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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 20, 2019 13:00:22 GMT
I also came across this quote from his Dealings in Bibliomania (1904) - "The best impressions concerning certain literatures are not derived actually by reading them". This could mean many different things, but I like all of them.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 18, 2019 17:32:07 GMT
they're not (as far as I can tell) wood engravings. It may be scratchboard.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 13, 2019 17:05:51 GMT
I like the "reasonably competent" about Hodgson, but I think he is being polite. Hodgson was full of enthusiasm but clearly had no idea what he was doing most of the time.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 13, 2019 13:05:23 GMT
I can think of at least two memorable goats in horror films: the one from the seance scene in Drag Me to Hell and Black Phillip from The Witch. I believe a goat appears in the wonderful L'ANTICRISTO (1974), but I have not watched it recently.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 10, 2019 10:56:51 GMT
But I'm now compelled to ask how your surname is pronounced! It's always seemed straightforward, but now I wonder.... It is actually pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 9, 2019 17:48:29 GMT
I'm not from the English-speaking world so it's a bit difficult for me to ascertain these things. I think the problem is rather that in English there is little or no systematic connection between how things are written and how they are pronounced. Unlike, say, Italian, where if you see a new word you immediately know how it is pronounced, even if you do not know what it means. (I am currently trying to learn Italian.)
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 4, 2019 14:33:21 GMT
Are you saying it is not? In any event, it's the creepiest story I've ever read about a pregnant woman who blunders into a subterranean location--perhaps through a well, perhaps through a sinkhole, perhaps through some other sort of opening in the earth--on or around her wedding night. That is so vague it could be the description of the plot of any story, including GONE WITH THE WIND.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 3, 2019 20:56:18 GMT
Next thing, you'll be telling us that Elizabeth Engstrom's When Darkness Loves Us is about a woman who falls down a well on her wedding night. Are you saying it is not?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 3, 2019 19:23:20 GMT
I read a lot of Allison V Harding some years ago (and reported about it on this board), and the only work of hers that has any merit to speak of is "The Underbody." That one, however, is magnificent and in a category all its own. It should appear in anthologies of great American short stories that children should be coerced to read in school.
Edit: And once again, I left out an "l" in Ms Harding's name.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 1, 2019 16:07:37 GMT
Derwent May – Grace Note: Man-parrot piano recital ends in tragedy. Man-parrots! Brr!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 31, 2019 14:19:44 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 30, 2019 16:00:16 GMT
The perfect follow-up book for those who love the oeuvre of Mrs Pierce Nace. I hate to be "that guy," but it is actually spelled Pierce Nose (although of course it originally does come from the German "Nase"). Edit: You cheated!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 29, 2019 19:44:14 GMT
Gently, though. He is nearing death. So maybe my plan to break down his door and demand in strong language to know why I haven't been sent a review copy might not be such a good idea? No! You must not! Also, although it should be obvious to regular viewers, I now feel the need to add that I am not he.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 29, 2019 17:46:43 GMT
Gently, though. He is nearing death.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 26, 2019 20:08:43 GMT
I followed him into Person of Interest, until the story lost me My case is similar. They lost me after about two episodes.
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