That finger I found on Decatur Street

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This was never mentioned on a thread where it was on topic, so it seems silly to point it out on any of them, and if you clicked, you probably know what I'm talking about: in any case, the story oh so vaguely and remotely based on my finding a finger on Decatur Street is now up at Strange Horizons. I promised I'd point it when it was pointable.

So, there you go.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(Oh yeah: and 80% or so of the story was originally written for my Nanowrimo 2003 novel, which is about other things entirely and used this as a flashback to demonstrate a pattern on the part of Our Hero. So there you go, again.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll read this tonight when I can zone more comfortably at home, but it starts out wonderfully! The concluding phrase of the first paragraph is excellent.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Great, I love New Orleans stories.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No matter how much crap they build on it I think Decatur will always have that rough-sailor, finger-finding charm.

― adam (adam), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Moreso than Bourbon, somehow. I think the river helps.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Decatur Street is usually my oasis, an opportunity to decompress and get coffee at duMonde and cds at Louisiana Music Factory between other N.O. activities. But then, I've never found any fingers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you just weren't looking.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"In Search of the Wily Finger"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Decatur is the best place to watch them hosing down the streets on a Sunday morning, which was always my favorite French Quarter thing. Well, that and the fried chicken and jambalaya at Coop's, but those can be combined.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I say as much in the story, I guess. An unusually large amount, for me, of that story is autobiographical.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I spent more time on Decatur just because it sounds better in French.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

When I asked how to get there, foolishly assuming it had a French-derived pronunciation, nobody I asked had any idea what I was talking about.

― Pangolino again, Monday, 22 November 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was told about some famous coffee stand was on DeKater street I had no clue I had already been there.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha - the New Orleans rule of thumb seems to be 'think of the way you'd least expect a street to be pronounced, and that'll be the way everyone says it.' Esplanade rhymes with lemonade, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, nothing French is French in Louisiana (somewhat less true in the rural wet parts, but even then the French is not recognizable to non-native French speakers). Even before the Americans came in, the Spanish were there, and then the Germans, and the Italian population was dense enough that much of the Quarter used to be called Little Palermo -- and even the French was diffused by a ton of dialects living together.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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