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My library is too cheap to get it and I am too cheap to buy it. I have all these books to read and I don't feel like reading. I must be sick. Virginia pay me no mind. I like to grouse. Welcome aboard.
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Hmmmm maybe. (Goofy smile on face)Hi Michelle! Welcome .
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Also, it's probably not a cover-to-cover read, but a dipper. Easy to discuss.
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It's 41% off at amazon and is bound to make you more persuasive both in writing and speaking (to hubby, perhaps, when you need a certain something like, say, a pound of twenties?)....
I know but I vowed not to buy any more books until I have my stacks of twenties reduced. (books) I am sorely tempted though. I keep looking and drooling.
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Newengland wrote: "You mean Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric, Michelle? After a delay, my on-line order has cleared and I should be receiving the book this week.Welcome aboard!"
I ordered the book and I ordered The Way We Live Now.
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And Trollope, too? I've never read a Trollope and I have zero inclination. For some reason, he strikes me as coming from the Miss Henry James School of Writing, or that British Bunch I Avoid (Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, and so forth). Polite society is too much for me, I guess.
Do you realize that this will be the biggest read-along ever at L&G? Three of us! (If Michelle's good on her threat, that is.)
I look forward to that. And to using synecdoche. And anaphora. And so forth....
Crap! Where did I put that dictionary?
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I suppose it would be polite to introduce myself rather than making for and hiding out in a distant corner, as is my usual tactic in large groups. I'm a retired former several things, including in my early years a teacher of high school English, mathematics, music, religion, and philosophy (it was a small private school for which my education at St. John's College (Annapolis) prepared me superbly). After a decade of teaching I meandered through several other professions, including financial management in the education, health care, and corporate worlds, consulting, and for the last 15 years before I retired, practicing law in a small town. I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest accessible only by ferry, airplane, or private boat (well, I suppose one could swim to it, but I don't recommend it). My two daughters and their families live next to us -- we turned the family home over to them when we built our retirement home on the same property -- so I now spend a lot of time enjoying four grandchildren, two three year olds and two infants, who my wife babysits while their parents area at work.
My reading interests are primarily in the classics and in non-fiction; I read very little post-WWII fiction with the exception of the occasional mystery (though even there I prefer the classical mystery writers, particularly Sayers, Tey, Stout, Allingham, and Marsh). I'm the founder and a moderator of the Classics and the Western Canon group here on Goodreads.
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I noticed in the other thread that you have a copy of ENGLISH CLASSICAL RHETORIC for the group discussion and are ready to go. Great to have you aboard! I'm getting a little nervous about my copy, however. I ordered it from B&N only because I had a gift certificate and its discount matched amazon's, but the service has been seriously wanting.
First they said they would be delayed in shipping it, then they said they didn't have it (!), and finally they said it shipped last Friday or so. Every day I come home from school, however, and still no book.
So I'm hoping I even have the book to START the discussion as scheduled on the 12th. If not, I'll have to nudge it back a few days.
Stay tuned... and welcome to the group.
Hi, Everyman, and welcome to L&G. Several things occur to me to ask you, none of which is my business. Did you master Latin well enough to read it easily? Do you fly a seaplane? Did you find law as interesting as English literature? Did you enjoy reading cases in Torts? The idea of living in an isolated place inaccessible by road appeals to me more than I can express. I think that must be wonderful!
Everyman , glad you decided to give us a look see. NE mine should be here by Friday I hope. Amazon said they shipped it. The other book I ordered is being sent later.
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M wrote: "Hi, Everyman, and welcome to L&G. Several things occur to me to ask you, none of which is my business. Did you master Latin well enough to read it easily? Do you fly a seaplane? Did you find law as..."Ah -- I detect the local Elephant's Child.*
By the time I went to St. John's, the one year each of Latin, Greek, French, and German had been changedto two years each of Greek and French, so no Latin. I did do two years of Latin in high school, but I barely scraped through that and forgot most of it within a week after the end of class.
No, I don't fly a seaplane or any sort of plane (except the kind you wind up the rubber band on to fly with your three year old grandchild. Those I'm exert at flying.)
I found some of law excruciatingly boring -- Administrative Law, Tax Law, UCC to name a few -- but I loved trial work. Nothing gets the intellectual juices flowing like cross-examining a hostile witness or making a closing argument to the judge or jury when so much hangs in the balance for your client who just has to sit there while you get to have all the fun. But Torts weren't my favorite -- I did do some torts cases, but mostly I did criminal and family law. As to whether it was more interesting than English Literature, I love them both but in very different ways, so can't really rank them as to a favorite.
Inaccessibility has its virtues, but also its challenges. We get lots of people who, like you, think it would be wonderful, but by this time of year, with months of gloom and only 8 or 9 hours of visible light and very little sunshine and cooped up on the rock with very little entertainment (one movie theater and a few bars), it doesn't look so appealing. A lot of people come, and a lot of people go, and there aren't that many who, like our family, have been here for generations.
*In the event that there may be some young folks here who weren't brought up on Kipling's Just So Stories, the reference to the Elephant's Child can be found here:
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/...
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Debbie's comment takes me back to the carefree days of school. My rear end still remembers Mrs. Hart's paddle.Everyman, how I escaped what few crocodiles I encountered is a mystery to me. Mostly, they took the form of women who wanted me to make some sort of ridiculous commitment.
Thankyou for providing the link, Everyman. I was not familiar with that story. It struck me (no pun intended), that there was rather a lot of spanking in that story. Such a story would probably not be considered suitable for children these days.
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Sassy cat here. I am always the one pushing buttons. The other day I rang the alarm bell in the elevator to see what would happen. Bad Kitty! Oh I was at the doctor's office which made it interesting.
Nah eye doctor. I couldn't see what I was doing. hee hee
Naughty Kitty! Always up to mischief! :D
Bravo! We now have 1111 members. And the name of no. 1111?....Bravo! The person who joined just before him was Nowhereman. Nowhereman and Bravo, how about coming along and introducing yourselves. Then we could have a conversation between Everyman and Nowhereman and if that conversation was scintillating we could all say Bravo!...and something tells me I'd better go and cook dinner and stop rambling on...
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Last night I cooked Sukiyaki. Tonight we'll be having Barramundi and salad. Cooking for one? Try this. Take one large potato. Pierce the skin with a fork then microwave the potato for 5 minutes. (This time is approximate ..depends on microwave and potato size).Meanwhile, cut one slice of low-fat cheese and dice several thin slices of ham. Place some lettuce and sliced tomato on your plate. When potato is cooked, slice it almost in half and place cheese slice inside until cheese softens. Then mix diced ham into the cheesy potato and top with cracked pepper. 5 minute dinner for one! Less trouble than trying to read the instructions on the overprocessed food.
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Anyway, thanks for that quick recipe idea, Jan. Not a potato in the house (I'm not a starch guy), but the recipe's nice and all. You get my attention anytime you say "cheese."
M wrote: "What's for dinner?"Grilled lamb patties with mint jelly, baked potatoes, and broccoli. Yum!
Jan wrote: "cooking for one? Try this. Take one large potato. Pierce the skin with a fork then microwave the potato for 5 minutes. ..."Add on a few flowerets of frozen broccoli for your veggie.
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Homemade pizza with pepperoni. Raw fennel.
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