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Grammatical Nightmares - 3 I have some chorse to do right now, so I must return to this thread periodically, today and tomorrow, to finish my thoughts, but I will attempt as an exercise, to comment on the sentences phrase by phrase and share with you my candid reactions. Younger infants...

Grammatical Nightmares - 2 It is possible for a non-native speaker, or a poorly educated native speaker, to generate an ungrammatical sentence which is perfectly understandable, and needs only minor correction. My college professor of ancient Greek once chuckled and said, "The greatest...

Grammatical nightmares I have volunteered much time over the past 30 years to assist students of English. It is my experience that a non-native speaker may generate a sentence which is perfectly grammatical, but either incomprehensible, or conveying an unintended meaning. When I was...

Ursula LeGuinn The Left Hand of Darkness The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuinn She has written other things which are more fantasy than sci-fi, but I have not read those.

I am happy to repost here what I have gathered so far regarding "The Old Ace in the Hole" if there is some interest and no objection. Then all discussion would take place here. Let me know if that is a good idea. Certainly, it is my desire to contribute to and enrich this site, rather than...

Thanks so much for your reply. Perhaps you might find time to review the study group questions I am compiling for that post at Annie Proulx official site, and make some comments or suggestions. Then perhaps we could post a link to an appropriate thread at TBF and attract some outside interest...

I am posting at the official Annie Proulx site to help compile a list of questions for discussion for a local reading group: http://www.annieproulx.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20 During my searching, I came across the following link which may be of some interest to members here...

This question arises from an essay on Brokeback Mountain written by Annie Proulx, at her official site http://www.annieproulx.com I responded to it as follows. I do think that this is a challenging question for any literature message board. In about Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx writes...

I have been spending a lot of time lately reading and thinking about The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. http://www.annieproulx.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=241 Here are some excerpts of my thoughts: I am so impressed with Brokeback Mountain that I have purchased The Shipping...

http://academic.reed.edu/english/thesis_titles.html Thesis Titles of Recent Graduates of Reed College Samples:

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http://www.numberseventy.co.uk/recommended%20novels.htm Some of you might enjoy browsing through this list, which I discovered while searching on Proulx. Of The Shipping News it says:

Here is ann interesting read I just found while surfing: Umberto Eco & Thomas Pynchon Foucault's Pendulum and Gravity's Rainbow http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/clinton.html

Brokeback Mountain Chat Room Game Here are the questions I have collected so far for the chat room "game". Since they may spoil your enjoyment of the movie, I will post them as spoiler code. So read at your own risk. http://www.freejavachat.com/chat.php?chan=brokeback The above...

Thanks for your kind words. I will also purchase the DVD when it comes out. I would like to see it a few more times, to look for various details which have been discussed, but I feel it would be wasteful to spend so much money on theater tickets. Of course, a DVD will never give the same...

My Experience of Brokeback Mountain A middle aged woman, arduously working her way through night school for some years now, asked me to see Brokeback Mountain and tell her my thoughts and impressions to help her with ideas for an assignment. Had it not been for her request, I might not...

Check this out http://www.ennisjack.com/ The above is a message board exclusively for discussions of Brokeback Mountain, the movie.

Not so much strange, as politically correct. Consider the popular television series, "Seventh Heaven" about a Christian minister and his family. Count how often the word "God" appears in the episodes of numerous seasons. There is one fascinating scene, where the Reverend is recovering from a...

The Jungian Shadow Today is laundry day for me. While doing the wash, I struck up a conversation with an African American man in his 30s whom I sometimes see in the laundry room but whom I barely know. We have had one or two discussions in the past. I started the conversation by saying...

The Inspired Title With our every action and inaction, we risk much. The chips at stake in our gamble are always regret. Better to die trying than try dieing. At least our words can be immortal. The title of the story and movie, “Brokeback Mountain” is brilliantly inspired. It is a...