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R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

So, who is in for the London mee, exactly? I am, and I know Capergirl is. Who else? It can't just be the two of us, because when I am alone with, y'know, a girl, I start panicking and talking about Philip Roth...

johnslat · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject: The Grapes of Roth

Dear R,
Jeez, Louise - no wonder you have no discernable love-life and are on these boards all the time instead. Philip Roth indeed! Why, don't you know you should be talking about Henry Miller instead?
Regards,
John

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Oh John, you know those Henry Miller lines never work on the chicks. I can't think of a single jokey chat-up line to put here that won't be censored into oblivion, but you get my point.

If not Roth, how about Bellow?

Capergirl · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:02 pm Post subject:

@R...Do you really think I'd show up alone? Wink

johnslat · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:03 pm Post subject: Chick Magnets

Dear R,
BELLOW!!!! ( he bellowed ). Surely you jest. It's Jane Austen you want, my man. A few quotes from Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility or - best of all - Pride and Prejudice, and you'll be fighting off the chicks with a cricket bat ( ah, YOU'LL have the cricket bat - not the chicks ). And, if you want to bring out the really heavy artillery: GO BRONTE - Wuthering Heights is sure-fire.
Regards,
John

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Yeah, but Austen is so (hushed tones) dull. And I haven't read any of the Brontes since I was a kid. No, the only good women want nothing more than a couple of quotes from Herzog or Humboldt's Gift - or maybe American Pastoral - and some kind of pasta meal. Right? Right?

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

People, people, people. Shelly.

One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling is too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.

I can give not what men call love,
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the Heavans reject not, -
The desire of the mother for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar,
From the sphere of our sorrow?

"One Word is Too Often Profaned," by Percy Bysshe Shelly

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

For reasons of security I have decided to have my own conference. I cannot divulge the location in case I am kidnapped by my enemies from this forum.

Information about the location wil be diviulged 48 hours after the conclusion of the proceedings.

No one else is invited.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

No, my security advisor, an ex-Marine now in the Us, has advised me that it would be too dangerous to allow anyone to attend. So I shall go to my conference myself.

Capergirl · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:00 am Post subject:

Capergirl · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:01 am Post subject:

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Where and when is the Japan conference?
One more important point, could I write it off on my travel budget? Wink

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Damon Runyon penned a nice story about a horrible child who was kidnapped. His father (or was it stepfather ?) told the kidnappers to keep him.

My question :"What was the name of that story ?"

Does anyone still read Damon Runyon ?