By the way, the Miraflores rental is, indeed, most likely Señor Segedy, who recently returned to Lima and, from what I understand, just opened up a New York style pizza place near (but not on) Pizza Street.

You know what else I was going to say? Well, you probably don’t. But what I had meant to say was that I was happy to see you also made the undead/unread connection. (My “unread, unread” title is actually due to me having Bela Lugosi’s Dead running through my head.)

I read a bunch of these in high school, too, but apparently had a different reading list. I got a lot of Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. (And liked them both. Does this mean I should like General Hospital?)

I read Watership Down as an adult. (Actually, most of the ones I read from this list were as an adult. I actually re-read the high school ones.) But as for the bunny book, while I don’t remember dripslobber, I did retain some Lapine vocab: hrair (a number bigger than 4) and tharn (the deer-in-the-headlights type of temporary paralysis.)

laloca sez: queen dripslobber was the queen of the dogs, i think. and i’m fairly sure stephen king has used “tharn” in some of his books – he often borrows from other sources. lisey’s story is a great example of that (and not a bad read); he spends several pages at the end of the book remarking on some of the not-him source materials.