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I am checking off two points right now! # Learn an instrument. (The guitar. I still don't like chords that require four left-hand fingers in different places, but I'm getting there...) # Write a novel. (Proof-reading busily. Wrote it with my cousin, but it so counts!!) (Am somewhere between...

Empty your mailbox, dude! Or is it a deliberate tactic to avoid PMs? ;) *mrkgnao*

Geez, googling on this, tons of people use my nick... :shrug: Here it is, from Ulysses: Another slice of bread and butter: three, four: right. She didn’t like her plate full. Right. He turned from the tray, lifted the kettle off the hob and set it sideways on the fire. It sat there, dull and...

I guess it's like the story of Michelangelo and the horse... (I've heard it with lots of different artists): the artist sculptured a beautiful horse out of marble. People asked, How did you do it?! The artist replied, The horse was always there, in this slab of marble. All I did was bring it...

If it's perceivable - though not describable/definable - it can't be nothing, right? If it's nothing-able whatsoever, then it might be nothing. Probably, we'll never know about nothing. ;) Being unable to identify only shows the limits of humankind and the world, not of Something or Nothing...

over the walls and

Surely you mean there's a Bob Dylan quote for nothing? ;) *mrkgnao*

A six-course banquet of nothing with a scoop of sod-all as a palate cleanser... :rolleyes: Ah, tiny Grasshopper, but It is not a peach-that-has-a-core, but rather an-onion-that-only-has-layers. :p “I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.” (O.W.)...

My gut reaction is that Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury should be read by (1) everyone who's ever read (at least) one book, (2) everyone who's never read a book, and (3) everyone else. Not saying thereby it's The Best Book Ever. I might come back to this thread... :rolleyes: *mrkgnao*

Wow, we're famous! :cool: If people want to join this highly select group, I was just thinking that the book I'm reading now, A walk on the wild side by Nelson Algren, could be a good warming up exercise before diving into Pynchon. Algren mostly stays in one place (New Orleans) and one time...

Thomas Pynchon is (allegedly) coming out with a new novel!!! :D :dance of joy: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_en_ot/books_thomas_pynchon There won't be an author tour... :rolleyes: *mrkgnao*

Epilogue?? :eek: Damn, I missed that... What was in it? I totally agree about the tentacle fetish, and also a strange fascination for rolling people about in circular contraptions... :rolleyes: But there was a bit too much Will Turner and a bit too little Captain Jack! *mrkgnao*

off on the nervous

dusting of chocolate, which

handy instruments, vanilla-tasting and

I think my most annoying character so far has been Patrick Bateman (American Psycho). OK, as a character he's not annoying, he's absolutely despicable and impossible to read - but the annoying thing about him is that I liked Ellis as a writer, but I couldn't finish the book on account of...

Not informed but felt I can only agree. But I have the very scary and sad feeling that if there will be a WWIII it will start somewhere in the middle east this time: which takes absolutely no blame whatsoever - in point of fact, buckets of blame everywhere - away from the "rest" of the...

Exercise bores me. But I do do yoga, albeit irregularly, because it loosens up the whole body and feels so great. Other than that, I walk. I mosey, wander, stroll, hike, tramp and gumshoe, all over but preferably in forests, for hours. May I add, I have never seen a smiling jogger. :p ;) I miss...

Sure! I'm a deviant as the laziest girl in town... because I love contradictions ;) Photos, photo manipulations, poems and the first chapters of my very hard-boiled PI novel... *mrkgnao*

Weellll... We did a lot of calculating, and found we had to sell waaay more books per day than we had thought, based on the original idea... :rolleyes: So now we're waiting for The Genius Idea to pop up and save the day! :D *mrkgnao*