Letter to China Miéville

[Wreybies]

Dear China,

You rogue. Roughie toughie. Anarchistic bad boy. ([size=50]Yes, yes. I know he’s a Trotsky[/size]) You made me learn a new language that allows for the beauty of red women with scarab beetle heads, clockwork house servants and magic that happens in the lab. You gave me demonic moths to steal my dreams away and Spiders involved in politics that might leave me looking like Van Gogh off his meds.

I looked for you online and did not expect to find such an attractive scalawag.

One would think the universe would balance those kinds of things out just a bit more and package such a sharp wit within a more humble wrapper.

It took me a bit to get into Perdido Street Station, the first of your Bas-Lag novels. Your turn of phrase was unusual to my inner ear and led me astray. Your descriptions asked me to plant new frames of reference and so it took me some time to get my bearings. But once I did, the sultry streets of New Crobuzon became a haven for me. I flaunted convention and made friends with khepri and cactus alike. I took tintypes of vodyanoi water sculptures and thought myself quite the esthete.

Can a love affair be literary if not literal? I think perhaps so.

Wrey

[vic-k]

Nahh. Yve got that wrong, Wrey. Thats a picture of Vic-k, after his last B12 injection.
Take care
Fluff.

[KB]

Blimey.

[jebni]

Wrey, I’m pretty sure China’s a Trotskyist. I think anarchists would be most offended by the suggestion that he’s “anarchistic”, what with his lot killing their lot during the Kronstadt rebellion, etc. etc.

[vic-k]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Miéville <----not working!

google.co.uk/search?client=s … 0gTxkdTnDA
Open this link[size=150]^[1] then open the above link. It`s first on page.

Culled from wikipedia:Miéville is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization, and stood unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 2001 General Election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, i. e. 1.2%,[12] in Regent’s Park and Kensington North, a Labour constituency.[13] He became a Marxist at university, after becoming unsatisfied with the ability of postmodern and feminist theories to explain history and political events.

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[Wreybies]

All, right. All, right.

raises both hands in concession

It just sounded pretty.

Admit it. Anarchistic bad boy… Trotskyistic bad boy…

Which rolls better?

I am not a political creature. I won’t pretend to know what Trotskyism even is. Politics only serves to induce jaw cracking yawns from me, if only because where I live (Puerto Rico) politics is one of the favorite sports and the playing of said has in the past lead me to claiming memberships in species other than homo sapiens.

Hmmm.

And here I thought my thinly veiled man-crush on China would be the topic of choice.

Go figure. :mrgreen:

[vic-k]

@Wreybies

thinly veiled

WOT!!
Then again, on the other hand, why not TTFRBOTW?

[Wreybies]

@vic-k

@Wreybies

thinly veiled

WOT!!
Then again, on the other hand, why not TTFRBOTW?

You gonna’ have to 'splain me, Lucy! :mrgreen:

Wrey

[jebni]

MAN CRUSH TRUMPS ALL!

[vic-k]

@Wreybies

'splain me,

What my human means is: Throw The[size=50](rude word)[/size]Rule Book Out The Window!
Take care
Fluff

[Wreybies]

@vic-k

@Wreybies

'splain me,

What my human means is: Throw The[size=50](rude word)[/size]Rule Book Out The Window!

ROFL :mrgreen:

Please don’t accuse me of plagiarizing should you ever see that acronym elsewhere.

Anyway… Now that we all know that Wrey thinks of China as hubby material, has anyone read him other than I?

[KB]

Not yet. I recently bought one of his books, can’t remember which now, and it’s sitting on my desk accusingly. I wanted to buy Perdito Street Station, but at 900 pages you’ve got to be kidding me. Anything above 400 pages is reserved for classics - I’m a pitifully slow reader!

[jebni]

Perdido Street Station and The Scar glare balefully from the bookshelf. Gah.