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[desperance]

...the next, the very next time someone leans over me on a train and asks what I'm writing, I shall say "Gay bondage porn, actually," just to see what happens.

Hell, it might even be true.

This time, as it happens, I said, "The rape of Nanking, actually," which is about as true as it comes. If I will practise private activities in a public space - and apparently I will - then of course people are entitled to be curious; but the question is still an impertinence, and they are equally entitled to endure whatever degree of honesty I choose to bless them with.

When the enquirer is middle-aged, though, and just looks blank in a what's-that kind of way, there's really nothing one can do but wave a vague hand and say "Oh, never mind."

*is depressed at General Ignorance*

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

That's even worse than "What are you reading?" I'm told that this is supposed to be a conversational gambit. My feeling on that is simple: If I wanted to talk, I wouldn't be pursuing an essentially solitary activity such as reading (or writing) in a public space.

[julesjones]

...the next, the very next time someone leans over me on a train and asks what I'm writing, I shall say "Gay bondage porn, actually," just to see what happens.

I don't do enough writing on trains to be subjected to that very often -- but that's also one of the reasons why I don't do very much writing on trains... And yes, there are times when I'd be very, very tempted to tell them. Such as when I'm writing gay bondage porn.

Which reminds me, I never did finish the last bit of gay bondage porn I started writing on a train. Must find that notebook.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

And apart from that, Mr Brenchley, how did you enjoy Peterborough?

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

A number of years ago when I was in collage, I was on a late bus home, reading a book to pass the time. A drunk sat beside me and asked what I was reading. So I showed him - it was a list of hi-tech weapons for a sci-fi RPG including plasma guns etc. For some reason he moved away.

when I was in collage

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Collage (From the French: coller, to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. — Wikipedia

What an image that diverted me into ...

Re: when I was in collage

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

chuckles - oops

[(Anonymous)]

Rape of Nanking, is it? So that would be Asian gay bondage porn. Too much of a niche market, really. You might want to try your hand at more popular genres, every once in a while. Romance, for instance. Now, The elopement of Nanking, that might be a good saleable Harlequin title.

Just saying.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Drat. I wasn't connected so my piquant wit was anonymously posted. I hate when that happens.

[julesjones]

But there'd be a large market within the romance genre for The Rape of Nan King. Bodice-rippers are back.

[predatrix.livejournal.com]

Damn. Beat me to it. My immediate response would have been, "He was probably thinking 'Who's she?'"

[wishus.livejournal.com]

Ah-as in a sequel to Tipping the Velvet?

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

*is depressed at General Ignorance*

I'd be happy to introduce General Ignorance to my friend, Corporal Punishment.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

I just hope Major Fatality won't be in attendance.

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

I wish you *were* writing gay bondage porn. I bet it would be Really Good.