dolan's cadillac

[wally wonder]

hi. came across some more "blue and yellow" here in dolan's cadillac. "the blue and the yellow the ones turn the starter." so said tink, or his more formal name, tinker, the humongous black bulldozer operator who likes mcdonald's fruit pies.

so, i looked. did an "advanced search" for "blue and yellow". one thing came up, some locked thread about gay marriage, all the and words highlighted in...red, i think. didn't go through all 12 pages to see if "blue and yellow" was there, combined. put the words in " " marks.

why those colors? wireman's beach scooter has blue and yellow stripes, i think. and the boy in deadzone, the one with the blue and yellow snowsuit.
what happens if you mix blue and yellow? remember doing that w/crayons? green maybe? dunno, maybe another thread destined to slink into the hallway of doom, along w/ most of my other threads.

anyway, the blue and the yellow here have to do w/wires. red and green go together, like christmas, as tinker tells robinson...what is his first name? dunno if i caught it. so, that/s it then.

bye.

[brandon]

hmmmm.... what did you say that green meant in the auras of "Insomnia"? Better go look.....

[brandon]

hmmmm.... what did you say that green meant in the auras of "Insomnia"? Better go look.....

Ok, found it. Yellow&blue= green. You thought green might mean confusion and paranoia in Insomnia. It seems to fit with what was going on in dolans caddy.

[Ranger_Strider]

I have a few thoughts about : Dolan's Cadillac

First, I have read 'Danse Macabre' about twenty-five years ago, and there is something SK said in that that has always stuck in my mind. That is that all the really good stories have already been told and it is up to us to (more or less) contemporize those tales. So, in that light, Dolan's Cadillac is merely E.A. Poe's 'Cask of Amontillado' retold, with the stakes raised a bit.

Second, what bothers me is that in the endnotes of Nightmares and Dreamscapes SK speaks at length about his inspiration and genesis of that story, but never once nods to Poe.

Third, the excuse I proffer to all the people that tell me I should be a writer goes back to point one.

I can and could retread a ****load of crap, but why bother: to make money? Feh...it goes to insult.

[Coconut]

I have a few thoughts about : Dolan's Cadillac

First, I have read 'Danse Macabre' about twenty-five years ago, and there is something SK said in that that has always stuck in my mind. That is that all the really good stories have already been told and it is up to us to (more or less) contemporize those tales. So, in that light, Dolan's Cadillac is merely E.A. Poe's 'Cask of Amontillado' retold, with the stakes raised a bit.

Second, what bothers me is that in the endnotes of Nightmares and Dreamscapes SK speaks at length about his inspiration and genesis of that story, but never once nods to Poe.
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He says the inspiration came from driving through such a construction site, like that described in Dolan's Cadillac. However, the only allusion I can see is that Dolan

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is buried beneath the Earth

while Fortunato is buried behind a brick wall. The stories don't compare very well. At the most they are both tales of revenge.

[Pucker]

Why does the above post remind me of that fox and those grapes he could almost reach?

And more than that, why on earth would someone with such obvious disdain for writers who "retread a ****load of crap" bother reading anything at all?

Curiouser and curiouser.

[JellybeanJay]

Why does the above post remind me of that fox and those grapes he could almost reach?

And more than that, why on earth would someone with such obvious disdain for writers who "retread a ****load of crap" bother reading anything at all?

Curiouser and curiouser.

I agree with that. Not to be rude but sometimes I think people talk just to hear the sound of their own voice, hmmm, can't really say that here but maybe type just to exercise their fingers?

[Ericw]

I wonder if the critic has ever sat at a desk night after night, week after week, etc., adding yet another rejection slip to an entire host of rejection slips. I think anyone who does this is doing it because they love the craft and want someone else to enjoy something they wrote, not just for money. And I see nothing wrong with taking an older idea and putting a new spin on it. It's called imagination.

[Ranger_Strider]

First, Moderator is Fired! I was posting proper about literary thoughts. SK (Mr. Constant Writer himself) asks that constant readers call him on it when he is duplicitous.

Those last posters are nothing more than Daisy-Chained rapists trying to besmirch me. Moderator is fired for letting them play their games.

Check All my posts, you'll see that I talk always about the literary evaluations. Not bullying. Not raping. Not disrespecting. Check the actual texts of SK, lots of cussing. No hating.

[Moderator]

I guess it's fortunate for me that Steve makes the decision about whether I'm fired. You know, it is entirely possible that when he came up with the idea for "Dolan's Cadillac" that Poe did not even occur to him. That the similarity is obvious to you does not mean it was to him.