They say

[james_davis_nicoll]

If you look into a mirror and say "David Brin" out loud three times, he will show up and denounce you for gossiping about him.

Comments

[catherineldf]

Is there a spell for banishing him afterward?

[james_davis_nicoll]

No.

[onyxlynx]

I get a cave troll and Beetlejuice.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

The experiment has begun!

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Three hundred "David Brins" so far, and he hasn't shown up. I'm getting kind of hoarse, so no more than another hundred and two repetitions.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

That's what you get for looking into a mirror.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

If you were an adult like him, you'd see how your gossip is just part of the petty politics that he rises above.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

Seeing as how mirrors invert everything, is it safe to say this isn't a left-versus-right issue either?

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

so one would then have to say nirbdivad and inverse of three times? Now my brain hurts..

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

nir

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Or, depending on where the mirror was, u!jq p!^ep ?

--Dave, will enantiomorph for food

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

He will demonstrate this by building a flying car lifted solely by an under-body framework holding computers running realtime feeds of the SFWA kerfluffle.

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to wish I knew nothing about any of the writers I like.

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

Just had to say, those very words had just left my brain approximately two seconds before I read your remark.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Ex Ignorantia Ad Sapientiam; Ex Luce Ad Tenebras.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I prefer not to summon that which cannot be put down.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Move to Florida first...

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

I've been saying "David Breen" and all that's happened is my dorm has gotten colder.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

If you say "Wallace Breen" the Earth gets conquered, so don't do that either.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I had to put my phone mute after getting a call literally a second after reading that...

[tandw.livejournal.com]

And we'll just skip right over what happens if you say "Walter Breen," but it's bad. Really.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

It's past time for that manure pit to be cleaned out too. It's been fifty years, and Ye Olde Fandom still clams up whenever that name is mentioned.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

How much of Ye Olde Fandom is left around to clam up about him, anyway? (Hmmm...a few authors left from around then; Ellison, Silverberg, who else?)

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Oh, Breen was still molesting children pretty much until the day they put him in prison. That was in the early 1990s. All those fen, all those authors, keeping their mouths shut because they didn't want to rock the boat (or worse), for nearly thirty years.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Gah. Maybe it's because the fandom I was largely peripheral to was in the Upper Midwest, but I hadn't heard anything about the unlamented Mr. Breen until well after he died.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a name I probably didn't want to remember.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Yeah; unfortunately, not being familiar with Half-Life that was the first thing I thought of when I saw Wallace Breen.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Aw, I made fun of him on a previous thread and I get nothing. I feel inadequately despised.

I guess my mistake was in only mentioning him twice.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Were you looking into a mirror while posting?

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Harder to type that way.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Didn't happen to me.

Pretty sure we don't have any problems with each other!

Thanks for the accidental reminder to re-read Existence, by the by!

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

OK, I admit defeat. I tried to find the context and failed. Is this related to the current SFWA/Fodera kerfuffle, or some other madness unfolding in the depths of usenet?

[sanskritabelt.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, you could do that, but why would you risk it.