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  • Writing Activities Re: Blazing minds!

    Once a year the light of dawn breaks before the moon has gone - and the two lights mingle like a jewel on the horizon. They call it the Tear ...

    May 4, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    How many can I have? --Not that I've seen either. Makes it hard to have a view . Wait...serious question? About pikemen? -Tov --- So - what if the world ...

    May 3, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    (deadpan ) ...Hate? -Tov --- If threatened - what's your first instinct? (Wince? Run? Hit back without a thought?...)

    May 3, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: How fast can you type?

    Is this really a writing activity? ^_~ ...Oh well, amusing all the same. Test: Wonderful Wizard of Oz Gross Speed: 65 WPM Errors: 3 Net Speed: 60 Accuracy: 95% For ...

    May 3, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: How Many Normal People Enjoy Tolstoy?

    I've never read The Brother's Karamozov but I'd like to - assuming I can get my parents to schlep me to the book store. I've read something by Chekov, but ...

    May 2, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: How Many Normal People Enjoy Tolstoy?

    I'm all for Fyodor Dostoyevsky over all other Russians. Solzhenitsyn for me, all day long. Solzhenitsyn - a close second. :wink: But Chekhov's short stories are intriguing - and Aleksander ...

    May 2, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: How Many Normal People Enjoy Tolstoy?

    I loved the complexity, too, and I totally hated that the russians talked french. (But this may have something to do with the fact that I love the russians and ...

    May 2, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: How Many Normal People Enjoy Tolstoy?

    Well, I can't with any veracity claim to be normal, I'm afraid - but writers and storytellers - who can tell? It's a wandering, weird bunch. I have read Tolstoy ...

    May 2, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Jorge Luis Borges - a collection of all his short fiction, translated unfortunately - but my spanish isn't really up to the task of taking on his prose. Lottery of ...

    May 2, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Most Disturbing Books

    1984 by Orwell. I read it when I was 13 or 14...and was unsettled for months. I can think of little more disturbing than a world as controlled and depraved ...

    Apr 29, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Awww, I loved To Kill A Mockingbird! I'm reading A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer. I liked the first two books, A Child Called 'It' and The Lost Boy ...

    Apr 29, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    The Light Beyond the Forest by Rosemary Sutcliff. A retelling of Arthurian legend - and Sutcliff is deft with the style. Though I never cared for her historical books quite ...

    Apr 29, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Ha. ...Don't ask. -Tov --- What is the importance of speaking precisely? Does it really matter as long as you can just 'get the point across'? (Good question for Tov...he ...

    Apr 27, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Easily moved. Or, maybe, a hole in the wall. People miss those. ...did you expect - 'where the heart is'? -Tov --- Do you tend to be the sort who ...

    Apr 27, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    ...you expect someone to tell you? Honest? That would be stupid. You see? Now you know both, right? - Tov --- What is the most grotesque scene/thing you've ever seen?

    Apr 27, 2006


You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan