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Khazar-khum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "The Short Happy Life of > Francis Macomber" rocks. Well, on your recommendation, K-K, I've just read that (. Yes, it wasn't bad at all!by Hermione - Paper Lens
Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > magical > realism.. even in translation it reads well. Oh ... I had to read "Pedro Paramo" and "El Lano en LLamas" in my final year ... I just couldn't be doing with all that interacting with ghosts and spirits ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
, Peski! I've recently been reading my husband's collection of Tom Sharpe novels. "Indecent Exposure", with its send-up of Dornford Yates, has to be one of the funniest things I've ever read (apart from "Riotous Assembly", which made me hysterical with laughter ... )by Hermione - Paper Lens
Thank you very much indeed for all the work involved in the above post, Damian. Unfortunately, "THE TOMB THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME" is rather long to post in its entirety. As you say, it can be accessed via the link that you kindly posted, although, regrettably, the formatting makes it rather difficult to read. (If anyone finds it too problematic, please PM me).by Hermione - Ancient History
Roxana Cooper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Believe it or not my Grandfather tried to read > 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' to me when > I was about eight. It's good to know that it > wasn't just my youth that made the novel both > illegible and boring. Well, I think it's nice that your grandfather thoughby Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I once read four pages of Finnegan's Wake because > I had to for school. Deciphering it was fun for > about five minutes, but after that, why would > anyone want to read it? Because Joyce's sentences are packed with obscure allusions and puns in dozens of different languages, it remains imposby Hermione - Paper Lens
Ritva Kurittu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Erm... what is the "news" about this? After all, > it is due to the Vikings Russia is called Russia, > eh? Yes, but that is associated with the movement of Vikings out of Norway. The point here is that the ancestors of this "Norwegian" woman apparently came from the Black Sea (and nby Hermione - Ancient History
Pacal Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 5, Silas Marner. George Eliot manages to pack many > thousands of pages of boredom into less than 250 > pages. (Is this the one with the little girl called Effie, an orphan who's brought up by Silas, and whose golden curls remind him of gold coins ... ??) Well, I liked it when I was about seventeen ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
I regret I don't know, Roxana ...by Hermione - Ancient History
The bones of one of the women found in one of Norway's most famous Viking graves suggest her ancestors came from the area around the Black Sea.by Hermione - Ancient History
If anyone wants to continue discussing this question, could they start a new topic on the History board, and link back to Ritva's opening post on this board? Thanks.by Hermione - Humanities
"Yeah, we started by sticking the pointy bit in ... " I wonder how that would have been expressed in hieroglyphs??by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Try reading it backwards, Ritva ... or should I say Avtir ...by Hermione - Laboratory
Lirpa Loof is on the prowl once again, Ritva ...by Hermione - Laboratory
American archaeologists were stunned as news broke today that a high-school student with a cameraphone caught Bigfoot in the act of planting artifacts at Burns Mound.by Hermione - Laboratory
Calm down, please, everyone. Now.by Hermione - Ancient History
Ronald Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe the simple fact that the figure was found by > the dozens indicates that it became divine. Admittedly, I have seen this argument elsewhere, although I continue to wonder whether the existence of multiple figurines would necessarily indicate the existence of the concept of divinity or deity. > The faby Hermione - Ancient History
Khazar-khum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Considering that they probably got pregnant at 13 > or so, they'd age pretty faSt. The figurines don't look to me as if they represent pregnant, prematurely aged Neolithic 13-year-olds, though ... Another way to look > at it: my niece, who had 2 kids by the age of 16, > looks far oldby Hermione - Ancient History
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here's a question: Do soothsayers only say sooth > or do they sometimes say forsooth? Just what is > sooth exactly, anyway? Can you say? I daresay that soothsayers may be naysayers ... but 'tis surely soothing to know that sooth is truth, forsooth ... and let us not forget Keats' "jellby Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Verily, I would say a thing -- and this is it: my > condolences! Nay, forsooth, I have a quest to fulfil, and this is it:by Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > what have you got that beats > Martha Kent's sewing? Mrs. Brown darning William's socks!by Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The one with Robert Wagner?? Synchronicity! Certainly was! I only caught a passing glimpse ... but somehow I suspect that, in this case, a passing glimpse was more than enough ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
I just went into the sitting-room, to find my husband watching no less a cinematic masterpiece than ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
Allan Shumaker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > to me, they > represent a pregnant woman rather than just an > obese woman. Many of the Venus sculptures seem to > represent pregnant women. The problem is, though, that it's difficult to tell if they are pregnant; and, even if they were, being that shape isn't necessarily the most effecby Hermione - Ancient History
Ronald Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe the figurines actually represented a > pregnant women, who in the course of time, was > 'standardized' to a fertility-goddess/fetisj ? The first part of your suggestion is certainly interesting ... My medical friend said that, quite frankly, she was so overweight that it would be impossiblby Hermione - Ancient History
Enki, The previous thread with Katherine's discussions of "rabbi" and "rebbe" is to be found here.by Hermione - Ancient History
Martin Stower Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here you may see him in one of the more > significant of his earlier roles: Apparently, the little girl pictured there - Joan Dowling - later became his wife, and then committed suicide because of his philandering.by Hermione - Paper Lens
Ronald Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because ALL the figurines apparantly show > full-figured women, couldn't it be possible they > represent a particular goddess ? I can't imagine > ALL the women 15.000 years ago were full-figured. Despite what the article says, we don't know who was responsible for carving the figurines,by Hermione - Ancient History
Several requests to tone things down appear to have gone unheeded.by Hermione - Humanities