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 Post subject: suggested readingPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:57 am 
So I was going to buy a book for Eisley and my wife thought I was nuts (how much fandom is too much?) so I decided not to. Plus I don't think the thugs that run the door at St. Andrews would like it if I brought a book in. I'll still recommend said book: Judevine by David Budbill It's the story of people in poetry. I don't know how else to review it but to say that it's unlike any poetry or story I've ever read and it is a great example of how to capture entire personalities in short phrases. You should be able to snag it at your local library or for a couple bucks on amazon....where you can also read the first 8 pages... http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1890132225/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-1332440-7 594507#reader-page _________________ hi, my name is dan, a librariman i am anyone can play guitar... |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:11 am
...Drunkedly dancing to a rhythmic over-richified sputtering chainsaw. I do that! And....I live in a bread van by the river! |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:40 am
I've just started reading 'Will of the World-How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare' (Stephen Greenblatt) and I ran across something really interesting. Around 1598 (early in Shakespeare's career) a scribe named Adam Dyrmonth got bored at work. He started doodling and scribbling. He wrote "William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare" ---over and over again. He also wrote remembered quotations from some plays. So, he was a fan. Just like today's fans. Goofing off at work, thinking of better things-things that made him happy and took him to a better place in his head. I'm really not sure why this fascinated me, but it did. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:15 pm
Noodler wrote: I've just started reading 'Will of the World-How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare' (Stephen Greenblatt) and I ran across something really interesting.
Around 1598 (early in Shakespeare's career) a scribe named Adam Dyrmonth got bored at work. He started doodling and scribbling. He wrote "William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare" ---over and over again. He also wrote remembered quotations from some plays. So, he was a fan. Just like today's fans. Goofing off at work, thinking of better things-things that made him happy and took him to a better place in his head. I'm really not sure why this fascinated me, but it did. That's very very interesting. I'll have to write the name of the book down so I can check it out later. ...because usually when you think of these times and people in the past you place them so far away from yourself (at least I do). You don't usually consider that they had the same types of feelings and expereinces that you have now..just in ways altered to fit the realities of their time. _________________ -Brooke |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:40 am
Noodler wrote: I've just started reading 'Will of the World-How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare' (Stephen Greenblatt) and I ran across something really interesting.
Around 1598 (early in Shakespeare's career) a scribe named Adam Dyrmonth got bored at work. He started doodling and scribbling. He wrote "William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare" ---over and over again. He also wrote remembered quotations from some plays. So, he was a fan. Just like today's fans. Goofing off at work, thinking of better things-things that made him happy and took him to a better place in his head. I'm really not sure why this fascinated me, but it did. wow...that is really interesting. Stuff like that can occupy my thoughts for hours...the absurdity of reality I guess...cool. I wonder if Shakespeare would've had his own online forum? _________________ hi, my name is dan, a librariman i am anyone can play guitar... |
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