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I really want to know: 1. What constitutes "light reading" to you, Peder? and 2. WHO THE BLAZES ARE THESE 'BAKER STREET IRREGULARS'? :confused:

When you are through rolling on the floor, you may wish to sober up and shed a tear or two for the human beings who are suffering; you have children of your own, I believe?

Oh, mercy -- Peder's doing it too.

pontalba! You're reading Proust and Nabokov at the same time? What're you trying to do, sprain your brain? :eek: I'm reading Carole Nelson Douglas (the female A. C. Doyle) to give my own brain a break.

I'm laughing, pontalba! I do have strong opinions, but I don't own that particular book. I do have Speak, Memory, but not Strong Opinions -- not yet. I utterly shudder to think of our feisty little Lo ending up in the backyard incinerator unrevealed, unreviled and unread. On another...

Hi, hearty! What're you reading?

... and he also had his Vera! Okay, thanks guys, I'm feeling better already. :) (Still, putting the exacto knife away ...)

The only way to stop killing is to stop killing. Pray for peace, vote for peace, work for peace, speak up for peace and do it every day. It's the only answer, and it's the responsiblity of us all. We've got to stop sending our children off to kill other people's children, and we've got to...

You don't suspect this story of being apocryphal?

hehe, okay, pontalba, one of these days here I'm going to dredge up my dung beetles, give them a quick scrubbing off, and then get you all to help me make them look palatable (so to speak.) The way they are now, they threaten to be an eternal embarrassment to me. It'll be an excellent exercise...

As always, Peder, you are the soul of infinite tact and kindliness, but I'm beginning to wonder if any aspiring writer should even read Nabokov. He just never put a single foot wrong anywhere that I have seen. I mean, perfection can be lived with, but endlessly creative perfection? A...

I just saw this! Omigod! I have been guilty of this very thing, and he is absolutely right. And you can never, ever undo the harm.

like late-night and naughty

Heavenly days, that man could write. And punctuate (or not.) Where on earth does one learn how to do what Nabokov did in a single lifetime?

over, using uncluttered, easy-to-use

thanks to rick green over on palimpsest

Cathy Do you read Doonesbury?

Adults and kids both need a break in which to remember that there is another world outside of (and aside from) those structures.

SFG 75= We are all capable of doing this. It's what has made it possible for us to continue sending our children of to kill other people's children down through the ages.