Post by littledavid on Jun 10, 2007 9:16:07 GMT -5
When the last Hairy Pot Head (as my step-daughter Jory calls them)
comes out
and now you've grown all up reading them
THEN you still have the "pretty much too intensely weird for children" EARTHSEA TRILOGY
from 1968
by Ursula K LeGuin
which is ALSO about following a boy and some other magic cadets through their adventures growing up in a secret magic academy
to be enrolled in this school you have to just accidentally (or IS it?)
somehow
FIND the door
no-one recruits you and brings you in
i'm
trying to see if it's free online somewhere because maybe it's in the public domain now
but meanwhile
here
this tells all about it:
scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/griffin.html
anyone like you and hennie penny who read the Potter books each year as they came out will really get into these
i'm sure
they're intense though
lemme warn ya
there's someone like Hermione
who's smarter
and more sensible
than the boys
but she's not as nice as Hermione
oh no
no friendly clever imp-ally, she!
but it's not her fault
she's raised from birth to assume the role of
(as Ezra pound once said): THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF A MODERN AND ETHICAL CULT
(alas-much like most of our mothers and aunts were)
only they're beyond mere ethical
more like eerie
and dark
and don't be messin with 'em
heavy voodoo
serious bad medicine
and they don't have beer in their blighted dimension
Oh now!
wouldya just look at THIS!
15 years old! 
In the REAL magic academy
this one woulda got the magic wand of correction across her magical little butt!
(for drinkin that eagle piss Corona!)
ACH!-and after all those years studying the higher precepts!
Gandalf is VERY disappointed in you, young lady!
Yer in Europe and you couldn't conjur some Guinness or St. Pauly Girl, or Heinekin?
Oh God! it's like the last line in Lord Of The Flies:
"I'd have thought BRITISH lassies would have made a better show of it"
comes out
and now you've grown all up reading them
THEN you still have the "pretty much too intensely weird for children" EARTHSEA TRILOGY
from 1968
by Ursula K LeGuin
which is ALSO about following a boy and some other magic cadets through their adventures growing up in a secret magic academy
to be enrolled in this school you have to just accidentally (or IS it?)
somehow
FIND the door
no-one recruits you and brings you in
i'm
trying to see if it's free online somewhere because maybe it's in the public domain now
but meanwhile
here
this tells all about it:
scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/griffin.html
anyone like you and hennie penny who read the Potter books each year as they came out will really get into these
i'm sure
they're intense though
lemme warn ya
there's someone like Hermione
who's smarter
and more sensible
than the boys
but she's not as nice as Hermione
oh no
no friendly clever imp-ally, she!
but it's not her fault
she's raised from birth to assume the role of
(as Ezra pound once said): THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF A MODERN AND ETHICAL CULT
(alas-much like most of our mothers and aunts were)
only they're beyond mere ethical
more like eerie
and dark
and don't be messin with 'em
heavy voodoo
serious bad medicine
and they don't have beer in their blighted dimension
Oh now!
wouldya just look at THIS!
15 years old!
In the REAL magic academy
this one woulda got the magic wand of correction across her magical little butt!
(for drinkin that eagle piss Corona!)
ACH!-and after all those years studying the higher precepts!
Gandalf is VERY disappointed in you, young lady!
Yer in Europe and you couldn't conjur some Guinness or St. Pauly Girl, or Heinekin?
Oh God! it's like the last line in Lord Of The Flies:
"I'd have thought BRITISH lassies would have made a better show of it"
