| Holmes. Watson. H/C. G&S. Random Latin usage. Bad Catechism jokes.
Worse ObRefs from every quarter. Golden hemorrhoids. Canon. Fanon. And
the Illuminati. —No, not really the Illuminati. (Of course, we would say
that, wouldn't we?) What does all this mess have to do with itself?
Suffering, pure and simple. I suffered through Gibson's Passion,
and now you have to suffer through my reportage of it to repay me. (Or
something like that. The metaphysical mechanics are a little sketchy still,
I couldn't quite figure that part out. I'm waiting for the EE.) Read "Where's
The Greek?" aka my beefs With Gibson & Anne Catherine Emmerich, for
a guided tour of whichever Circle of Hell is reserved for perpetrators
of Sacred Badfic, conducted not by Virgil but as it might be by Bertie
Wooster if Bertie Wooster was a Catholic seminarian and female, in which
case he wouldn't be able to be a Catholic seminarian — hang on a moment,
he wouldn't be he either, he would be she, and what kind of parents would
name their daughter Bertram anyway — but she could be an Anglican divinity
student and perhaps they named her Roberta and it was her friends at university
that christened her "Bertie," hah, did you think of that—? Oy vey.
—Will the author be able to get through it without quoting Stoker quoting
Holy Writ? How much do you want to bet on it, and what moneychangers do
you prefer? I badly need a computer not
built entirely out of secondhand parts. (....plus if they called her
Bertie and she's a divinity student leading a traveler through the Fandom
Inferno, well, that fits, because it could be considered a play on "Beatrice"
right? only that doesn't work because it was just a metaphor in the first
place for something too full of footnotes to be called a review and
too messy to be called anything else so stop retconning all right?) All
the usual warnings, and then some. It's going to be bloody — well, what
did you expect? This is Old-Time Religion; sharpened knives and targeted
lightning strikes are in order.
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27.April.2004
1 Retcon: slang term
in the SF continuity, abbreviation for "[to apply] retroactive continuity,"
means going back and adding in stuff to fix oversights or fill in gaps
due to poor planning as one creates or writes a narrative work. Also applicable
to jiggering prophecies, accounting books, alibi documentation and such,
to make it look like everything was done in proper order; and to coming
up with explanations that provide such retroactive continuity to someone
else's work. |