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RemyH 09:09 pm UTC 11/28/13 |
| Hi all Not quite sure am I late for the party, but I couldn't find anything using the search engine on this site, so decided to share. I'm a massive Terry Pratchett fan, and I just got my hands on "The Long Earth", a collaborative science fiction work by Sir Terry and Stephen Baxter. I didn't have to read but an hour to find, to my great amusement and joy, a Steinman reference. Alas, I'm reading it in Finnish (our libraries don't stock up many English prints), and I could find only one paragraph in English online, but I'll do my best with the rest of the translation. I also undestand she'll have a somewhat big role in the book, but this is where I'm now. I, by the way, recommend The Long Earth. Very hooking indeed! --- Sister Agnes was definitely religious, in a weird kind of way. At the Home, sister Agnes had two pictures on the walls of her cramped room: one of them was of the Sacred Heart, the other was of Meat Loaf. And she played old Jim Steinman records far too loudly for the other Sisters. Joshua knew very little about motorbikes, but sister Agnes' Harley looked so old that St. Paul himself probably took a ride in its sidecar. Occasionally extremely hairy motorists from other states made pilgrimages to her garage in The Home on Allied Drive. Sister Agnes offered them coffee and made sure they kept their fingers off the paint job. All children liked sister Agnes and she liked them, especially Joshua, and very especially after he made a dream painting with the motto 'Bat Into Heaven" on the gas tank, with marvellous cursive lettering Joshua had found in an old book in the library. Sister Agnes stated that Joshua might be stuck on a work of vocation, much like her own. The sister knew it was hard to make people understand what they didn't want to understand, like for example when she claimed "For Crying Out Loud" was one of the holiest songs ever recorded. She told Joshua to follow his heart and come home whenever he felt like it, because The Home was his home. She also said he could trust costable Jansson, who was a good cop and a proper Steinman-fan (she used the word "Steinman-fan" like some other nun might have used the word "catholic"). --- Rather priceless, I'd say :D | |
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