November 26th, 2010 / 11:41 am
 Power Quote

from The Bloody Chamber

Angela Carter, badass

Concluding line of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”:

“See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny’s bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.”

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7 Comments

  1. November 26th, 2010 / 11:28 pm Bivers—

      I like these mini-posts. Keep postin’

  2. November 27th, 2010 / 3:15 am Tim Horvath—

      Tom Robbins writing that Angela Carter was his favorite dangerous drug was the one thing he wrote that had a lasting, lasting impact in my life. A blurb that made a difference.

  3. November 27th, 2010 / 3:32 am reynard seifert—

      i had no idea the log lady was a writer of awesomely abominable alliteration

  4. November 27th, 2010 / 10:17 am mimi—

      once i was the log lady for halloween

  5. November 27th, 2010 / 10:18 am mimi—

      a blurb i will always remember reading is “tom robbins writes the way dolly parton looks”

  6. November 27th, 2010 / 4:20 pm I. Fontana—

      “The Sadeian Woman,” published back in 1979, still holds up. Excellent ruminations on Juliette vs Justine.

  7. November 29th, 2010 / 7:18 pm thom bunn—

      Apparently, since she died, her work has generated the single most theses by lit students in the UK.