The Library (12/02/05)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet opens up the library and starts working.

ETA: The library is now CLOSED (as of 5:30 p.m FST). If you are not Janet, Methos, Parker, Zero, Angela, or Ten, you should not be posting in the library. Thank you!

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[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[The Doctor's found Memoirs of a Geisha, finished it, and brought it back. He's now looking for all of the Narnia books, in chronological order because Rhi is a masochist and is waiting for Zero and Parker to rip his head off.]

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

((SPing for now, FYI.))

[janet_fraiser]

Janet wonders if he's looking for the chronological order the books are written in, or the chronological order they take place in. Or she would if she could read minds. Because for some reason about twelve years ago, publishers changed them from the chronological order they were written in to the order they take place in. And Janet's mun has had hissyfits about it ever since.

[swerval_zero]

Oh, you too?

[janet_fraiser]

OMG, yes! It totally destroys the dramatic tension, when you have to wait until book six to find out that Professor Diggory was actually at the creation of Narnia! And--argh. *glares at publishers*

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Methos-mun pats Janet-mun and goes WTF? Because you can't *PUT* Horse and His Boy in order unless you split off the last page and a half of L, W&W, and putting The Magician's Nephew first is ENTIRLY missing the point.

[janet_fraiser]

You are such a trill slut. (That was an OOC joke between us. Don't ask.)

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

We did that when I worked at the library, had the new ones that were in 'correct' order.
[If Ten knew what Janet was thinking, he would tell her that it doesn't matter as long as they get read. By him. Soon.
And that he met Lewis once, and that he was kind of a nutjob. And gay. Not that being gay is bad.]

[janet_fraiser]

For some odd reason, Janet's suddenly really glad she can't read minds.

((OOC: *snicker*))

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[So is Ten. Even though he can, sometimes. Maybe. It's complicated.]

((See the New Yorker from a couple weeks ago.))

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wespryce/]

((When I worked at the library, we shelved them in title order anyway because we were nerdy that way. jF L49h would have been "The Horse and His Boy".))

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wespryce/]

[[I would have said homosocial rather than homosexual; judging by most of the books up until Joy Gresham, he didn't perceive women as people, just as these weird illogical creatures.]]

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wespryce/]

I've been having hissyfits ever since they reduced the original illustrations to pinpoint size.

[janet_fraiser]

Then you apparently win at Narnia fannishness.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wespryce/]

There's a contest?

I always wanted to be Aravis.

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Suggests that everyone read the essay, "Christian Eye for the Pagan Guy" in this collection (http://www.smartpopbooks.com/download/index.html) because it is an excellent essay about religion in the Narnia books.

[janet_fraiser]

*totally has a Narnia fangirl moment and is OMG so counting the days 'til LWW opens*

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[downloads the collection and has that kind of orgasmic moment that only a pop culture major and a reading freak can have]

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Wow, totally inadvertent orgasm! Am I good or what?

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

TEN: Or what.

[swerval_zero]

Methos tends to have that effect on people. CS Lewis, not so much...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wespryce/]

In fact, thinking about CS Lewis at a critical moment might be a good way to delay orgasm.

[janet_fraiser]

You also win today's award for oversharing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wespryce/]

collects awards and pins them to her hat