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Pearl B4 Swine
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Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou
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Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
(Harper Lee and Capote were neighbors growing up; the character of Dill was based on him)
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Ice-Cold in Alex by Christopher Landon
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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birdie
fowl
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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
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"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness."
Captain Jack Sparrow
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Albertus
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey (Morton Freedgood).
(Pelham was PG Wodehouse's first name.)
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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ElaineC
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The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
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QLib
Bad Example
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The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing.
(The child in question is sort-of alien to its family)
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Sort-of aliens among us? Well, it is Towel Day:
Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Golden Key
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The Urantia Book, "authors undetermined".
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Steve H
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - author unknown. ('Sir John Mandeville' is fictional, and the whole book is now known to be a hoax)
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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Golden Key
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"The Way of a Pilgrim" and "The Pilgrim Continues His Way", by an anonymous Russian pilgrim. (I recommend the Helen Bacovcin translation.)
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Steve H
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The Pilgrim's Regress - C.S.Lewis
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Pilgrims in Grey by John Punshon
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Albertus
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The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wilde
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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Where The Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Maurice - E M Forster
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Steve H
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Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell (link - one-word, given-name titles)
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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Albertus
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The Remains of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
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My beard is a testament to my masculinity and virility, and demonstrates that I am a real man. Trouble is, bits of quiche sometimes get caught in it.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Carry On, Jeeves, P.G. Woedhouse—both involve butlers.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Steve H
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The Admirable Crichton - J.M.Barrie. Another Butler book. However, I must pedantically point out that Jeeves was a valet, not a butler.
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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QLib
Bad Example
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Fifty years of Carry On by Richard Webber
[ 27. May 2012, 19:37: Message edited by: QLib ]
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Golden Key
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"The Web That Has No Weaver" by Ted J Kaptchuk
(Webber...Web)
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Steve H
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Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Fun with Dick and Jane, textbook published by Grosset & Dunlap
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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QLib
Bad Example
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The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Edith
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The Inner Sea by Robert Fox
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Edith
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Fantastic Voyage novelized by Isaac Asimov
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf
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Pay no mind, I'm doing fine, I'm breathing on my own.
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Steve H
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Lighthouses - Lyn F. Pearson
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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The Lighthouse - P D James
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (thus completing the circle)
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Neil Gaiman, Sandman
(Gaiman and Pratchett co-wrote American Gods)
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Edith
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Sands of Time by Barbara Erskine
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Edith
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Steve H
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The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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QLib
Bad Example
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The House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III
(Made a great movie)
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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