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I have David Copperfield sitting on my desk but I won't be able to read it for about 4 months...
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I've grabbed my old Smurf comics. The ones Peyo made are really very funny!
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Ha! I loved the smurfs! Do you think they exist in real life? I always suspected my mother was a smurf, or at least descended from smurfs.
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Not until I actually saw some smurfs when I was on holiday in France...
...but I always gathered from the comics Peyo was a misogynic communist...
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MY NEW FAVORITE TOY 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Not until I actually saw some smurfs when I was on holiday in France...
...but I always gathered from the comics Peyo was a misogynic communist... |
oh! I'm convinced the original artist was not a misogynist tho there is only one female smurf. A dear friend of mine who is female and decidedly not
misogynist is convinced by deduction that smurfs reproduce asexually . . . she (my friend) frequently and with great vehemence will go on and on all
day convincing anyone she's right about this. don't get her started!!!!
hahahhahhahhahhahhahhaahhahha!!!!!!
but she would agree with you that he was probably at least heavily socialist
[Edited on 4-9-2006 by punknaynowned]
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Smurfs don't seem to reproduce at all. In the Babysmurf album, Baby is brought by a stork during a blue moon. When Brainy asks Papa Smurf where
babysmurfs come from, the reply is that it is a great mystery.
Have you read the album in which Smurfette is introduced? Gargamel's recipe for a statuette with female character:
A spark of coquetry, a large dose of prejudice, three crocodile tears, the brains from a shrimp, powder from a vampire tongue, one carat of slyness, a
handful of anger, a finger of lie-tissue, hand woven... a large quantity of craving for sweets, a quarter pound of bad faith, a thimble of
unpredictability, a bit of haughtiness, a pint of jealousy, a bit of sentimentality, one part madness and one part cunningness, a lot of flying spirit
and stubbornness, and a large measure of spendthrift.
(The responsibility for this recipe is for the editors of the book Magicae Formulae, Belzebub).
In the story any nasty prejudice on women is dealt with, from untimely headaches, spending ages on putting on make-up, singing badly whilst thinking
she's singing great and unability to tell a joke properly, to endless talking and backseat driving... Ever wondered why the Smurf-dam is pink?
Smurfette's suggestion.
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ouch!!! that's pretty damning I must agree.
you and my friend should talk. I'll see if I can't get her on here.
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Great! Discussing Smurfs!
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bought a dozen books yesterday at a used bookshop.
Travel books of Dickens: Italy and America, The Old Curiosity Shop, 'the uncommercial traveller', a biography of Boccaccio, some faullkner miltie
(hamlet again and Sanctuary the two 25 years apart), Conrad's Heart of Darkness, William Golding's Rites of Passage, some more sailing adventure-type
books (CS Forester, Mutiny On the Bounty), Gunter Grass My Century c 1999, and John Fowles' The Maggot. I read The Magus 16 years ago but I bet
this'll remind me of that.
I haven't been a fan of fiction for five years. I got the urge again. The weather just started to get a little cooler at night. Wonder if these'll
whet my apetite again.
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i have read one work of fiction in about 3 years...Voltaire's Candide. No wait..i also read the last harry pothead book.
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Nice purchases!
Today I bought a Japanese guitar book. It contains a lot of songs in a writing I cannot decipher, and, among others, "nothing else matter". Also I got
a Guide to Learning Hiragana & Katakana, which looks fun, though considering I also still have a Modern Greek course, an Ancient Greek course, an
Arabic course and a few Russian courses lying around I keep my fingers crossed I get to it.
Yesterday I got a nice Dutch youngsters classic, Stad in de Storm by Thea Beckman, about Utrecht in the Renaissance.
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my favourite part of Iron Chef is when Iron Chef Kenichi paints up his menu in that wonderful caligraphy. It looks real cool. It's just so different
to European writing.
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Just bought William Burroughs's Dead Fingers Talk.
And something else I'd been wanting for some time: a Donald Duck comic by Carl Barks, FC0308, the only scene Barks ever drew in which someone commits
suicide.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Also I got a Guide to Learning Hiragana & Katakana, which looks fun, though considering I also still have a Modern Greek course, an Ancient Greek
course, an Arabic course and a few Russian courses lying around I keep my fingers crossed I get to it.
Yesterday I got a nice Dutch youngsters classic, Stad in de Storm by Thea Beckman, about Utrecht in the Renaissance. |
'Hiragana & Katakana' : are these Japanese character drawing categories (am I close?). I think maybe I once knew about this but have since long
forgot.
middle greek is quite similar to russian and ancient greek is different still. I have yet to get back to latin and greek which I love. Arabic, tho
needed now is a whole other world . . . tho if I were to live longer, I would love it.
Perhaps you are right for doing the polymath path . . .
I tried it once or twice and got tired of the routine for more than a few years . . .
-- what do you mean Dutch youngsters classic? I'd love to learn about Utrecht in the Renaissance! But I dunno Dutch, hmmm lemme go look! thanx fer
the idea
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Thea Beckman's debut was for adults, and the rests of her books are for kids age 12 and up, often based on historic themes. When asked "Why don't you
write grown-up books?" she replied "Grownups will read my books anyway." 
Shall I post you a summary of that book?
Ooh, and Arabic is relatively easy as a language... The biggest problems are the reading from right to left, and that in writing there are 4 different
symbols for every letter: one for a letter on its own, one for the beginning of a word, one for the middle, and one for the end.
And what do you mean Polymath Path?
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oh!
a polymath is someone who studies lots of things.
Post me a summary? Well what can you tell me about Crusade In Jeans, the one where she got popular???? Or are the market for such things in general
there, better. I for one would love to see more of that stuff. Was that story accurate insofar as appropriate for the tenor of Dutch cultural
attitudes then???? or can that be measured. hmmmm
This is the first I've ever heard of this, tho, so I am already looking at it with a skewed perspective. Historical fiction for youth in the states
never really took off. Video games replaced it and fantasy settings. I liked that stuff too, but I went into history. So it's a novelty to be
hearing about such things and so of course, I ask questions about it that are interesting to me. Maybe not at all relevant to what you even brought
it up for . . . Que?
Damn, I almost fell outta my chair there!
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Arabic is easy huh?
I'm intrigued. What 'lessons' are you looking at?
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woah! that's almost eery all those bouncing balls smiling and leaping head over heels IN UNISON!!!!!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by punknaynowned
oh!
a polymath is someone who studies lots of things.
Post me a summary? Well what can you tell me about Crusade In Jeans, the one where she got popular???? Or are the market for such things in general
there, better. I for one would love to see more of that stuff. Was that story accurate insofar as appropriate for the tenor of Dutch cultural
attitudes then???? or can that be measured. hmmmm
This is the first I've ever heard of this, tho, so I am already looking at it with a skewed perspective. Historical fiction for youth in the states
never really took off. Video games replaced it and fantasy settings. I liked that stuff too, but I went into history. So it's a novelty to be
hearing about such things and so of course, I ask questions about it that are interesting to me. Maybe not at all relevant to what you even brought
it up for . . . Que?
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Crusade in Jeans is about a 15-year old boy named Dolf, whose uncle is a scientist and who has invented a time machine. It's not perfect, when it's
been used to ap something back and forth, it needs to be repaired for a month. As an experiment, they send Dolf to the Middle Ages and will flash him
back in an hour. When the hour is over, the children's crusade is marching along and a little boy is zapped back to the present. Leaving Dolf to march
along with the children...
It's a very captivating book, read it twice from start to finish in a day, and it's 600 pages long. Plus Beckman was famed for using relatively
difficult lines. Whenever her bosses complained she used a too difficult word, she'd say "Nonsense!"
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