If you had your Druthers which Author would you Choose To Be

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 31 Jan 2014, 13:26

Dorothy Parker, Author, Satirist, Poet, Critic, Screenwriter...

( also Isak Dinesen, aka / Karen Blixen ( Out of Africa ), and Camille Paglia,( if i were gay i'd marry her )...brilliant and FUNNY

...extraordinarily creative...

Jolijt · Post by **Jolijt** » 31 Jan 2014, 15:02

I'd have to say... J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter version. I didn't like her other two books...

But the imagination and the creativity in finding new words ...yes that I would love be master of.

(learned a new word

never heard 'Druthers' before)

Aussie-reader · Post by **Aussie-reader** » 31 Jan 2014, 20:26

Jolijt wrote: (learned a new word never heard 'Druthers' before)

I've never heard it either.

What does your question mean OP?

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 02 Mar 2014, 08:04

If I had my druthers
Meaning
If I had my preference.

Origin
This is an American phrase and not used widely elsewhere. People elsewhere in the world might want to know what druthers are, as the phrase conveys otherwise. Druthers is a shortening of 'would rathers'. The phrase originated in the late 19th century and is first cited in the January 1870 edition of Overland monthly and Out West magazine, in a story called Centrepole Bill, by George F. Emery:

"If I was a youngster, I 'drather set up in any perfession but a circus-driver, but a man can't always have his 'drathers."

Druthers, as opposed to its earlier variant drathers, is traced back to 1876 in Dialect Notes:

"Bein's I caint have my druthers an' set still, I cal'late I'd better pearten up an' go 'long."

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 02 Mar 2014, 13:12

Funny Suzi, they were befuddled-there's another great word

-by "druthers", my kid was dumbfounded by Bing Crosby. We made a joke the other day about Bing hawking orange juice. My older boy had no idea what a Bing Crosby was...
I try to keep up...I could draw a bunch of Rhianna's tattoo's with some accuracy...but our cultural references...depressing sometimes

I would want to be an author who will still be reprinted fifty years on, someone who made a difference and didn't have a tragic life...otherwise I'd be James Baldwin...how about
Judy Blume or Rita Mae Brown

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 02 Mar 2014, 14:04

L.B., you have good taste in writer Rita Mae Brown...............i own her first book RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE ...

A highly educated woman w/several degrees, ( one a doctorate in political science )

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 02 Mar 2014, 17:13

suzy1124 wrote:L.B., you have good taste in writer Rita Mae Brown...............i own her first book RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE ...

A highly educated woman w/several degrees, ( one a doctorate in political science )

Quite handsome in her youth as well. You surprise me all the time, I wouldn't imagine you having "Rubyfruit Jungle" in your library. A friend gave me it when I was a teen, I was a sheltered kid and it boggled my mind...then I read it a hundred more times