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Actually, no, but I still enjoyed it (as I recall.) It's been a while since I read either one, but I can chant "Matthew, Mark, Luke and Wei, lead us to this perfect day" with the best of them. :) I think I'll put This Perfect Day on my to-be-reread list.

Odd's bodkins, mehastings. I don't know how you found the time, but thank you! :) where this one came from

Read Sliver. :D

Which other planets? Sunrise or sunset?

I'm feeling encouraged, MC. The book just moved up a notch in my TBR pile. :) It had begun looking more and more ominous to me -- looming and leering, almost. I had begun to shove things in front of it.

And I intend to use this one. A lot. ;)

I hear ya, Peder. I can't tell you how helpful this is going to be to me :D

Good one, MC. I tried googling stole my thunder and got nothing good, so I'm going to go with your explanation.

without both his socks

Dagmara's lovely little parting gift? Surprised the heck out of me! And this was a man who began his sentences with the words "And whither" and who was picking whortleberries. I was already growing fond of him and he'd only been onstage for barely a minute.

Ah. Okay then, we'll let him get away with that one. Maybe they were very, very small diamonds? I love it that they were in a chamois pouch. That entire sentence had texture, didn't it?

Me too, Prairie Girl. Ah'm a believer. ;)

Thank you , Peder, a kind word or two will go a long way with this gal right about now. So ... if it's okay with youse guys, I'll just comment as I go along. Really, though -- the man just packs SO much information into every paragraph, doesn't he? I really can see him writing his books...

Nabokov describes the author as recalling ("I transcribe from a diary") that the "two or three small diamonds that I kept in a chamois pouch melted away faster than hailstones." If you were "a self-exiled youth on the gray eve of poverty" wouldn't you know which it had been? If it had indeed...

Peder's right. We're all pretty much attached to our own opinions already. I do have to say that I think the entire discussion was worth it though, if only to see the phrase ad hominem used so aptly.

You're right as rain, muggle. I just thought it might be fun to discuss their origins. Maybe a moderator will combine the two threads?

Good-O, Gem ........................... and while we're at it ...

Don't be silly, savvy. Leave worrying about getting old to old people.

like "Kilroy was here..."

Do people literally "split the sheets"? "Hair of the dog" refers to an old-timey rabies remedy, I think. Probably never worked on real rabies though.