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No surprises here ... Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in...

I can't believe it took me so long to finally get around to reading my first Cormac McCarthy books (All the Pretty Horses, Cities of the Plain, The Crossing) since simply everyone kept on saying how amazing he is (which he is), but this one sounds pretty depressing. You read it first.

Oh-oh. No beard? You're sure? Not JFK with a beard maybe?

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ar·mor (ärÆmÃr), n. any quality, characteristic, situation, or thing that serves as protection: Also, esp. Brit., armour. Point well taken, chris. ;) But -- that's the very song we were singing together in the bathroom, muggle -- when I was telling you that I thought you looked just...

I finished AaA last night and found it to be oddly diverting and amusing. I almost wrote "pleasantly diverting" but that seemed the wrong word to use since the book is based on a real-life murder. I guess the fact that it happened thirty years ago makes it seem a bit unreal to me (although that...

I'm reading Aiding and Abetting, by Muriel Spark. It's the weirdest thing, but the book is making me think about the OJ Simpson case. The similarity I see is that nobody wanted to believe that he did it until after it was too late. Here are a couple of links: Aiding and Abetting...

Let's all take a deep breath here; I wasn't trying to start a war. Actually, I was smiling to myself when pontalba pointed out that sometimes "silence is the best course" because I was feeling as if I had just about run out of I am pretty much a pacifist by nature, and as such have had...

Omigosh, here I was missing all the interesting posts and now I have to run off without "offering" anything. Let me think on this one a bit. bbl :D

I think we all post (and reply to posts) about the things that interest us -- and there seems to be room enough for all of them here. The essence of Ell's words continue to echo in my ears -- er, eyes: Charity is just getting her feet beneath her here; maybe if we play our cards right we can...

Chris, I'm going to let you answer that question for yourself. I'm also going to let you have the last word here.

Ronny, if your sense of humor is even the tiniest little bit warped (which I suspect it is), you will probably love The Corrections. :D

Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to discuss these things with you, Chris. During it I remembered a couple of things that I really needed to remember.

Wiser and more eloquent folks than I am have been addressing the results of racism and prejudice since the beginnings of recorded time, xBasx, and I'm having enough trouble trying to defend the outlandish notion of possible peaceful coexistence in another thread. humans

This time I'll let the man who was MLK Jr.'s teacher answer your question, Chris: In other words, I would probably be safe in assuming that the other person has a family too. I feel certain that Mahatma Gandhi had all of these same questions put to him many times before he was shot...

Couldn't resist: Stations of the Mel Edit: I just now read the Albom article on Gibson and I have to say that the man makes sense. But I also have to admit that the above made me me laugh. Oh! Back on subject -- thanks for this suggestion, xBasx, I'll probably get this one for my...

So, I've read and seen The Hours and I've seen Mrs Dalloway and I've read To the Lighthouse, and now I want to reread Mrs Dalloway and see To the Lighthouse (with Richard Brannagh, of course). And then I will want to read at least one biography of VW. And then maybe I'll be ready to see...

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I lingered over To the Lighthouse this time. I'm tempted to read a biography of her now if anyone has any suggestions? In it is one of the only two times I've read reference to this flower asphodel

Are you on an island, Aqua?