Up against the wall (or actually, on it)

by Diane Duane

This is such a cool thing.

Some months back I had a nice email from Melissa Elliott, who’s the Senior Librarian in charge of Young Adult Services at the Burbank Public Library in southern California. (You know, as in “Beautiful Downtown Burbank.”) She was asking whether they could use a quote from one of the Young Wizards books (from So You Want to Be a Wizard, in fact) to decorate one of the walls in their new teen section.

It was absolutely charming to be asked something like this, so naturally I gave my permission, and didn’t think much more about it. But this morning, I had another email from Melissa… with pictures.

It’s funny the impact it can suddenly make on you when something like this happens. You find yourself thinking, “Wait. Somebody took something I said and painted it on a wall? And not as graffiti? What planet is this?”

…Whatever: it’s a planet I like. I very much hope I have a chance to get out to LA some time in ’12, as I’d love to head over to Burbank and see it in person.

 

(ETA: I didn’t even realize we had these in the CafePress shop, so if anyone wants one, feel free…)

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22 comments

Bjorn December 23, 2011 - 5:37 pm

The link to these 
http://www.cafepress.com/youngwizards/3808673 is broken 🙂

Anonymous December 23, 2011 - 6:22 pm

 Oops! Nice catch. Fixed now. Thanks, B!

Bjorn December 23, 2011 - 5:37 pm

The link to these 
http://www.cafepress.com/youngwizards/3808673 is broken 🙂

dianeduane December 23, 2011 - 6:22 pm

 Oops! Nice catch. Fixed now. Thanks, B!

Edglaser1958 December 23, 2011 - 7:19 pm

Huzzah! Huzzah! Congratulations, Diane! Huzzah!

Edglaser1958 December 23, 2011 - 7:19 pm

Huzzah! Huzzah! Congratulations, Diane! Huzzah!

Isaac Hale December 23, 2011 - 7:36 pm

Congrats! This is too awesome. I’m checking this out the next time I’m visiting LA!

Isaac Hale December 23, 2011 - 7:36 pm

Congrats! This is too awesome. I’m checking this out the next time I’m visiting LA!

Joan Oakland December 24, 2011 - 2:48 am

The year after I graduated from high school, one of my senior year english teachers called me and asked if they could use one of my poems to tie the next years yearbook together. Same feeling, I bet. Compilation of “I’m honored” and “I’m so proud.”. I’m tickled for you. Have been a huge fan since Door Into Fire. Thanks, and keep on keepin’ on!

Joan Oakland December 24, 2011 - 2:48 am

The year after I graduated from high school, one of my senior year english teachers called me and asked if they could use one of my poems to tie the next years yearbook together. Same feeling, I bet. Compilation of “I’m honored” and “I’m so proud.”. I’m tickled for you. Have been a huge fan since Door Into Fire. Thanks, and keep on keepin’ on!

Anonymous December 24, 2011 - 3:08 am

If you do get to Burbank, there’s a small cafe in the Burbank airport that makes incredible chocolate chip cookies. Really incredible. 

medievalist December 24, 2011 - 3:08 am

If you do get to Burbank, there’s a small cafe in the Burbank airport that makes incredible chocolate chip cookies. Really incredible. 

Garry Swanwick December 24, 2011 - 3:10 am

I’m please to find such and obvious truism with which the developing reader/mind can use, but as you know, in the uk and I suspect most of the emerald isle, chips and crisps are quite different items( crisps are what our across the pond cousins would call ‘chips’ and ‘chips’ are a kind of butcher french fry or perhaps in some cases, even wedges, might one humbly suggest a translation to ‘reading one book is like having a bag of crisps and only eating one’

P J Evans December 24, 2011 - 3:36 am

 It’s pretty hard to eat only one chip of either kind. (At least if they’re good.)

Garry Swanwick December 24, 2011 - 3:10 am

I’m please to find such and obvious truism with which the developing reader/mind can use, but as you know, in the uk and I suspect most of the emerald isle, chips and crisps are quite different items( crisps are what our across the pond cousins would call ‘chips’ and ‘chips’ are a kind of butcher french fry or perhaps in some cases, even wedges, might one humbly suggest a translation to ‘reading one book is like having a bag of crisps and only eating one’

P J Evans December 24, 2011 - 3:36 am

 It’s pretty hard to eat only one chip of either kind. (At least if they’re good.)

Paul Zolbrod December 24, 2011 - 5:55 am

Kudos to you!  As a veteran college English teacher now in his fifty-first consecutive year in the classroom who looks with dismay at how unread so many college students are, I wish to declare that we need all the potato chip eaters we can get. 

Paul Zolbrod December 24, 2011 - 5:55 am

Kudos to you!  As a veteran college English teacher now in his fifty-first consecutive year in the classroom who looks with dismay at how unread so many college students are, I wish to declare that we need all the potato chip eaters we can get. 

Gary Shepherd December 24, 2011 - 3:57 pm

I’ve always loved and related to this truism.
 

Gary Shepherd December 24, 2011 - 3:57 pm

I’ve always loved and related to this truism.
 

SpacePen January 6, 2012 - 6:38 am

Is this a line from one of the characters in SYWTBAW?  I don’t remember it!  Oh dear, I guess that means I’ll have to read it again… (I was waiting for the, um, New Millenium ebook edition before doing that, but an older revision will have to do for now…)

SpacePen January 6, 2012 - 6:38 am

Is this a line from one of the characters in SYWTBAW?  I don’t remember it!  Oh dear, I guess that means I’ll have to read it again… (I was waiting for the, um, New Millenium ebook edition before doing that, but an older revision will have to do for now…)

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