Harry Pootter
Wheeee! Everyone needs a hit of Petter, Pitter, er,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Collected dish: Pope thinks
Harry's Evil; the scoop on
burning Harry; the ban on
reading or talking about Harry (and not a peep of protest from the losers at the
Canadian Association of Journalists); Michael Bronski claims
Harry Potter as gay; and finally, the contest on the dying Harry -- okay, rather on the rumoured death of the wizard
Albus Dumbledore. The Guardian has
posted the best entries in a contest to write up Dumbie's last moments in the style of one of the greats (Austen, Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Scooby Doo, Lemony Snicket). My own version, based on
Sappho's writing style, has been very
kindly posted by Guardian editors -- I reproduce it below.
The [text lost to the mists of time] Dumbl[text lost]
"Grey bearded ....
....
....
....
....
loins
... his wand
the goddess of ....
Speaks the pink glow of the Dawn
... breast
... expiring .... boy weeps
...
over the .....
the ....
....
....
....
soot, black grey .... owl
....."
It's so damn good you can't tell it from an original Sappho.