In which I succumb to childish pleasure...

[steepholm]

... at seeing my name come before Philip Pullman's.

It was very strange hearing John Waite's voice coming at me down a phone line rather than out of a radio. I almost forgot to reply to what he was asking. Something about some writer geezer...

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

I'm quite taken with the programme's title ...

Coincidentally, I'm delivering a desperate rehash new version of my Worldcon paper at UKC's MA student conference this coming week. Which is either going to burn my boats in the department, or else ... I shall blame my tutor for making me do it (not the fact I'd got nothing else I felt like doing). The coincidence of the 50 years had, at that point, escaped me. Now it seems only right and proper.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Yes, you could put that title on your cats' collars! It's right up there with "I am His Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"

Hope the paper goes well! Do a report, please...

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Shall report back, though you may see the reports of tutor bludgeoned to death after poor advice ... very few people on campus as yet know what else I do

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ahem - you would of course have to omit the definite article (I misremembered the title).

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Is that an old paper, or are you actually going to Worldcon this year?

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Old paper ... I would like to go to Worldcon but can't afford it.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, revamped paper in the light of, ahem, two modules of Poco studies. Also, an effort to remind people that there are many, many authors.