Dead Authors
Oct. 18th, 2004 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaBookslut points out a Dead Authors Party in Chicago. If you had to go as your favorite dead author, who would it be?
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scottjames asked me this, I told him Judith Merril, not because she's my absolute favorite of all dead authors, but because I feel a certain affinity for her and also because I would do a better job as her than as most of the other dead SF or fantasy writers. Almost no one ever mistakes me for Asimov or Tolkien or anybody at all like that.
I like plenty of dead non-speculative writers, but somehow they all feel wrong in my head. Dorothy Sayers comes the closest, but still no.
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scottjames asked me this, I told him Judith Merril, not because she's my absolute favorite of all dead authors, but because I feel a certain affinity for her and also because I would do a better job as her than as most of the other dead SF or fantasy writers. Almost no one ever mistakes me for Asimov or Tolkien or anybody at all like that.I like plenty of dead non-speculative writers, but somehow they all feel wrong in my head. Dorothy Sayers comes the closest, but still no.
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Date: 2004-10-18 09:44 am (UTC)Oh, wait, he's not dead.
Well, hm. I'd say Sylvia Plath, but she's not a favorite, and anyway, I don't think I could top the time my co-worker Jim showed up in a long wig, nightgown and oven-shaped cardboard box around his head. And I fear any makeup attempting to make me resemble Elizabeth Bishop would just make me look more like Judi Dench on a really bad day.
On the other hand, Sir Walter Ralegh... Hmmm. (Probably everyone would mistake me for Shakespeare, but still . . .hmmm.)