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Post by jean on Jun 25, 2010 15:34:14 GMT
I've been here, cruising the Turkish coast:  Swimming and archaeology. What more could you want? |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 25, 2010 16:23:15 GMT
Swimming and archaeology. What more could you want? That's what all the girls say, these days, and I'm not saying they don't have a point. |
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Post by housesparrow on Jun 26, 2010 18:45:39 GMT
Ah Jean, Jack would be so envious!
I on the other hand get seasick on the pontoon.
Hope you had a brilliant holiday.
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Post by trubble on Jun 27, 2010 22:51:56 GMT
Well, personally, I blame Jean. Entirely.
I did the quiz, too, Mr Yutani, and it instructed me to post here. And I will. If someone doesn't interupt me soon I'll be talking to myself and choosing Ulysses as the Book Club Book of the Month. You have been warned.
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Post by Patrick on Jun 27, 2010 22:59:09 GMT
If someone doesn't interupt me soon I'll be talking to myself and choosing Ulysses as the Book Club Book of the Month. You have been warned. I do it all the time. it helps keep the Pixies away from the lino. I've been reading my brothers C.S.Lewis books. He wouldn't let me borrow them when I was 8 or 10, cos he said I bent the spines on them. The spines are still immaculate 30 years on. Revenge is sweet! Personally I don't think they particularly dazzle as piece of even children's literature, and I can see why I wasn't that impressed back then. Tove Jansson did it better. |
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Post by trubble on Jun 27, 2010 23:11:05 GMT
Is Tove the Moomins? I'm not sure about the Moomins, I think because I got to them too late. I like Aslan, & the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. I think that was a masterpiece. The rest were more hard-going and I lost interest. Susan Cooper did it better actually.
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Post by trubble on Jun 27, 2010 23:15:39 GMT
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Post by Patrick on Jun 27, 2010 23:33:20 GMT
It always annoyed me that everyone seemed to ignore "The Magicians Nephew" which is where it all started really. Main synopsis always seems to be - Kiddies end up in Narnia - Someone (Witch/human/other) has been playing merry hell and mucking everything up. Kiddies grow up fast, solve the problem, sort out the merry hell - Aslan appears - everyone wonders where the hell he was when he was needed the most - makes everything better then it's time for bed. Boiiing!
Just been reading The Dawn Treader which was the more enjoyable of them really.
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Post by Patrick on Jun 27, 2010 23:34:08 GMT
Oh! and - "Comet in Moominland" - Best road movie going.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 28, 2010 16:10:11 GMT
I like the one where the ape has covered a donkey in a lion skin; I remember a great feeling of wrongness in that (and, frankly, I think Aslan's a git).
I mean to read some Tove Jansson sometime; she seems dam' good.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 16, 2011 14:14:15 GMT
It's Bloom's Day. At exactly this time on this day last year I was boozing in Dublin's Fair City with Dublin's Fair Trubble. I'm thinking of writing a novel about that day.
Need a title . . . . .
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 15:21:53 GMT
The pub crawl.
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Post by jean on Jun 16, 2011 16:44:48 GMT
What about Ulysses?
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 17:07:54 GMT
Same thing, isn't it? |
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Post by trubble on Jun 16, 2011 17:14:59 GMT
What about Yutani's Day?
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Post by trubble on Jun 16, 2011 17:15:36 GMT
It's Bloom's Day. At exactly this time on this day last year I was boozing in Dublin's Fair City with Dublin's Fair Trubble. I'm thinking of writing a novel about that day. Need a title . . . . .  Hello, hello. Happy !st Anniversary.  |
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Post by trubble on Jun 16, 2011 17:23:32 GMT
Peter White was also in town this time last year, but he didn't see us. Blind Date with Bloomsday - Jolly jolly good programme where Peter White talks to people in Dublin on Bloomsday. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b011tynw - recommended. The man with such colourful phrasing as ''shite and onions'' is Senator David Norris, now in the running to become the next Irish President. Can you imagine.... hello and how d'you do, yer majestay, and fuck me but you are very welcome to Ireland, shite-and-onions. I think I am voting for him. |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 16, 2011 18:20:09 GMT
That's exactly how I remember Bloomsday 2010! Apart from the naan incident. |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 16, 2011 18:32:37 GMT
I was thinking Nostromo. Or possibly Sulaco.There'll be points for the allusion. What do points mean? . . . . . |
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Post by trubble on Jun 16, 2011 18:43:31 GMT
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