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Oh, nice one, Jack!! And Robyn and Jonathan, yee haa!
The pics look great. What a neat thing for PA.
Jackson, I used to have a Canon G5 and now have a G9. A great series! :-) Powerful, but small enough to carry and use without fuss. My only real complaint is they can't take a polariser.
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Muse: Friday Fluff: Shelf Life, in reply to Kate Hannah,
Grace’s creepy sulleness and ambiguity
Was she sullen? It's many years since I read that book, but I rather liked her. I thought she was brave. Perhaps I need to re-read it.
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Muse: Friday Fluff: Shelf Life, in reply to Sacha,
not a word I’ve ever heard any confusion over
lol. Well except for book-lovers?
ETA: I've recently discovered the word "bibliophage", which I Iike very much.
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Muse: Friday Fluff: Shelf Life, in reply to Jackie Clark,
no books. Just sex.
I can't feel sexy about someone I don't connect with in other ways, that's just how I am. And sharing books can be an awesome connection.
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1) What are you reading at the moment?
Juliet, naked by Nick Hornby. Just finished Embassytown by China Mieville. You all gotta read Embassytown! It’s like Ursula le Guin, but also technically inventive and poetic.2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
I don’t think I ever did…I just waited a while and turned the light back on…Mum went to bed early.3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
I always cry over books. Isn’t that normal??4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
All poetry I think: Cave Birds by Ted Hughes, Collected Poems of e. e. cummings, and maybe some Tennyson.5) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with?
Preston, in Terry Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight.6) If you could write a self-help book, what would you call it?
A Little Help From My Friends [clearly, there must be a Beatles reference]7) Which book, which play, and which poem would you make compulsory reading in high school English classes?
Book, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Play, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
Poem, The Knight by Ted Hughes.8) Which party from literature would you most like to have attended?
The storytelling party in The Decameron. Or, Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday.9) What would you title your memoirs?
Surely I’m Too Young For This?10) If you were an actor, which literary character do you dream of playing?
Portia in The Merchant of Venice.11) What book would you give to a lover?
Jackie makes a good point. But reading aloud to each other is also a lovely thing! I’d give a lover as many of my favourite books as he’d agree to read.12) Spying Mein Kampf or Dan Brown on someone’s bookshelf can spell havoc for a friendship. What’s your literary deal breaker?
A deal breaker for me is no books! There are people who don’t have ’em. -
Dammit, this takes some thought! Perhaps in the morning.
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Has anyone already posted this gem from Denis Welch?
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Muse: Lights, Camera, Music!, in reply to JacksonP,
love the Tom Waits clip – it’s almost a short film on its own.
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Maybe Michael Nyman deserves a mention here? Not just Greenaway, but also The Piano, Gattaca, and The End of the Affair (which would have been much less without it).
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Muse: Lights, Camera, Music!, in reply to JacksonP,
once you hit Greenaway, days pass, and before you know it you’re being slow roasted over a fire and consumed by your peers. Or drowned.
Word.
Bagdad Cafe!! Thanks for the reminder.