Michael Emrys Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 ...Great North Woods... You have just reminded me: I have occasionally pondered the advisability of starting a thread in the GF that would be a multi-authored serial centered on "Cass Timberlake, North Woods Doctor". I have thus far hesitated to do so, harboring doubts that it would generate the necessary interest among those few posters with enough literary ability to make the whole thing viable. Any takers? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Does it have to be clean!!!??? **** her tits 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 As long as it doesn't have to be TOO clean, I'm in.... Innuendo & flowery language can go a long way to hide what is essentially a depiction of **** her tits. I take it Mr Emrys that actual factual knowledge of (a) medicine or ( the North Woods would be necessary? I have in fact watched 'Due South', and consider myself an expert on the Mounties accordingly...is that close enough? Cheers, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 E.G: "Ooh, Doctor Timberlake" gasped the young widow, her flimsy raccoon-skin chemise falling open to reveal the glorious globes of her mammalian heritage. Cass felt himself drawn to her across the stamped-earth floor of the tiny cabin, his man-truncheon already swollen with unprofessional desire. [Or is that too racy for the younger set that may have come here to discuss model aircraft and how cool the Germans were?.....only the Moderators know for sure] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 As long as it doesn't have to be TOO clean, I'm in.... Cool! It just has to meet BFC's posting standards. I take it Mr Emrys that actual factual knowledge of (a) medicine or ( the North Woods would be necessary? Not strictly, although it might aid in establishing verisimilitude. This is not envisioned as a story about medicine but about people, one of whom happens to be a flying doctor. It might therefore be more useful to know something about aircraft, specifically floatplanes. I have in fact watched 'Due South', and consider myself an expert on the Mounties accordingly...is that close enough? Er, hadn't planned on including Mounties or anyone explicitly Canadian, but there's nothing wrong with the idea. If you can do something interesting with it, by all means proceed. Really, the only requisite for this venture is the ability to write amusingly and entertainingly. It is, after all, a parody. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Cass felt himself... One thing you should know from the outset: Cass is female. [Or is that too racy for the younger set that may have come here to discuss model aircraft and how cool the Germans were?.....only the Moderators know for sure] Well, it seems just slightly too heavy-handed for what I had in mind. At least at the outset. Let's aim a little more highbrow. It's a parody, but not a parody of highschool greaser lit (although I must say I like the racoon skin chemise bit). Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Jeez! The Peng cess pit is overflowing onto other threads... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 I think it should go to a the General Forum ... Revised gender edition "Ooh, Doctor Timberlake" gasped the young widow, her flimsy raccoon-skin chemise falling open to reveal the glorious globes of her mammalian heritage. Cass felt herself drawn to her across the stamped-earth floor of the tiny cabin, her falseman-truncheon already swollen with unprofessional desire. Cranky you are a natural. [i will take a guess you will take that as a compliment] I had no idea that you read that sort of novel.! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Georgette Heyer, a Georgian age specialist, wrote some wonderful romances where the hero would offer to mount her, as on a horse of course. As for the Duke's wonderful balls .... I cannot remember what novel or which author it was but the crippled heroine when asked to dance " cast aside her blanket to reveal her crutch". So bold. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 I think it should go to a the General Forum ... Absolutely. That's always been my plan. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 "One thing you should know from the outset: Cass is female" Bro, good thing you mentioned that, eh? I was just about to get to work on a novel about Dr Timberlake's younger days, called "The Boy Hunter". If you have further details/backround I need to know, send me an email... Oh and one other thing: Normally when I write on contract - either as 'Stephen King', 'Steven J. Gould', 'Stephen Hawkins' or 'Madonna Stevens Ciccone' - I receive between $3 and $7 a word, as well as a substantial per diem. In this case I'm willing to waive my fee, and work pro boner as it were, on the condition that you supply me with some kind of North Woods Porn unobtainable in the normal market - I'm thinking of a second-tier adult actress (like Michelle Barrett, perhaps) freely copulating with a grizzly bear or giant sea-otter... cheers, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 "Cranky you are a natural. [i will take a guess you will take that as a compliment] I had no idea that you read that sort of novel.!" Read? Hah! Check out Picture Magazine, August 2009: section 'My Best Threesome' - classic Cranky story called 'Hot Nazi Twins'. "Ve must both get on our knees together, Darling", Ursula cooed. "Ve must move vis military precision, Liebchen", Jutte added. "You see, ve are conjoined at der vaist...." "Ja ja, conjoined...after all, ve do not look Siamese, do ve Darling?" laughed Ursula, shaking her long blonde hair down over her ample Aryan boobies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-E Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Don't confuse me with an Aussie. It's insulting to both of us. Actually, the WA in my address stands for Washington State, in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. Translation: Mr Emrys has webbed feet and fingers and is covered by moss while being proud of his ferry. *grin* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 "Georgette Heyer, a Georgian age specialist" Absolutely, DT - Heyer was one of the great bodice-ripping authors of all time. In a slightly different vein (Victorian London) I highly recommend 'Walter: A Secret Life', being the memoirs of a gent about town - very honest and sometimes quite poignant. And a fair bit of detailed rooting as well... cheers, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Translation: Mr Emrys has webbed feet and fingers and is covered by moss while being proud of his ferry. *grin* Oh. You've been here? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 In a slightly different vein (Victorian London) I highly recommend 'Walter: A Secret Life', being the memoirs of a gent about town - very honest and sometimes quite poignant. Then you'd probably like The Girl With the Swansdown Seat also. I started reading this a couple of decades back but got interrupted before I could finish it and then lost my copy. By coincidence, I just ordered another copy the other day. Not a bodice ripper per se, but a serious (or at least semi-serious) look into late Victorian sexual mores. Some of the chapters of the first volume of Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill are a bit titillating as well. Turns out that the upper class did not at all feel constrained by "Victorian" morality. Neither did the lowest classes. It was pretty much a middle class phenomenon. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Thanks, Michael- I'm always on the lookout for interesting new books. I'll follow up both the 'Swansdowne Seat' and Manchester's Churchill bio. On the subject of Victorian sexual mores, I'm sure you've already read 'The Worm In The Bud' by Ronald Pearsall ? And probably also 'The Dark Angel' by Frank Harrison? May I recommend the works of Edward Sellon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sellon And finally, I've got to mention Margarete Von Falkensee, who pursues the pornographic novel as brilliant political satire in 'Blue Angel Nights', which satirizes German society of the late 1920's quite brilliantly. Her other books are a little less sharp, but still very readable. Cheers, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 ...Manchester's Churchill bio. Turned out to be surprisingly good. He is clearly a Churchill partisan, but is not at all shy about calling a spade a spade when he comes across one of Churchill's less admirable traits—which happens fairly often. I've almost finished the second volume, which covers the years between 1932 and 1940 and look forward to the third, which is still in preparation by another author as Manchester died a while ago. On the subject of Victorian sexual mores, I'm sure you've already read 'The Worm In The Bud' by Ronald Pearsall ? And probably also 'The Dark Angel' by Frank Harrison? No in both cases, but I'll be on the lookout for them. May I recommend the works of Edward Sellon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sellon And finally, I've got to mention Margarete Von Falkensee, who pursues the pornographic novel as brilliant political satire in 'Blue Angel Nights', which satirizes German society of the late 1920's quite brilliantly. Her other books are a little less sharp, but still very readable. I'll be alert for those too. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Interesting to see books in common. I recently picked up a " ..... Swansdown Seat" as it ties in with my historical interests. I have just logged my 1200 the book at librarything though indexing is very rough, i did not get the collections right but - only a further 100 cookery books now I think. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dieseltaylor This was interesting http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2006.00397.x/full 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 "Turned out to be surprisingly good. He is clearly a Churchill partisan, but is not at all shy about calling a spade a spade when he comes across one of Churchill's less admirable traits—which happens fairly often." David Irving's "Churchill's War" was a great read for that; his picture of the compulsively talkative, often inebriated Churchill summoning people to all-night conferences in the government bunker while dressed in a kind of infant's jump-suit has stayed with me. Ditto the depiction of Winnie receiving the Ultra intel each day of the Blitz - knowing when & where the Luftwaffe were going to bomb, scooting out of town for the night, to return next day to be seen touring the fresh rubble and commiserating with Londoners whilst making brave speeches. Anyway, we could talk about books all day, no? As that old pinball machine (was it '8-Ball' ?) used to say: "Stop Talkin' , And Start Chalkin' " 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 And DT: You find that both you and Mr Emrys are currently interested in the same book. You offer a link (and fascinating it was) to a book about Gladstone and his paramour. I just happen to have just started reading Edelman's 'Disraeli in Love'. Then I have a look at the first page of your LibraryThing: Right there is Wendy Northcutt's 'The Darwin Awards', which I've just brought home, together with its sequel, after I rescued them from somebody's rubbish bin... Poor old Jung puzzled over this kind of non-coincidence for years. I just accept that things work that way A post-Jungian stance, if you like Probably has something to do with that Quantum stuff, I daresay.... Cheers, MK 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Oh, and two more things: R.Pearsall also a great book called 'Night's Black Angels: The Forms and Faces of Victorian Cruelty'. The expected spanking and birching stuff is all there, to be sure, but there are also several great chapters on what were known as the 'Cruel Trades' - assorted occupations that would mess you up quickly or slowly but always definitively... Not quite as funny as Baldrick's TV series....actually pretty ****ing grim. AND: Charles Booth's landmark Victorian social history project "Life and Labour of the People in London" is available online here in various formats: http://www.archive.org/details/lifelabourofpeop07bootiala Make sure you find out what a 'Bird-Duffer' does Cheers, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 David Irving's "Churchill's War" was a great read for that; his picture of the compulsively talkative, often inebriated Churchill summoning people to all-night conferences in the government bunker while dressed in a kind of infant's jump-suit has stayed with me. Ditto the depiction of Winnie receiving the Ultra intel each day of the Blitz - knowing when & where the Luftwaffe were going to bomb, scooting out of town for the night, to return next day to be seen touring the fresh rubble and commiserating with Londoners whilst making brave speeches. Irving is not to be trusted. He makes things up. That he may believe his own inventions does not exonerate him. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 "Irving is not to be trusted. He makes things up. That he may believe his own inventions does not exonerate him." Perhaps. I can recall when Irving was considered to be quite a brilliant historian by such figures of the Establishment as Trevor-Roper. At one time he had a reputation for unparalleled thoroughness in his research. His book 'The War Between The Generals' features many excerpts from the diary of Everett Hughes, whose terrible handwriting had defeated historians up to then. Irving found someone who could read it and transcribe, revealing some very interesting observations from Hughes, who was in the inner circles of Patton's entourage. Now, I am well aware of the Deborah Lipstadt trial and the verdict. I am also aware that Mr Irving has several times been refused a visa for Australia. I am further aware that 'Holocaust Denial' is in fact a crime in many countries, and really for that reason is a matter best not discussed As far as 'making things up' , did you see that Stephen Ambrose (of 'Band of Brothers' fame) lied about the degree of involvement of Eisenhower in Ambrose's books on the subject? Shocking Cass Timberlake, on the other hand, I know to be an honest woman, though perhaps she is engaging in some self-deception when it comes to her feelings for The Handsome Stranger... Cheers, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxh123 Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Let me know if interested, PM or email me back. I am sure that Moon can help you out somehow regarding a manual for Combat Mission. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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