I love Halloween...

[amanuensis1]

You know what would be the coolest Halloween costume? You go as Janet from the "Tam Lin" ballad--since the key action takes place on Halloween--and you dress in a bodice-y gown but you dress pregnant and go carrying a stuffed dummy that's this sewn-together combo of lion/dragon/python/man, and make a point of not putting the dummy down all evening.

Damn, I'll never get that together by Monday.

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[vass]

and make a point of not putting the dummy down all evening.

...even when someone sets it on fire.

He turns into a burning brand at one point, I thought.

*seconds the recommendation of pameladean's Tam Lin. Published by Tor. Set in a liberal arts college. It's stuffed with quotation and allusion - if you're the Dorothy L. Sayers type, you'll probably like this too. It's one of my two favourite books ever.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love, LOVE that Dean book. Now, you know, I do have to ask--what's the other favorite book?

[vass]

Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night. I dig quotations.

You can probably guess what happened to me when I read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond books for the first time. *g*