Meme!

[ratherastory]

Nicked from bellatemple and roque_clasique.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed in order of relevance to you.

Like bellatemple and roque_clasique, I include musicians.

1- Paul Verlaine

2- Charles Dickens

3- Jack London

4- Bob Dylan

5- Émile Nelligan

6- Victor Hugo

7- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8- The Beatles

9- Emily Dickinson

10- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11- Hergé

12- Guy de Maupassant

13- Edgar Allan Poe

14- Bram Stoker

15- Bernard Cornwell


Okay, there are, like, a bazillion others I could name. *sigh* 15 seems awfully limiting.

Comments

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Yay, we have a crossover of TWO! Emily and the Beatles :) Bob Dylan almost made it on there for me, though!

You've got so many classics, I love it -- knew you were classy ;)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

LOL

I was raised on the classics: my parents and school saw to that. My father used to read me Coleridge aloud, the huge book (leather-bound edition with Gustave Doré's etchings) spread out over our knees. It's one of my most cherished childhood memories, actually. :)

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so lovely. I've never read Coleridge, actually -- will have to remedy that.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I wrote my honours thesis on him and Wordsworth, actually. It was a horrifically pretentious thing on the Other and the use of liminal space in the Lyrical Ballads. /o\

Coleridge is a gateway drug to the Romantics. Fair warning. Before you know it you'll be enjoying Keats and Shelley. ;)

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Hee! I wrote my thesis on Octavia Butler and Samuel Delaney, and the reading of race onto black sci-fi novels -- equally pretentious! But funnnnnn.

I already do enjoy Keats and Shelley, LOL! Just somehow missed Coleridge. And Wordsworth, come to think of it -- aside from "I wandered lonely as a cloud," of course.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Look at you, all up in the Romantics! Next thing you know you'll be telling me you love William Blake.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

WHO DOESN'T LOVE WILLIAM BLAKE?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW!

[velvetine01.livejournal.com]

It was a horrifically pretentious thing on the Other and the use of liminal space in the Lyrical Ballads
Ahah, my prof would LOVE you.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! What's your prof's name? Anyone I would know?

[velvetine01.livejournal.com]

Prof Tom Mole. IDK if you'd know him.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Doesn't ring a bell, no. Alas.

[ianthe-echo.livejournal.com]

15 is so limiting, otherwise I would put some musicians on mine.

[velvetine01.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ Verlaine et Maupassant! ♥

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Bien sûr!

J'aurais pu inclure Molière et Racine et plein d'autres écrivains Français, mais je voulais que la liste soit plus ou moins équilibrée.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Hee, is that why you threw in the Beatles? BAM! outta nowhere.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

One of my earliest musical influences. My father (again) used the play Sgt. Pepper for me.

My father is responsible for a LOT of how I turned out, culturally speaking. ;)

[velvetine01.livejournal.com]

Je n'ai pas reconnu l'ecrivain quebecois (Anne Hebert reste la seule que j'ai etudiee au lycee). Il est grands temps que je me lance dans la litterature quebecoise je pense!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Émile Nelligan? C'est un des poètes les plus connus de la province, et un des seuls écrivains québecois que j'aime beaucoup. Malheureusement, il n'a écrit que pendant la fin de son adolescence, et par la suite a succombé à la schizophrenie. Une histoire vraiment triste. :(

[jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com]

I listed Dickens as well but Herge' ! *\o/* I wish it had occurred to me.
I DID find 15 rather limiting . So I cheated. *g*


Coleridge is a gateway drug to the Romantics LOL LOL!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hergé taught me that stories don't have to be complex in order to be riveting. He also taught me the value of well-rounded secondary characters. :)

Coleridge is totally a gateway drug to the Romantics. Of all of them, he's the most accessible, I find.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

FUCK YEAH HERGE :D

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

So self-respecting French child should ever grow up without reading Tintin. :)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

The first time I read Tintin, it was Indonesian translations. Those comics gave mini-me such joy.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Nice.

I have read Tintin in a couple of different languages. Amazing, the difference a translation makes.

How do Capitaine Haddock's swear words translate into Indonesian?

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

"Thundering typhoons" is more literal and so has stuck, thank god, being "sejuta topan badai", meaning "a thousand thunderstorms". I was horrified to realize I couldn't remember the rest, so I ran off to Wikipedia to find out.

DUDE IT HAS A WHOLE LIST COMPILED. A selection:

Babi Ompong! = gap-toothed pig
Babon bulukan! = mangy baboon
Badut budukan! = ummm, uncouth clown?
Bakso busuk! = rotten meatballs (the bakso is a kind of Indonesian meatball)
Belalang liar! = wild grasshopper
Cacing kering! = dry worm
Dasar bandit! = what a thief!
Dendam kesumat! vendetta
Ikan asin! = salted fish
Jangkrik! = cricket
Jin peot! = wrinkly djinn
Kanibal! = cannibal
Kambing guling! = goat on a spit (also a delicious dish!)
Kepiting goreng! = fried crab
Kodok kesasar! = lost frog
Kutu busuk! = rotten fleas
Racun tikus! = rat poison
Tikus bau! = smelly rat
Udang busuk! = rotten shrimp
Kepiting busuk! = rotten crab



:DDDDDDDDD meeeemoriiiiies

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those English translations don't even come close to what I remember from the original French. Huh.

It would be awesome if someone had compiled all the insults in all the languages for a compare/contrast...

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

They have probably changed! I'm sure the English translations have different insults too. On the Wikipedia page, the translator was quoted as saying how weird 'blistering barnacles' sounded in Indonesian, so he just decided to go with something else entirely. I would loooove to see Haddock's insults in all the languages XD. And omg are you seeing some of Haddock's insults in the picture? 'Polynesian' and 'Aborigine', yeesh. D:

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hergé was a terrible racist. His early stuff is appalling. So much so that a lot of it has been edited, and a couple of his bandes déssinées have never even been reprinted.

Alas for my childhood classics.

My father was always careful to point out all the places where Hergé was being a racist/sexist ass whenever we read the books together, just to make sure I didn't get the wrong ideas.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

That's really good of your dad! Awesome. Yeah man, alas my childhood classics too! I was mad big into Donald Duck comics when I was a little kid too, just into Donald Duck in general. Okay, I still am. Some of the Donald comics and cartoons are pretty damn racist, and I only realize now when I'm reconsuming.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I just figured out that "thundering typhoons" is probably a translation of "tonnerre de Brest!" which actually comes from (prepare for historical trivia) the firing of the cannons every day in the city of Brest to signal the opening and closing of the fortress. :)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Oh huh! Cool! Good to know curses for from all times for all occasions. :D

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

My dad was a huge influence on the way I turned out too... but musically -- as in my musical tastes -- all the credit goes to my brother. I might just have to snag this list!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

I meant snag the meme and post my own list, obviously...

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

You are totally welcome to do so. It is free for the snagging, obviously. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

:)

http://nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com/5314.html

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

Look at you, all classic literature and everything! GREAT choices!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was hard to stick just to fifteen. I'm sure the list could easily have been three times as long and I wouldn't have broken a sweat -and not all classics, either!