Now was that the public library for negroes or the private church school library for real people. I'm assuming the public one, but I have not been to Alabama since 2013
R.A. Lafferty, an inventive fantasy writer and extremely orthodox Catholic, out of word-play or timidity, in "The Devil is Dead" referred to one man as another's 'catamount'. Aieee, claws!
I started to giggle at "the subjection of thy hips and buttocks to its lurid sway," but really, the whole thing's a winner. Puzzlewit seems like he could have actually existed at some point!
I had a good friend who was very into reading the Gor books. We are no longer good friends. Mostly because he moved to Texas and got a DUI while older than 40, so they couldn't even GW Bush him into youthful hijinks
Xenos was the High Priest of Coruba(sp?), of whom the hero, Cabot, memorably mumbled, "Those priest kings are very dangerous. They have...unknown powers". (Xenos' powers, for the record, appeared to be "drinking between takes" and "modeling a badly bobbypinned yarmulke that was in constant danger of flying off whenever Jack bit into a particularly toothsome snatch of dialogue".)
Damn, now all I can hear in my head is Eric Andre's Black Scientologist public provocation: 'What do we want?'/'Xenu!'/'When do we want him?'/'Twenty trillion years!'
Too close to real, Roy, too close! “Ye catamite masters” lololol.
(Bogus, because Fritters, Alabama closed its library and turned it into a bait and tackle shop. *Everyone* knows that.)
Now was that the public library for negroes or the private church school library for real people. I'm assuming the public one, but I have not been to Alabama since 2013
It's like Penthouse Forum for God-bothers.
"Dear L'Osservatore Romano, you won't believe what happened to my cilice yesterday. . ."
Now you've gone and reminded me of the best first line of a novel ever written. I speak, of course, of Anthony Burgess's "Earthly Powers":
"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
Rod would love it. It's all about religion.
R.A. Lafferty, an inventive fantasy writer and extremely orthodox Catholic, out of word-play or timidity, in "The Devil is Dead" referred to one man as another's 'catamount'. Aieee, claws!
I started to giggle at "the subjection of thy hips and buttocks to its lurid sway," but really, the whole thing's a winner. Puzzlewit seems like he could have actually existed at some point!
I'm sure he does! So many of these Moldbug types seem to be Gor cosplayers looking to pick up mead-money.
I had a good friend who was very into reading the Gor books. We are no longer good friends. Mostly because he moved to Texas and got a DUI while older than 40, so they couldn't even GW Bush him into youthful hijinks
There were actually a couple of Gor adaptations in the late Eighties—low-budget Italian fare. Jack Palance turned up as “Xenos” (whoever that is).
Xenos was the High Priest of Coruba(sp?), of whom the hero, Cabot, memorably mumbled, "Those priest kings are very dangerous. They have...unknown powers". (Xenos' powers, for the record, appeared to be "drinking between takes" and "modeling a badly bobbypinned yarmulke that was in constant danger of flying off whenever Jack bit into a particularly toothsome snatch of dialogue".)
Damn, now all I can hear in my head is Eric Andre's Black Scientologist public provocation: 'What do we want?'/'Xenu!'/'When do we want him?'/'Twenty trillion years!'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet2Q0M32GQ
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 had their way with the second one, "Outlaw of Gor", often listed in episode guides as just 'Outlaw'.
The pull-quote from “Dark Inquisition” philosopher Periwig Puzzlewit is prime. Great piece, Roy.
Thanks!