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The opening of "GR" is much like a GI "Buddy Movie," from WWII. It's actually the sanest life gets in "GR." But by the time you hit "The Zone" you are so caught you can accept anything Pynchon throws at you. Someone please keep reminding me about the 14th. I missed last January's...

A Dalek design! :) But to be serious, should you ever decide to purchase one, you will tell us here in advance? The populace of London should receive fair warning before you start taking to the streets in something motorized again! Irene Wilde

Mr. O., Did you walk with a zombie last night? :) You know what I have to listen to on the way to work now, don't you? :) Irene Wilde

Well, I'm going to be totally uncool and actually endorse a book on that list, perhaps not for our young friend who wants to read sci-fi/fantasy for course credit, but just a general recommendation since many people said they were not familiar with it. "Farewell to Manzanar" is a YA...

I think what has changed most for me is how I read. When I was younger, I devoured books like a fine young carnivore. Now, and especially since my reading time is something I have to make extra efforts to keep, I like to savor books -- lingering over the language and ideas. I may not read as...

Of course I have read Hesse. (What old hippie hasn't?) But Hesse was talking philosophy, and I am being entirely pragmatic and more than a little selfish. It is a long story and for another time. Still, you have left with me some hope. Mr. Burns, to quote Mae West, "Goodness has nothing to...

Oh professor! :) I hope you are wrong! :) When my soul is free of this mortal coil, I do not want to sit rooted like a tree in winter. My life has been rooted like a tree, anchored by responsibilities and obligations. When I have met these, when life has done with me, I want my soul to be...

Nice attempted save, but I know exactly how much older you are than me, and it ain't much, my friend. Off to order my motorized wheel-chair now. Irene Wilde

But if you are elderly that means I'm......NO! You are wrong! :eek: Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! :eek: Must we be closer to 70? Can't we be closer to 50? 60 tops? And who wants to be 17? It was vastly over-rated. But 70??? Irene Wilde 70....like I wasn't depressed enough this...

That "elderly gentleman" stuff is just a clever ruse. And the only animal spotted at Mr. O's was an American tourist asleep on the floor. Shed blonde hairs like a cat, but it was mostly harmless. Irene Wilde

Beats the hell out of me. Tall, dark, devilishly handsome, and you do laundry twice as often as most men I know! :) Irene Wilde

I don't care about heaven and I don't care about hell. I just care about...<*smiles enigmatically and leaves thought unfinished*> Irene Wilde

I have no interest in the timing or circumstances of my death, but I have a near obsession about the hereafter -- there had better be one or I'll be awfully disappointed. As for film deaths, James Cagney going in up in a blaze of glory at the end of "White Heat" is always a satisfying end...

Your English was just fine. :) Irene Wilde

Oh Sweetie, don't worry about your words. I'm from LA, nobody speaks English here! :) According to my UK chums, even I don't speak English. :) I shut my PM-thingy off one day when I was feeling anti-social. But please post here or send me an e-mail to: ihrocks@aol.com Irene Wilde

I'm on ancient rickety old laptop, so I can't play music (one day the magic money fairy will wave her wand and my PC will get mended), however, on the tape deck in the car right now is The Greatest Hits of Billy Oblivion & the DNA Cowboys. I highly recommend their version of "I Walked with a...

So Martin, I hear you are now a SENIOR MODERATOR. You didn't really quit, you were just bucking for a promotion! :) Those same poets were referenced about a million years ago, by Rod Stewart in "Every Picture Tells A Story" a wonderful song he sang before he became pablum. Jewel has a...

Wow ladies! I'm gratified and touched by your responses. We have tried several of the things suggested, but some are new and we will try them, too. We are having mixed success, but the successes help, and the fact that I'm listening to her, taking her concerns seriously, and working with...

Anglenos and Londoners, forever separated by a common language. :) It refers to straightening and smoothing the bed clothes so they are nice and tidy. Now if we could only clearly delineate "snogging" and "dancing" we'd be making real progress in Anglo-American dialogue. Irene Wilde

I was not severe. You are going to damage my reputation as that kindly old woman from Californi-i-ay. :) However, I very much approve of the revisions. Now it reads much more like the trial sequence from "Breaker Morant" (I won't divulge how long it took me to remember the name of that film...