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I do so love losers. I do so love Hugh Laurie, mostly for his comedy with Stephen Fry. But, I might recommend Douglas Coupland as an author if you like the other two. Also, Edward St. Aubyn doesn't come out great in his stuff. And if you can stand pure American, Jonathan Lethem is a good loser.

Last night I had dream that I was in school again, but it was boarding school, and my whole family was there, and I heard a reliable rumor that a bunch of guys (short and dark haired with mustaches) were going to come in the night and kill us, and then I heard a car pulll up in the driveway. It...

President of Belarus

The Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker is a must-read. So much better than Sebastian Faulks. The books, in order, are: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and the Ghost Road. They are fiction, but based on the experience of Siegfried Sasson, the famous WWI poet who had a horrific war and then...

Exactly. Some of my favorite people are selfish slobs.

I know the guy who was recently US ambassador to Belarus, George Krol. He's a sweetheart. They say his Belarusian is better than Lukashenko's.

Stewart, please don't be a sweaty-tongued hound. If someone is having a bad trip, it is our duty to talk him down from the ceiling without breaking the china. I'll be Jane Banks.

I knew that. Okay, here's a tricky one. What does it mean 'to matter'? Is it better to 'make a difference' or to not 'make a difference'? Let's say you're not Al Gore for a minute.

See Harper Lee thread. That kind of day, innit?

Part I: Being a Person-- First, think about yourself and how you relate to the world. Number Two: Communicate with other people. Number Three: Do not repeat what everyone else in the world has already done.

You sound like Proust.

I don't think anyone is noticing your true nature.

Anyone notice a pattern here? Am I the hero of the downtrodden flametards? Let's see . . . golden egg for the day . . . Squeeze your little pink eyes together and think really hard until you blow up in a million billion little piglet molecules that will self-replicate like earthworms and...

If you read the thread I linked to, you will see discussion on mourning and loss in CITR.

Hi Doc, I don't usually respond to member intros, but I like your style. Sean Connery was the best Bond. My son and I started a screenplay whereby he would come back as the aged Bond, with an aged Q, and a cranky old Moneypenny, etc. Thought it would be cool. If you can get him to commit...

Can't you say something more?

Oh, no wonder that post was well written, though completely without context. What an asshole. Thank you, Stewart.

MS, I'm with tartan skirt. Not sure what you're referring to. It would be best to continue such a 'continuation' of whatever you're referring to on the thread where it was originally discussed. Nobody can just guess what you said somewhere else some time ago. Also, these cases were discussed...

I think that you don't have a clue. You could write 4 or 5 books on each chapter in Campbell's book. So when you say 'that was the only idea I thought of' I wonder whether you have the least notion of what you're talking about.

What do you mean that's the only idea you thought of? Which idea are you referring to?