Michael’s Comments (group member since Mar 07, 2009)

Michael’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Lara wrote: "All you guys who haven't picked up 100 years, please do. You'll be so glad you did. It really is a masterpiece. I've read it three times, once in Spanish and the other times in English, and there a..."

I'll 2nd Lara on this. 100 Years has stuck with me like glue ever since I read it. There is the episode where the village gets insomnia and begins losing their collective memory. When they awake from the disease (fall asleep?) they discover the village is covered in post-it notes; literally everything is labeled so that they don't forget it, with sub-labels explaining the labels, etc. Just one great episode of many many.

As for Delillo; just finally got around to readingWhite Noise last fall. The whole toxic cloud event was great, clearly the best part of the story, but I did detect more than a bit of whining that I couldn't shake, and I am not a huge fan so far.

mm

Maureen wrote: "i too have sent out invitations, and talked us up. i also started an introduction thread where we should all pony up some intel about us for when people we don't know show up.


Anybody seen Hugh The Moderator?

We found a new site for the group just in time for your birthday Mo. So glad we could all make it!
mm

That and we need the guidelines to post somewh..."

HOLD THE PRESSES. This group is now located in CANADA??!! Nobody told me about that part of the deal, eh. ;)

Maureen wrote:
...also i think it may make urls live automatically but not sure...


Definitely need a link to Dewey up top somewhere. Like the new commume Mo. Always like a place before the furniture settles in. Ben might need some support in his newfound position of leadership though. I would suggest a grapefruit theme.

Patty wrote: "oh and mm, i'm expecting you to use all of those in casual conversation at the dorka. "

Lets try:

The ethopoetic slime that has been thrown on Lady Macbeth over the centuries has hardened into an admirable crust.

Limbaugh’s pathopoetic business model needs no tune-up at this late stage of the race.

If 15 minutes of fame is sufficient to drive our prosopopoetic economy, we can only imagine the strength of the antiprosopopoetic urge which drove the makers at Easter Island to their task.

Patty wrote: "http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

they've got prosopopoeia, antiprosopopoeia, ethopoeia, pathopoeia

but nothing that ends with moron, sorry! awesome source for rhetorical terms, though. "

This is my kind of site! The definition of ethopoeia simply boggles:

"The description and portrayal of a character (natural propensities, manners and affections, etc.). A kind of enargia. See the progymnasmata exercise "impersonation".

Makes one just want to run out and find a dictionary to define enargia (assuming, of course, one is on familiar terms with "progymnasmata".

Man this is like finding the valley where they are still speaking a near relative to the ancient greek.

BUT YET, we have still not found another moronic suffix. They are hiding somewhere, I can just feel it.

Thanks for the pointer to this site, Ms. Patty, and for saving my thin-skinned ego from further dimish.

mm

Kerry wrote: "Me too Ben, me too."

Really sorry. :((

Michael wrote: "OK, real question: I've asked this before in Fiction Files v1, Fiction File v2, and now I will ask it again here, now that we have survived our difficult voyage across the cyberocean and the Powers..."

Oh shit, I am really sorry about that. I was just trying to be funny. :(

OK, real question: I've asked this before in Fiction Files v1, Fiction File v2, and now I will ask it again here, now that we have survived our difficult voyage across the cyberocean and the Powers That Be have safely guided us to this new ripe continent.

A) If one uses "onomatopoeia" one can be accused of being "onomatopoetic". Can you think of any other words with a "poeia" suffix which have the same adjectival "poetic" construct?

B) OK, now the real question. If something is an oxymoron, one can claim it to be "oxymoronic". I will pay serious money to hear of other words with the same such "moron" suffix which generate similar "moronic" adjectives!

C) Which brings up the larger question: what, if they exist, are good tools for researching families of similar suffices? Prefix families show themselves alphabetically and are easily found out and do not fall far from the tree. The family lines of suffixed words, on the other hand, seem to hide from the lights of our legitimate etymology, and must necessarily then excite our curiousity.

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Jennifer wrote: "Patty wrote: "it's a diminished form of diminish. :)"

i like it. dimish.

on a similar note i always wished that palindrome was a palindrome. not that i don't like the word, it just woulda b..."

Or that the concept of onomatopoeia sounded that way in your head.

This looks to be real. Brian, did you set us up for this? Man, what I would give for a “A LOVE JOURNAL” personally signed by Leeann. And do you know what Leeann's "PERSONALIZED BOOK MARKS [sic:]" would go for at the next Dorka?

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...

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FOR THE HOT NEW ROMANCE NOVEL: “A PRESCRIPTION FOR LOVE” BY LEEANNE MARIE STEPHENSON

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http://www.lmstephenson.com
Send the answers to stephensonbook@yahoo.com or write them on the GUESTBOOK page of my web site. Include “CONTEST” in the subject line. Winner will be drawn from all the correct answers on December 14, 2008. Winner will be notified via e-mail.

PRIZE: Winner of the contest about “A PRESCRIPTION FOR LOVE” will receive a $50.00 AMAZON GIFT CARD!!!, “A LOVE JOURNAL” personally signed by me, Leeanne Marie Stephenson, MY PERSONALIZED BOOK MARKS, AND A BOX OF HERSHEY’S POT OF GOLD CHOCLATES!!

GOOD LUCK!!

Ben wrote: "i have pfl right now. goodness! i am sending it on to mo next, i believe. unless mo says no. BUT YOU CAN'T SAY NO TO A PRESCRIPTION FOR LOVE!"

Ben and Prescription For Love in the same room. Wowser. I am expecting some serious magic when these two worlds collide.

mm

Cool. Nice to see you all here when I arrived. Mo: thanks so much for making us all feel so comfortable after the trip. Where shall we put our suitcases?

BTW, I voted for bacon.
mm

Hello folks. Good to see you all together elsewhere. Reminds me very much of the great black-out of 2007, and the forced migration then.

Later,.
mm