I KNEW I would remember!
Aug. 25th, 2003 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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cadhla this Sunday. While we were having lunch @ a Jersey City McDonald's (had forgotten, McD's puts onion bits on burgers - v. annoying), thought crossed my mind: YEARS before my case of Sinophilia erupted, I had somehow inadvertently primed it with something w/o realising. Something to do w/Hong Kong. Had realised this on Friday or Saturday but could not put finger on what. Mentioned this to cadhla & said that brain would retrieve subject within 4 days.
Brain has just done so. Was v. v. V. big fan of William Marshall's Yellowthread Street mysteries in high school - mostly 'cos I began w/one called Sci Fi, as at the time was v. big Trekkie in addition to fan of other sf. Book had nothing science fiction about it - title had to do w/giant SF convention taking place in Hong Kong.
I think I read those books three or four times each, for sheer love of a newly discovered genre - the police procedural mystery (was also big Sherlock Holmes fan at the time; still am). Had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN about them until, on Friday, I wandered down the mystery shelves @ the library and squinted into the MAR section. There they were. Ah, shiny...
But yes, on top of all the stuff about getting lucky money in red envelope at my birth & mom mistaking me for Asiatic nurse's baby while still on childbirth painkillers, methinks I have found exactly what I primed the ol' Sinophilic, HK-lovin' pump with.
Think I'm gonna see if the used bookstores have any of these babies for sale. I miss Christopher O'Yee, and Harry Feiffer, Auden, Spencer, and all the rest of the Precinct.
cadhla this Sunday. While we were having lunch @ a Jersey City McDonald's (had forgotten, McD's puts onion bits on burgers - v. annoying), thought crossed my mind: YEARS before my case of Sinophilia erupted, I had somehow inadvertently primed it with something w/o realising. Something to do w/Hong Kong. Had realised this on Friday or Saturday but could not put finger on what. Mentioned this to cadhla & said that brain would retrieve subject within 4 days.Brain has just done so. Was v. v. V. big fan of William Marshall's Yellowthread Street mysteries in high school - mostly 'cos I began w/one called Sci Fi, as at the time was v. big Trekkie in addition to fan of other sf. Book had nothing science fiction about it - title had to do w/giant SF convention taking place in Hong Kong.
I think I read those books three or four times each, for sheer love of a newly discovered genre - the police procedural mystery (was also big Sherlock Holmes fan at the time; still am). Had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN about them until, on Friday, I wandered down the mystery shelves @ the library and squinted into the MAR section. There they were. Ah, shiny...
But yes, on top of all the stuff about getting lucky money in red envelope at my birth & mom mistaking me for Asiatic nurse's baby while still on childbirth painkillers, methinks I have found exactly what I primed the ol' Sinophilic, HK-lovin' pump with.
Think I'm gonna see if the used bookstores have any of these babies for sale. I miss Christopher O'Yee, and Harry Feiffer, Auden, Spencer, and all the rest of the Precinct.
