gibt es hier. Über 1000 Einsendungen??? Das lässt doch hoffen - ich hatte mit mindestens 10000 gerechnet...

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David Frost: I've had an idea for an interview: Richard Nixon.
John Birt: You're a talk show host. I spent yesterday watching you interview the Bee Gees.
David Frost: Weren't they terrific?

Richard Nixon: Why would I want to talk to David Frost?
Swifty Lazar: I've got half a million dollars.
Richard Nixon: Really?

David Frost: Why didn't you burn the tapes?
Richard Nixon: I didn't want to take any questions on Watergate!

Bob Zelnick: [Doing his Nixon impersonation] That Jack Kennedy, he screwed anything that moved. He had a go at Checkers once, and that poor bitch was never the same after that.

Richard Nixon: That's our tragedy, you and I Mr. Frost. No matter how high we get, they still look down at us.

David Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal?
Richard Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's *not* illegal!
David Frost: ...I'm sorry?

Richard Nixon: I let them down. I let down my friends, I let down my country, and worst of all I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now they think; 'Oh it's all too corrupt and the rest'. Yeah... I let the American people down. And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life. My political life is over.

James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes great, complex ideas, trenches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why Bob Zelnick was quite as euphoric as he was after the interviews, or why John Birt felt moved to strip naked and rush into the ocean to celebrate. But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up, because David had succeeded on that final day, in getting for a fleeting moment what no investigative journalist, no state prosecutor, no judiciary committee or political enemy had managed to get; Richard Nixon's face swollen and ravaged by loneliness, self-loathing and defeat. The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten, they would totally cease to exist.

Neu gelesen:
Gene Wolfe, "The Wizard" (Book Two of "The Wizard Knight")

Daß ich einigermaßen günstig (und relativ schnell) an die Fortsetzung von The Knight kam, verdanke ich David. Erstaunlicherweise lässt sich der Band auch ganz problemlos an, obwohl es fast ein halbes Jahr her ist, daß ich den ersten Band gelesen hab - und mich auch nicht mit der zwar gutgemeinten und sicherlich hilfreichen, aber viel zu langen Namensliste am Anfang aufhalten mochte. Es geht tatsächlich auch so...

und es ist schon etwas wärmer geworden ...


aber das Eis hält sich ... noch.

Babas Fotos

"Figaro here, Figaro there, I tell you! Figaro upstairs, Figaro downstairs and - oh my goodness me, this little Figaro can slip into my lady's chamber smart as you like at any time whatsoever that he takes the fancy for, don't you know, he's a cat of the world, cosmopolitan, sophisticated; he can tell when a furry friend is the Missus' best company. For what lady in all the world could say 'no' to the passionate yet toujours discreet advances of a fine marmelade cat?"

(Angela Carter, "Puss-in-Boots", aus "The Bloody Chamber", 1979)

Erste Sätze

das habe ich heute per Einwurfeinschreiben auf den Weg gebracht:

und da wird es wohl Zeit, die Katze aus dem Sack zu lassen:

Ich nehme hierbei teil, und auch wenn mein "magischer Bestseller" in der zu erwartenden Flut der Einsendungen mit Glanz und Gloria untergehen sollte, war es doch eine schöne und nützliche Erfahrung. Nichts ist umsonst.

Wieder gelesen:

Neil Gaiman, "Chivalry", aus: Smoke and Mirrors

Eine Bemerkung meines E-Mailfreundes David erinnerte mich an diese ironisch-versponnene Kurzgeschichte, die dann natürlich prompt gelesen werden wollte. Nebenbei ist sie eine schöne - und verdiente - Werbung für Oxfam-Shops...