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Well educated? Not that I know of. He learned literature by being a printer's devil. Twain grew up poor in a small town on the Mississippi. The southern characters he "invented" were part of his boyhood. Any money he had he earned himself and any strange jobs he took to earn that money...

I am a member of two different book groups, and choosing the right books to discuss is important to the success of the groups. The books can't be too easy or too difficult or too long or too obscure or too obvious.... Two methods have worked. One approach is to rotate the job of discussion...

Thank you for clearing that up. I'll keep it in mind.

You protest too much. Some of us don't like ad hominen attacks which have nothing to do with the subject. If we aren't impressed by your Isaac Newton story, you accuse us of hating Persians. How about this? Some Persians are smart and some Persians are dumb. Some Persians lie and some...

The way I read this, Helgi "couldn't be more qualified" than he already is. So if he is not sufficiently qualified now, future enhancement of his qualifications is not possible.

Thanks for reminding us of Madame Bovary. We can also consider Anna Karenina. I think there is another side to this. In a novel with the basic plot of a bored wife who finds herself - or the meaning of her life - in an affair, the point may not be the affair, but the woman's lack of...

Maybe the pen clicking is like an itch and the reaction to it is like a desire to scratch. No itch, no desire to scratch. But without it, something is now missing from life, that certain extra irritation that lets you know you're alive.

In response to an earlier post, I don't think Orson Welles did a GWTW movie. He did Jane Eyre, a version which turned out to be about Heathcliff (played by Orson) and not Jane.

He was probably out fencing his graphic gains.

Charlotte Bronte - or E. B. White Can't imagine either as a "pal" but I would love to meet them, hear them talk. Good writers and people of substance, with interesting experiences in life: Bronte on the moors and in that school in Brussels, White with his farm on the Maine coast.

Harry Potter. Or Kipling, Stalky and Co., but I found it unreadable.

I enjoyed the Rabbit series very much. There are 4, not 2 as your jacket picture shows. They came out 8 or 10 years apart and each one reflects the time in Rabbit's life and American life. Yes, wordy in places, but socially acute. Not fantasy like (some of?) the other series, but lots of sex...

This is not a small issue. If we can make people happy chemically, why bother to change any of the conditions - starvation, disease, loss of loved ones - which might otherwise make them unhappy.

Why is everyone picking on McD? When you travel, you know that they have reliably clean rest rooms. And no one gives you the hard eye when you stop to use one of them. I don't eat their hamburgers but have a secret liking for chicken mcnuggets - with honey mustard sauce.

It's a good list. I have read: The Great Gatsby 1984 The Grapes of Wrath Animal Farm Brave New World (R) Invisible Man To Kill a Mockingbird Beloved The Age of Innocence A Farewell to Arms The Good Earth The World According to Garp Fahrenheit 451 The Handmaid's Tale All the...

The Wizard of Oz. I loved all the Oz books as a child, but I think the movie is better than the book, probably because they didn't translate the book, but created a musical based on it.

60%. I'm retired, which is not a bad place to be, especially since we have paid off our mortgage. How can you do that? Easy - buy the house 30 years ago.

Satisfaction? Contentment? Pleasure? Joy? Bliss? Ecstasy? I'm not sure whether by happiness we mean some or all of these, but whatever we mean I can't envision being happy all the time. As someone has already sad, how would you know you were happy if that was your continuous...

Apologies to Stewart. I now have access and feel fully mature.

I went through the routine and asked for access. I got no answer and no access.