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...OK, this is a rip-off of staffee's thread, but it got me thinking about numbers as well. And while, as a lover of language I feel that math is my arch-enemy, I believe that there is some beauty to be found in it. So, as for my favorite number, it's 19. My least favorite is 9. It has...

Who are the illuminaties? I was talking online with a guy from Germany and he mentioned them to me. I hadn't heard of them before this. Apparently they're some cult that controls the stock market? What's up with this?

WTH is this "swiffer generation" and why are they defined by this product? After all these societal changes since the fifties era of the stay-at-home mom, many women still seem to fill that same role. New moms are "super" because they are busy and they manage to clean fast? Whatever. I...

So far, becoming an editor is what I've been thinking of as a career. Mainly this is because I just love reading literature, and it's mostly the stylistic aspects of writing that really thrill me. What other skills are usually required of an editor? Is the job too competitive to become...

Can anyone post a link to a site that provides some good, scholarly literary criticisms and analyzations? Please don't say sparknotes or monkeynotes or anything along those lines. I need some essays or something like that for The Inferno and for A portrait of the artist as a young man . I'd...

I just wanna know... does anyone else waste time with a neopets account?

I know this subject might be old, but its been on my mind since I woke up this morning. I had a fantasy dream about a guy who knew how to turn me on, very rare indeed. And I've been almost wishing that I could sleep forever and live my life with this person, or at least meet them in real life...

Ephemeral I suffer from the anguish of allowing your second death, The corroding memories of your former being fade; Conscious of your absence, I reminisce on lingering illusions. Though I struggle to prevent you from wasting away, Like the thin and dangling vein of a stem Saving a...

Is Gregor's mother less innocent than she seems? I believe that she is the cause of his death. Do you think it was a suicide?

Please help-Dante and Joyce I need some help. I've got to read The Inferno and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man within 10 days, and i have to make an outline for their comparison/analysis. Can anyone give me some ideas or resources to look at while I read?

hello, I'm new (though that's already implied), and I'd like to have some nice bit of intellectual chat with anyone willing. Or silly chat. Whichever you prefer. :cool: Bring it on.