RIP Harper Lee

[casecandy]

Not much to say that couldn't be said more eloquently than others.

To Kill A Mockingbird will always be Top 10 material for me.

Raise a glass to the writer who gave us Atticus and Scout.

As a high school English teacher, I'll say it's the end of an era. She was a patron saint of sorts...

[casecandy]

*more cynically*

Can't wait for people all over the Interworld to start hijacking her death for their political gain in 3, 2, 1...

[weed_killer]

She was a patron saint of sorts...

I've got little to do tonight and what there is I don't feel like getting around to, so I'll bite. Patron saint of what exactly? To me she always seemed to be thrust upon everyone as an objective clause in english class, the female Salinger and equally as untouchable. I liked the book for what it was and what it did, but I never really got the specifics behind the whole iron-clad reputation she's been protected by since then, especially given her failure to capitalize or expand on the first work (the 'new' one doesn't count cause I'm talking near to immediate situations/time period), unlike say the success of 'On the Road' allowing Kerouac the chance to finally start getting his collection of other manuscripts released and eventually being able to provide readers with a context and comprehension of himself as a writer/storyteller.

[SPACERITUAL]

Thanks for writing your piece of shit that i was forced to read and then given a bad grade when i called it a piece of shit at the end. Fuck you.

[weed_killer]

Thanks for writing your piece of shit that i was forced to read and then given a bad grade when i called it a piece of shit at the end. Fuck you.

See, I can get behind this sooner than 'patron saint of sorts'.

[casecandy]

Haha, this happens so frequently around here. I used to get mad and now I like it. Me, I'm a purple prose, gushing type of person whose instinct is to canonize people. Most other people on here, their instinct is to be iconoclastic and point out the flaws in allegedly great works. It's a clash sometimes.

Patron saint might have been over the top. But I think Atticus Finch shows me what a good person looks like and how you can be a good person and fight for change, even inside a system that wants to chew you up and spit you out and probably will, let's face it.

It's when you know you're licked before you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I honestly have a tattoo of imagery from this book taking up my entire upper right arm, it's that important to me as a teacher and as a person, period.

http://genius.com/2619187

[D.o.S.]

well everyone makes mistakes

[gnomethrone]

to mill a kocking bird by LARPER HEE wuz gud book. I also like the sequal 2KILL 2FURIOUS. Vin Diesel is gud.

REST IN PIECE, LARPER HEE

[casecandy]

I wonder if it's fun to be a LARPer though

[SPACERITUAL]

I wonder if it's fun to be a LARPer though

Ive often wondered if its not actually where all the snooter is at kinda like being in band in high school

[gnomethrone]

Does snooter mean nose drugs or genitals?

Also:
A 1991 survey of 5,000 Americans conducted by the Library of Congress to determine which book had made the greatest difference in their readers’ lives listed To Kill A Mockingbird as second only to the Bible.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/20/books ... 59091.html

Question:
What two books have had the biggest impact on your life?

[weed_killer]

nah, that's fair. I wasn't trying to be iconoclastic, just curious, but your answer makes sense to me.

[snipelfritz]

to mill a kocking bird by LARPER HEE wuz gud book. I also like the sequal 2KILL 2FURIOUS. Vin Diesel is gud.

REST IN PIECE, LARPER HEE

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo45o69HaKI[/youtube]

[casecandy]

Question: What two books have had the biggest impact on your life?

The King James Bible and The Historical Atlas Of World Mythology, Vol. 1: The Way Of The Animal Powers by Joseph Campbell.

But there are a lot of books in that league. To Kill A Mockingbird, The Catcher In The Rye, The Martian Chronicles, any number of other Joseph Campbell books including The Hero With A Thousand Faces, a 1945 edition of Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft I found in my great-grandfather's library. The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, all of Stephen Pinker's books, all of Richard Dawkins's books.

And there are untold dozens of books, of which one line or two pops into my thoughts now and then. An example would be Zone One by Colson Whitehead, it's a zombie apocalypse book, wherein the soldiers are doing sweeps of apartments, clearing out the zombies, and they sometimes stumble upon the corpses of lovers still entwined on their couches, melted candles around them, and it says, "a reminder that there were once people other than survivors in the world." And I think about, which am I? A survivor or not? I think about that a lot.

[D.o.S.]

Does snooter mean nose drugs or genitals?

It's the poon, dude.