Infinite Variety

[rj_anderson]

Dear Stephen Fry:

You are a very funny and talented man, and I am not at all surprised that you are also an enormous geek. I am amazed, however, by the sheer insane length of your first blog post, and the fact that it is all about electronic gadgetry. I don't know why I expected you to still write everything down on parchment with a fountain pen and use only public telephones, but for some reason I did.

Really, the sheer complexity of people never fails to surprise me.

Which has inspired me to create a meme of sorts:

1. Tell me one thing about yourself that you think I might be really surprised to hear, and/or
2. Tell me one thing about myself that really surprised you when you found out.

And now I must go and unravel part of Chapter Four which isn't working, so that I can feel happy about carrying on with Chapter Five.

Comments

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I'm not really shy, at least not in general, so that probably wasn't it. Now I'm really curious to know what I said at Verla's that was so surprising!

And I am indeed truly surprised by your #1! Though I've found that the lines between YA and adult fiction sometimes get blurred, and books which were originally marketed as adult get re-released as MG or YA (like Patricia Wrede's Sorcery and Cecilia, for instance, or some of Robin McKinley's stuff). So we may have read some of the same books that I think of as adult fantasy. Maybe.

[robinellen.livejournal.com]

I've read Robin McKinley, but only her 'blue sword'...I'll have to look for that surprising thing :)