Neal Stephenson interview on Slashdot

[jrtom]

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/10/20/1518217.shtml

Both informative and damned funny in spots. For those wishing to jump straight to the funny bits, check out the answer to question (4):

In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?

Comments

Re: four dinarii from the cheap seats:

[deromilly.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in the new Greek translations. I definitely didn't know they exist.

For what it's worth, every one of my English Lit teachers who talked about the history of the novel cited Genji as the first example of a truly "modern" novel. I'm having a fog as to names at the UO, although my two High School English teachers, Ken Myers and Melba McConnaughey, cited it... Greek and Latin though? No, not really. They mentioned that it was possible, as so much was lost though, which is, apparently, something most profs neglected.

Oh, by the way... HI JOSH!! (If you remember me. I'll always remember you sailing through larps singing "Valderieeeee, valderaaah..." and no one getting it. )

~Romilly

Re: four dinarii from the cheap seats:

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Of course I remember you, Romilly. Not in exhaustive detail, but I'm pretty sure I could still pick you out of a crowd. :) How are things?

"Vaulderie": So glad you remember. I enjoyed that (not just the pun, or the singing, but the mystified looks--but things like that are always best if there's at least one person you don't have to explain them to). ;)

Re: four dinarii from the cheap seats:

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

* wrings hands gleefully*

There's this thing we can do!

Yes, I know it was another player (that friend of Adrian's), but I couldn't resist.

Re: four dinarii from the cheap seats:

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

You know, my major regret from that campaign (aside from the fact that Alex and I didn't quite manage to kill Grashal, and Rafael never returned so we could properly thank him for his hand in our demises) is that I didn't really do as much with my character as I could have. He had the potential for some serious head-messing. Ah well.