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I take my hat off to you fir getting EE Cummings - an old uni friend of mine tried to convert me and I could never see the fuss:lurker: but then, I'm old-fashioned; give me a shot of Byron and I'm happy .

Right - I've just seen the pilot of this, and fallen in love with each and every one of these guys. I then started to watch episode 1, and turned it off in rage... how dare they change two mains out of three, just like that?! I'm glad they've kept George but I can't help thinking they've replaced the other two on grounds of quirky looks and accents, which is just shameful. I really liked the original cast, not sure I want to watch it now !

Absolutely I just meant that schools don't always encourage creativity, imagination and free thought during poem dissection, which is probably why so many people are sick of it by the time they've grown up. I was lucky.

Objectivity, now what does that mean ? I think the entire reason I've always enjoyed dissecting poetry is because I tend to believe passionately in whatever I think a poem means and will defend my reading 'til the end of the world. I do agree that dissecting, as it is often (but thakfully not always) done in school, can be dreary and leave for dead any budding passion one may have for the subject. I reckon its teachers should be clamped Clockwork Orange-style in front of Dead Poets Society and learn a few tricks from Mr Keating...!

Today I read 56, count them: 56 pages of Eyes Like Stars *feels all accomplished* is this a mojo I see before me? Gosh, I'd forgotten what one looked like...!

Does it make me deranged that I love dissecting verse and could talk for hours about the structural make-up of poems ?

Suitcase. Pen or pencil?

Spain meets Japan tonight with King prawn & chorizo paella and chicken / prawn dim sum dumplings.

It's hardly a feminist manifesto and it's a very peculiar type of fiction, but Jasper Fforde's genius Thursday Next series (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels + the work in progress One of Our Thursdays Is Missing) features in the character of the same name one of the most real, believable, human heroines I've ever had the pleasure of reading about.

Indeed, that film was solely responsible for making me look into & subsequently become an adoring fan of Uncle Walt's !

Horror movie. Poetry or drama?

Seconded. Her Vindication of the Rights of Women is a seminal text. She is also Mary Shelley's Mum, which automatically makes her even cooler !

*shock gasp horror* there's this Indian place near King's Cross station where I always go with my Dad - who's a coinnosseur of the cuisine; you shall be dragged and enlightened . That's not dinner!!!

In reply to the original question , I (to quote Sir Terry Pratchett) '-ing' hope not! As a writer and scholar, reading/having suggested by MS Word words like 'color', 'theater' and 'summarize' really drives me up the wall and 'round the bend. My stance on the matter is pretty much summed up by the incredibly perceptive Mr Henry Higgins (the dialectician off My Fair Lady): ... there even are places where English completely disappears Well in America they haven't used it for years.

... yes. You, my friend, are getting educated on the joys of Indian food the instant you arrive in London ! Crash course: - Korma: mild, creamy curry - Tikka massala: medium, tangy curry - Samosa: pastry triangule filled with curried veggies or meat - Onion bahjis: balls of thinly sliced curried onions - Pakora: balls of curried veggies or meat

If you enjoy Neverwhere a millionth of how much I adored it, you'll soon be reading a lot more fantasy Lynn it's one of those few books to ever have made me say, 'I wanted to write that.' Against impossible odds, I've managed to read another 10 pages of Eyes Like Stars today; I'm nearly a third in now (shock statement!!!).

Girly night with a good DVD and munchies. Autograph or picture with your idol?

Chicken Korma/Tikka Massala, mini veggie samosas, mini onion bahjis & mini pakoras. Thank you, Tesco, for keeping me fed when I don't feel like cooking.

My memory, though terrible on practicalities such as 'hang the washing' and 'buy milk', is on average stupidly good with plotlines/characters/quotes/etc. from books. I'll start forgetting details around the 10 year mark, which is why I'm planning to re-read a.s.a.p. all those books I really loved when I was 15.

There's several print shops in my area but they are monstrously expensive, at least in proportion to my nonexistent budget as an unemployed person (when I got the two copies of my dissertation spiral-bound in September,

I've seen that and another similar one on eBay and I have been pondering them Vladd, it's just a matter of discovering whether anyone could turn the digital images into actual bookplates for my own personal entertainment.

I'm a seventeen year old girl with blue hair living in a theatre where all the characters from every play ever written are real.

I did notice and indeed began raging inside; then I decided that the day I find something in that secondhand section which I absolutely have to have I'll but it and rather than attempt to rub the price off I'll just overlay it with a nice bookplate as soon as I find someone to custom-make me some !

Ooooh I'd love to hear your thoughts on The Scientist as Rebel - it's one of the books I would have bought while in W's Gower St. last week had my wallet allowed! I've read a chapter and a half of Eyes Like Stars today, I'm hoping against hope I'll have the time to read the same before bed. ETA: Abby, I'm officially jealous of your haul.