The Hall of Fire

Hmmm....missed this due to self-imposed absence. :) Coupla thoughts: • We always use olive oil to fry our latkes - mmmmnnnnn, olive oil! :drool: mmmmnnnnn, latkes! :drool: :drool: • The Chanukah gelt - the chocolate money - it's related to the dreidls. Because the transmitting and teaching of the re...

Strange and Norrell on screen?! What an intriguing thought! I'll have to think about it a little more - not really sure how I'll feel about seeing it on screen as I have very fixed and subjective ideas about that book! I love it, btw - the writing and style, the pseudo-historicism, the humour which ...

Warning: this is very oblique. I'm thinking of the tower of Babel: The peoples of the world all spoke one tongue after the flood of Noah, and they united to build a tower that would reach all the way to heaven - a preposterous idea which offended God. To undermine this unified effort, God sundered t...

Scribbles, at a pinch you could read the first few chapters online here:

http://www.pemberley.com/etext/PandP/index.html

Not as satisfying as a 'real' book in hand, but you can do the first four chapters without having to rush to a bookstore in the middle of the night.

No, no! Not upset at all! Just pulling at the bit, biting my tongue, fingers itching (insert additional metaphors here) - very impatient to post! I guess it was a wrong choice of smiley - doesn't carry quite the right tone.

Sorry about that.

Gah! Unable to trust myself to speak so I'd better run away right now!

Vinnie, you are mediator as part of your legal work and hence must be able to place your hands (keystrokes?) on material which provides some guidance on how to argue civilly (ie argue an idea, rather than argue a person). It may be a Very Good Thing if you could create a Dummy's Guide to Debating or...

Rowan and TH - I meant what V said. :) I realised there was no logical link between my post and the preceding conversation - my thoughts were rather lateral to the immediate topic. But I can see how you would have read the literal meaning. I am often unclear due to posting in a rush. Nonetheless, th...

Demned tricky, those slippery slopes! I see Din lost his footing .

Hi Din. Good to see you! I've missed you both (Din & Leoba).

I see. So the debate about the rulings of the Ninth Circuit is on matters of ideological stance of the justices?

I don't know about any of these things, being a furriner and unacquainted with the legal world.

Whistler, I don't understand the gist of your previous post (Founders' hat notwithstanding)

Do you believe that the opinions of the Justices in that ruling are unfounded or erroneous? If so, I am interested to know your reasons.

Vison, that is an interesting response to Strange and Norrel; I found it un-put-downable and absolutely gobbled it up! (Felt like a kid again; after my beloved grumbled that it was 2 in the morning already and could I please put out the light, I got my itty bitty book torchlite and read it half unde...

"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing."

A motto to live by, or the kooks will get us in the end. They never give up.

Padme and Sauronsfinger have his and hers avatars! :D So cute! Erm... Yes, my jaw dropped also. Is it unreasonable of me to admit that I wasn't expecting much from this movie? Yes, it is unreasonable of me. The trailer was very impressive and both my kids remembered it after HP was over (which is n...

Am sitting on hands and typing with nose. Bery uncompfortable.

I would venture that political correctness (ie the horror of even the slightest possiblity of perpetrating an offence against any minority) is being confused for intolerance. I can read both the examples Jn gave above as precisely this: "goodness, people who have trouble with the God-word have ...

A thousand pardons! I had no idea they squeaked.

Whistler, I'm harbouring a shameful suspicion that you got all those potholders cheap somewhere and are trying to offload them.

Inconceivable, I know.

Hello all.

Please, don't ever wait on me! My intentions are good but life too often gets in the way. I will return with the stuff on the silms and the Light soon but in the meantime... This freewill issue is quite a nut to crack, is it not? One interpretation I have brooded on goes back to the theme of music: ...