Mafia ? (Il zotto di pazzo)

[Monkey Face]

The Evil Double Posting Mouse is making my miserable life into cruel joke.

With luck, I will find another way to post that isn’t quite so rife with perils of stuttering...

G’night, all!

[Monkey Face]

The Evil Double Posting Mouse is making my miserable life into cruel joke.

With luck, I will find another way to post that isn’t quite so rife with perils of stuttering...

G’night, all!

[HKMk23]

More gems from Churchill:

In those days he was wiser than he is now — he used to frequently take my advice.

Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
— Winston Churchill, on General Montgomery

MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

There but for the grace of God, goes God.
— Winston Churchill, speaking of Sir Stafford Cripps.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
— Winston Churchill, 1942

http://theorem.ca/~mcole/Churchill.html

[NicknamedBob]

"There are so many books ... it’s the one thing that makes me agree with Dead Corpse about the desirability of a longer life than the reasonably expected 80-ish."

The stack of books to read is growing faster than anyone's ability to keep up. If you read three books a day, you're still falling behind.

Don't worry about it. Not reading is worse.

Reading is a way of making up for having a short 80-ish life-span. Each book is a distillation of the life experiences of the author, and of the wisdom he or she has gleaned in surviving them.

Reading books is the opposite of playing computer games; with every book you read, another life essence is added to your own.

[HKMk23]

True. I had approached Sabatini’s “Scaramouche” with a jaundiced eye, but found it engaging.

And I was so transfixed by Edith Wharton’s “The Children” that I read it through in a night; a tale of those who have whatever they want, no matter who it hurts; and of the cost of not having what one wants. Absorbing. To the last.

[HKMk23]

“The stack of books to read is growing faster than anyone’s ability to keep up.”

Yeah, ain’t THAT the truth! The bookshelves in my house quake with nervous anxiety every time someone mentions free books.

Of course, one of our more recent hauls netted us a complete 9th Edition (The Scholar’s Edition) of Encyclopaedia Britannica. The covers show their age, but the text blocks are in very fine condition.

[Silentgypsy]

Re: post 795. Wonderful and thank you!
I read of and exchange between G.B. Shaw and some famous woman I can’t recall.
Lady: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a child with my looks and your brains?
GBShaw: Imagine if we had a child with my looks and *your* brains!

[Silentgypsy]

Oops: and=an

[Silentgypsy]

Time for Crowbar to go for last evening stroll.
Goodnight and sweet dreams!

[Tax-chick]

I read a lot of Sabatini’s books in college - they had a full set back in the stacks. I’ve read most of Edith Wharton’s books in the last 10 years, but not “The Children.” I’ll have to put that on my library reserve list.

[Tax-chick]

“The stack of books to read is growing faster than anyone’s ability to keep up.”

If we bought books instead of checking them out of the library, we'd have to camp out in the yard because the house would be packed with books.

[NicknamedBob]

"If we bought books instead of checking them out of the library, we'd have to camp out in the yard because the house would be packed with books."

Books

Books in boxes. Books in racks.
Books in hallways. Books in stacks.
Books on shelves and closets tall.
Books on every patch of wall.

Books where sunlight makes them fade.
Books around that I’ve mislaid.
Books my wife has gathered in.
Books beginning now to win.

Taking over in my life,
Books now keep me from my wife.
In the doorway of the den,
Stacks of books have grown again.

I go around the other way,
Easing back to hit the hay.
Unless subtly they have crept,
Into the space where once I slept.

Striving now to find a nook,
Not encumbered by a book,
I subside into my chair,
To find a book is waiting there.

Some few minutes reading now,
Will help me with my sleep somehow.
And when I nod and stiffly wake,
I’ve lost my place, for Heaven’s Sake!

NicknamedBob . . . . . August 30, 2007

[LibreOuMort]

This poem could describe Sionnsar to a T. I have a huge library of technical texts and science fiction - none of which I read. (I take that back, I have read a few of his books, but there are literally hundreds more I haven’t) I have to move and it’s painful to contemplate.

[LibreOuMort]

***This is me, waving at you affectionately from a safe distance!***

Thanks, T-C :-) I love hearing about all your critters, including the dragons and the mice..... It’s highly entertaining. Hearing about the offspring’s escapades and exploits makes me feel connected to the world. Thanks for sharing your family with me, and yourself, too.

[Tax-chick]

[Silentgypsy]

Good morning! Crowbar waited ‘til 0700 for constitutional.

[Tax-chick]

Kathleen was awake for a setaround from 0330 to 0430. The cats have very interesting activities in the wee hours ...

Baby and I slept until 8:00. DP left for the office at some point, leaving the little boys hanging around in their pajamas and the older ones still in bed.

[Silentgypsy]

I forgot to tell you: last evening, there were six deer meandering around the yard! (I get a big kick out of watching the wildlife here—ducks, geese, the occasional armadillo that looks like something Dr. Seuss made up.)

[null and void]

You could always start the Sionnsar Memorial Free Republic Lending Library...

[Tax-chick]

the Sionnsar Memorial Free Republic Lending Library

Good idea!

I don't know anything about the value of old technical manuals, but used-book stores will often pay cash for science fiction books, even when every other genre is trades-only.