05-09-2015, 01:05 PM
You and I did a book crawl in SF back when you and S lived in Daly City, if I recall correctly. LCF and I were in a Chinese culture and martial arts acquisition phase, getting books on idioms, symbolism, language, art, culture, etc.
This might have been when LCF was starting on her lion dance novel. Me, I was always working on something with a Chinese setting. Oddly, I've never really completed or sold anything with a specific martial arts context -- as far as I can recall. Very odd.
During our crawl, I remember at one point we were just starting down stairs to the Bart, and there was this loud rush of footsteps of someone passing close by, and you turned with noticeable alertness to check the dude. That's when I realized we weren't in a very good part of town, and I was rather conspicuous carrying two huge, heavy bags of books.
We would have been a whole lot safer with Honor Blackman at our side. But nooooo, you had to put that book back.
(Just a guess that this might have been the occasion.)
This might have been when LCF was starting on her lion dance novel. Me, I was always working on something with a Chinese setting. Oddly, I've never really completed or sold anything with a specific martial arts context -- as far as I can recall. Very odd.
During our crawl, I remember at one point we were just starting down stairs to the Bart, and there was this loud rush of footsteps of someone passing close by, and you turned with noticeable alertness to check the dude. That's when I realized we weren't in a very good part of town, and I was rather conspicuous carrying two huge, heavy bags of books.
We would have been a whole lot safer with Honor Blackman at our side. But nooooo, you had to put that book back.
(Just a guess that this might have been the occasion.)