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The Graceful Antics of Language

So how are all of you peoples doing today? Excellent. Me, I'm doing fine, although a bit tired at the moment. The flood crisis is pretty much over, (yay!) and now all there is to worry about is the awful stink that h…
The Tangle of My Mind

Well, it's been some time since my last, rather lengthy post, but I have been enjoying myself away from the internet. Thursday I went to a local cafe (aptly named The Rolling Pin) to meet some friends and discovered th…
The Art and Joy of Words

Just as a change of pace, I thought I'd post a few excerpts from some works of fiction. I tried to post yesterday, but the internet declared war against me. Today is amnesty day... The conclusion of Middlemarch, b…
...To Madness Near Allied...

Wow. This has been a strange weekend. Friday I spent an hour searching through my old high school's office for laminating sheets, and then [mysteriously] found the master key and was able to search through the new admi…
Splashes of Beauty

Well, as I'm enjoying quite a lot of poetry right now, I thought I'd post some here. This may be a bit too much for one post, but they're shortish and quite beautiful (I think). There's no common theme between the four…
Well, I'm glad that many of you found my last post to be inspiring; the truth is, I stayed up late the night before watching a PBS special on the subject and simply felt that I needed to say something about it on xanga.…
Yes, I know- Its been a while since I've posted. My friend Becca came to visit from Houston, and the house was filled with much merriment and randomness... In the ten days Becca stayed, we watched: Pursuit of Happyn…
"Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing-up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through--and very good lists they were-…
Before last summer, I had never heard of forgotten Victorian genius Elizabeth Gaskell. Then my best friend (xanga.com/britlitlover)'s mother told about this new author she had discovered, and I read the small, cozy, cha…
Recently I have been more interested in English poetry than usual, mainly because I have finally realized that the English didn't JUST write Romantic and Modern poetry, but neo-classical and Renaissance stuff as well. T…