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Aw, give us another chance. Had I known how you feel, I would have made an effort to follow your posts and give you some response. I say "aw, give us another chance", which reminds me of a joke I heard from a 65 year old heart transplant patient (perhaps a Richird Pryor joke): A man...

SFG75 directed me to this excellent site on Dostoevsky: http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/yabbse/index.php The forum admin made some recommendations on critics of Dostoevsky one of which was Mikhail Bakhtin so, I decided to do some searching. Wikipedia is a fine resource...

A professor of Russian once told me, "There is no such thing as a stupid question, because if it is a question in your mind, then it is a legitimate question. There are only stupid answers." I will see if I can find more info for you with a google search. I did visit http://writers.net a...

Dialogue with Ladybug - Part 4 (final) An analysis of the Arabic language of the Qu’ran reveals many foreign borrowed words from other languages, and abnormalities of grammar, which casts doubts that Arabic is the language which a God chooses as a vehicle for divine revelation. and... you...

Dialogue with Ladybug - Part 3 There is yet another important motif we can see in the Samuel stories... namely,... HUMAN COOPERATION.. with the divine will.... that in the Bible, God always calls first, beckons, but that it is ESSENTIAL for the human to consent with free will and cooperate...

Dialogue with Ladybug - Part 2 Ladybug and I began by discussing the stereotypes and jokes about lawyers, and how Ernie the Attorney seems like such a wonderful person who does not fit the lawyer stereotype. We then begin to discuss the stereotypes of doctors in Iran and USA, since she is...

Dialogue with Ladybug - Part 1 I mentioned in this thread that I would post some things about my Internet “pen pal” Ladybug, who is a medical student in Tehran. She is currently reading a copy of Azar Nafisis “Reading Lolita In Tehran” which was smuggled into the country for her by a friend...

"Call me Jonah." These are the first three words of "The Cat's Cradle" by Vonnegut. Think of the potential for intertextual dialogue between Moby Dick, The Book of Jonah, and possibly the Qu'ran (Ishmael). http://pithekos.net/writing/bibliotheca/chapter1.html (quote) The idea of...

It is not wrong to want to be Ernie the Attorney! Woody Allen said, "My one regret in life is that I was not someone else."

And look! Ernie likes books: Four books I really love: * The Catcher in the Rye * The Lazlo Letters * Look Homeward Angel * The Path Between the Seas I just sent him an e-mail to express my admiration. Perhaps he will join TBF! Why do I feel like Dave Letterman...

Ernie recommends THIS blog, which looks like a really good read http://gladwell.typepad.com/ I am rapidly approaching my goal of becoming Ernie the Attorney and achieving true happiness. A Zen master said to the hotdog vendor: "Make me one with everything." If happiness means...

What is happiness? Perhaps, happiness is being Ernie the Attorney: http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ I found this while searching for "What is Happiness" I searched on "Is happiness normal" but got very few hits. Ernie is a real person in New Orleans, a real attorney. His blog...

Childhood - part 2 of 2 There was something erotic in my childish anticipations. I was certain that I might possibly glimpse a girl undressing in the bushes, or naked upon horseback. I was confused by the term "bridle path." I thought people were saying "bridal path." I did not really...

Childhood - part 1 Childhood I was born in New York City in Women’s Lying-In Hospital in February, 1949. As Snoopy would write, years later, seated upon his dog-house, “It was a dark and stormy night” (dogs do not often suffer from sleeplessness.) I had the good fortune to be born smack...

If my mom were Azar Nafisi, I could post here and not be off-topic, but since she was not Azar Nafisi, I shall direct you to this short story, "The Noonday Siren" which is a very literal account of my life with her when I was age 4 and 5 http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=7478...

It helps me, in understanding Nafisi's book, and Iran, to have a daily long conversations with a young woman in Tehran, Ladybug. She is so brilliant. Of course she speaks Farsi, but she is also totally fluent in French and English. I mentioned something rather obscure about Staretz...

Suddenly, I am remembering so many other interesting things about conversations with Ladybug, and also with a male engineer in Tehran that I knew on the Internet 5 years ago. The engineer was interested in Hinduism, and regularly visited Yoga centers in Tehran. Yoga is treated as a form of...

I have read both Azar Nafisi's book and also "Bookseller of Kabul." My daily Internet pen pal is a 28 yr old woman medical student in Tehran, Iran. She had someone smuggle the book into Iran, since it is banned (for obvious reasons). One part that really struck me was how, when the girls...

I am illustrating how the "Left Behind" series may be viewed as a conspiracy on the part of the author and his supporters. How does that digress from the topic? I think all my posts have been right on topic, in that they deal with the broader theological context of the "story." I don't...

Very few people understand the precise meaning of the term "assault and battery." If I run up to a stranger in the street, and start yelling and screaming to the top of my lungs, shaking my fist, and saying "I disapprove of you and if you do not mend your ways you shall be very sorry (forgive...