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Grey_Wolf · 10-10-2004, 06:37 AM

There is this extremely funny sequence in the Herman Lindquist causerie which I'm currently reading:

He and his family is at a french aquaintence's house and they hear a cat meawing from somewhere and finally locate the origin of the sound which is a closed box in which the cat has saught refuge during the last bustling minute of his over-active owner's preparations for the visit of Lindquists.
Anyway they open the box and the cat shoots out of it like a rocket but is finally caught by the owner who tries to sooth it's nerves. Then she remembers that she has forgotten to spray the cat with anti-bug medicine and asks Herman to go and get it from the Medicine cupboard. Accidently he instead takes the anti-cat spray (which is used to scare off the cat from scratching furniture) and the owner doesn't read the label either and sprays the cat wÃ*th it and the cat goes into convulsions. Finally they read the label and understands that the cat is violently trying to get away from itself.
They phone a vetrinarian he suggests that they bathe the cat which isn't easy to do to a cat which is already frantic. They succceed with a collective effort to rid the cat of the spray.

At next visit of the Lindquists the cat is keeping it's distance from Herman.

Beren3000 · 10-10-2004, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Elvengirl

Frankenstein....awesome book so far!

It's a great book, alright! Let me know what you think when you finish it.

inked · 10-15-2004, 03:29 PM

Re-reading Harry Potter for data collection, but keep getting drawn into the story! This is a fun mode to read in as the storyline is known and I can backpedal to make connections I missed in the prior readings!

trolls' bane · 10-15-2004, 08:30 PM

I'm now reading "The Invisible Man" by HG Wells. Great book so far.

Fewin Greenleaf · 10-18-2004, 09:23 AM

right now i'm reading "International Law and World Politics" by Justice Edgardo Paras.

Valaru · 10-18-2004, 01:15 PM

Currently reading:

Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire

The Order War

When Will You Rage (white wolf werewolf the apocolypse short stories)

and Flight of the old dog

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 10-18-2004, 11:26 PM

I'm reading Macbeth by Shakespeare and doing a 67 page study guide on it. I'm also re-reading The Lord of the Rings.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 10-19-2004, 05:51 AM

i am reading The Silmarillion,
it is by someone called JRR Tolkien,
you might have heard of him ... ?

Linaewen · 10-19-2004, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

I'm reading Macbeth by Shakespeare and doing a 67 page study guide on it.

How do you find it? Do you like Shakespeare? We're analysing it for English. I think it's not bad.

***Earniel*** · 10-19-2004, 04:22 PM

Just finished 'Symbols of the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs' and now just starting in 'Meditations on Middle-earth'. Whaa, already jealous on the beautiful pencil art.

PippinTook · 10-19-2004, 08:33 PM

*is re-reading the trilogy...again* Can't ever read that one too many times

but I'm going to buy the first EarthSea book tomorrow and start it once I'm finished with lotr.

trolls' bane · 10-19-2004, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by PippinTook

*is re-reading the trilogy...again* Can't ever read that one too many times

but I'm going to buy the first EarthSea book tomorrow and start it once I'm finished with lotr.

A Wizard of Earthsea? I just found a thread about that. I think a guest was veiwing it. I love that book! It's well worth it.

Falagar · 10-20-2004, 05:18 AM

Started the Letters of Tolkien not long ago, one of the most interesting reads I've had in a long time.

Millane · 10-20-2004, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Linaewen

How do you find it? Do you like Shakespeare? We're analysing it for English. I think it's not bad.

when did you study it lin? i remember i studied it before i dropped English but that was early on in the year. Im currenty studying Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, one of his plays that i actually enjoy, having been forced to study numerous Shakespeare plays over the past 4 years (in both english and lit) i get fed up with him, but Measure for Measure and Hamlet ive both enjoyed a lot.
Also studying some poetry by Gwen Harwood who can be great, and other times downright confusing (damn you Night and Dreams

)
our team rocked out in our end of year quiz today, The Brotherhood without Banners was behind to a bunch of sluts but we came through in a fantasy round that we made the teacher put on and beat them good

want to read Game but my friend still has it

Linaewen · 10-20-2004, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Millane

when did you study it lin? i remember i studied it before i dropped English but that was early on in the year.

We're currently studying, actually. It's not too bad; today we did these role plays in class using contemporary English with hilarious results. I think I'm just getting a bit sick of tragedies- the other 3 books we studied this year (The Great Gatsby, Medea, First they Killled my Father) are so sad. Can't wait to read Girl with a Pearl Earring next year, though. Which lit books are you studying?

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 10-20-2004, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Linaewen

How do you find it? Do you like Shakespeare? We're analysing it for English. I think it's not bad.

I find it quite interesting, actually. Yes, I like Shakespeare and his works. Besides Macbeth I've also read The Merchant of Venice. Oh, and finished reading Macbeth today.

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Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

i am reading The Silmarillion,
it is by someone called JRR Tolkien,
you might have heard of him ... ?

Tolkien? Now where have I heard that name before...

Telcontar_Dunedain · 10-20-2004, 04:55 PM

Not sure. Have you any referneces.

trolls' bane · 10-20-2004, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

I find it quite interesting, actually. Yes, I like Shakespeare and his works. Besides Macbeth I've also read The Merchant of Venice. Oh, and finished reading Macbeth today.

Tolkien? Now where have I heard that name before...

Probably from a popup or something. Or some remote website, or perhaps a movie?
Taylor ruined my book, so now he has to die

!

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 10-20-2004, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Probably from a popup or something. Or some remote website, or perhaps a movie?

A movie? I think it was from that. Now what was the name of it?

Thain Peregrin Took I · 10-20-2004, 08:48 PM

Right now I'm reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and I'm re-reading The Lord of the Rings.

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

Tolkien? Now where have I heard that name before...

Hmm... the name Tolkien sounds oddly familar...

10-10-2004, 06:37 AM	#1601
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	There is this extremely funny sequence in the Herman Lindquist causerie which I'm currently reading: He and his family is at a french aquaintence's house and they hear a cat meawing from somewhere and finally locate the origin of the sound which is a closed box in which the cat has saught refuge during the last bustling minute of his over-active owner's preparations for the visit of Lindquists. Anyway they open the box and the cat shoots out of it like a rocket but is finally caught by the owner who tries to sooth it's nerves. Then she remembers that she has forgotten to spray the cat with anti-bug medicine and asks Herman to go and get it from the Medicine cupboard. Accidently he instead takes the anti-cat spray (which is used to scare off the cat from scratching furniture) and the owner doesn't read the label either and sprays the cat wÃth it and the cat goes into convulsions. Finally they read the label and understands that the cat is violently trying to get away from itself. They phone a vetrinarian he suggests that they bathe the cat which isn't easy to do to a cat which is already frantic. They succceed with a collective effort to rid the cat of the spray. At next visit of the Lindquists the cat is keeping it's distance from Herman. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 10-10-2004 at 06:43 AM.*

10-15-2004, 03:29 PM	#1603
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Re-reading Harry Potter for data collection, but keep getting drawn into the story! This is a fun mode to read in as the storyline is known and I can backpedal to make connections I missed in the prior readings! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

10-15-2004, 08:30 PM	#1604
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	I'm now reading "The Invisible Man" by HG Wells. Great book so far. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

10-18-2004, 09:23 AM	#1605
Fewin Greenleaf Enting Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 56	right now i'm reading "International Law and World Politics" by Justice Edgardo Paras. __________________ mrs greenleaf

10-18-2004, 11:26 PM	#1607
Meriadoc Brandybuck Magnificent Master of Buckland Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Buckland, U.S.A. Posts: 1,138	I'm reading Macbeth by Shakespeare and doing a 67 page study guide on it. I'm also re-reading The Lord of the Rings. __________________ But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say to much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. -Meriadoc Brandybuck Is there anything I can do that wouldn't inconvenience me?.-Adrian Monk Hogan: What's a definate factor that we can count on? Newkirk: We don't know what we're doing. Do you wanna split a pineapple? -Shawn Spencer

10-18-2004, 01:15 PM	#1606
Valaru Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 25	Currently reading: Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire The Order War When Will You Rage (white wolf werewolf the apocolypse short stories) and Flight of the old dog

10-19-2004, 05:51 AM	#1608
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	i am reading The Silmarillion, it is by someone called JRR Tolkien, you might have heard of him ... ?

10-19-2004, 04:22 PM	#1610
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Just finished 'Symbols of the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs' and now just starting in 'Meditations on Middle-earth'. Whaa, already jealous on the beautiful pencil art. __________________ We are not things.

10-19-2004, 08:33 PM	#1611
PippinTook The Infamous Tea Hobbit Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Riding my Attack Llama, CORY! Posts: 1,162	is re-reading the trilogy...again Can't ever read that one too many times but I'm going to buy the first EarthSea book tomorrow and start it once I'm finished with lotr. __________________ http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/shanakdakhete/svbf.gif If I can stop one heart from aching, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd Never can quite understand The worth of a soul and the change that is wrought By the touch of the Master's hand. Though she be but little, she is fierce! -MSND

10-20-2004, 05:18 AM	#1613
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Started the Letters of Tolkien not long ago, one of the most interesting reads I've had in a long time. __________________ FÃ«anor - Innocence incarnated Still, AikanÃ¡ro 'till the Last battle.

10-20-2004, 04:55 PM	#1617
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	Not sure. Have you any referneces. __________________ Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230

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