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Genevieve

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About Genevieve

  • Birthday 09/19/1967

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    Agatha Christie, Come, tell me how you live
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  • Interests
    sculpture, ancient Celtic, Middle-Eastern dance and music; the Dance, still do ballet barre excercises for the stretching! Free lance writing and working with damaged children, they are the face of God to me.

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  1. Two long years without your kind words and healing spirit. I hope you have all you need in life Genevieve. X

  2. where did you go!

  3. Hi Genevieve, I hope you and your family are well, I have missed seeing you around on the forum x

  4. Hi Genevieve. I hope life is treating you well. Hope to see you again one day. xx

  5. Passing by to say hi...hope you are all well

  6. you ran across my mind today. I pray you and your family are well. I miss your sweet, gentle

    and encouraging posts. come back soon. you are missed!

  7. Dear sweet Genevieve, I hope all is well with you, I miss you :)

  8. I find Plato to be very enchanting, something about the rythmn of his words, wonderful, oui, the best
  9. Just to come in to your beautiful world here is so soothing to my heart. You are a treasure and a gift and you must never forget it.

  10. Well, I love very much the rythmn and style and elegance of the era and Jane Austen is a master at putting all that forth in her works,oui, she is genious Me, I have mixed feelings always about Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy if it comes to it. Elizabeth, while totally charming and intelligent is too changeable in my opinion. She is passionate this way, condemming here and justifying there, and then , voila, she changes about face and is the very opposite. She never seems to stick to anything. And there is a scene that has always disturbed me. When aunt and uncle Gardener want her to tour Mr. Darcy's 'home' at first glance she is swept away and there is some conversation about the grandness of the place rendering the owner a little less objectionable and she, Elizabeth agrees. And later when the housekeeper is taking the trio for the grande tour she murmurs that she could have been mistress of all this. I know absolutely that those days were rather mercenary ones, one needed the best 'situation ' one could obtain to be 'happy' and to make one's family happy, but Elizabeth to me, seems to throw out the window some of her principles in this. Although Jane seems a little less 'feisty' I like her steadiness more, and Mr. Bingly too. But really I respect the annoying Mary, who believes what she believes and goes for it even though she can clear a room in seconds! And I am a little amazed by Charlotte Lucas who can say she is not romantic,and then take Mr. Collins and somehow carry on with a measure of quiet happiness. Me, I could not! But I do love the story . A family member bought me years ago a second edition copy and then the complete series in tape. And this year for Christmas he bought me the dvd set and the complete written works of Jane Austen. I am overwhelmed.
  11. I read this story only when a very little girl in a British school I attended. I must say Charlie broke my heart and the cruelty of others was truly frightening to me. The teacher I did not like nor trust and I think maybe she had something wrong with her emotionally to even contemplate her relationship with Charlie. And I felt frightened for the poor little Alernon as well, he also had not the freedom to live, but must comply to what was done to him. I remember crying after for weeks and was greatly disturbed. I think we should never have read the story at such a young age and I could never bring myself to read this body of work again, non, not ever! However aside from that I think the author was a brilliant writer.
  12. Hello there my beautiful friend! I hope you're doing well, Genevieve. It always makes me smile to see your name pop up here on the forum. You're such a lovely beacon of light! Hope you're well. xx

  13. Me, I am an ardant devotee to Hugo and having read his biography I think his actual life was even more adventurous than his books! For me the entire story was to show the inequality of the classes and the prejudices of people and how they dealt with them. Jean, having had such a terrible life chooses to do good,bring something noble out of something so ugly and despairing. He is treated with kindness one time and it changes his life, non? But others, feeding on their prejudices and their views on each of the classes choose cruelty , or putting a greater value on the law than on a human life and need for forgiveness and redemption. Some because of true and noble if misguided reasons, others because of anger and hate at the things that have happened in their own lives. It is stirring and makes you wonder what would have happened if different people chose different behaviours, how great would that have changed many many lives. Wonderful book.
  14. Charles Dickens totally fascinates me and because of some things in my life I can identify with certain characters. This gives me strenght and the courage, oui, to go on. And knowing that this man started off in life in uncertain and unkind circumstances and despite the odds became well known and admired in his own day is nothing short of miraculous, non? Therefore his words have great dignity and meaning to me. I must admit that Great Expectations gave me depression for weeks after-the class snobbery, the cruelty of man against man, the woman who was so cruel , the old insane self pitying woman. As if any man who ditches you is worth ruining your life for in the end. I was both fascinated and repulsed by the book. Little Dorit was despairing as well to my mind and such but still such a great and marvellous piece of the life and times of a people at that time. You can read any of Dicken's books and be swept right back to the time and see how the top,middle, chattering and poor classes of the people lived. Amazing.
  15. Ah me, how I envy mon ami to live in such a place. You must never ever get bored, so much to do and see and ....I have to lay down!

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