frequency Projector" looks like?
Pause
The Captain: [into the loudspeaker] DESTROY EVERYTHING!!!

-- Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

OMG Modesty Blaise. Our copies sat on the radiator in the water closet-- it *was* a WC with nothing else in it, so not a powder room or half-bath or whatever they call the things these days, but v. useful when four people share one bathroom. Thus I have read bits of Modesty Blaise many times. I assume my sister took the copies when we all moved out.

Natch I dare not reread any of it for fear of the Suck Fairy. Some of those passages were sucky even at the time.

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Now that I come to it with an adult eye, some of the passages are definitely sucky now. But there are flashes of good bits too, and the fight descriptions are (or at least seem to my eye) to be well done.

[archangelbeth]

Books are for reading! O:D

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That they are! (Even the ones in the Library get read . . .)