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To: sionnsar

Let me see...

I always went “there” instead of where everyone else was
I always liked geeky/techy men (”Revenge Of The Nerds” comes to mind, here, for some odd reason...)
I was listening to classical when I was 12, along with C&W, pop, rock (American Bandstand) and... (or maybe earlier)
Never got into news magazines because I didn’t like the way the presented the “news”
Had a CB long before “Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Ducky” was popular.
Read Josephus, Plato, Greek mythology, etc in my late teens...

And had a hard time finding a religion to fit my beliefs!!! (I looked around a LOT!)


352 posted on 04/03/2008 5:25:47 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)
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To: Monkey Face
I started on classical about age 6 or 7, listening to 78s, later "The Hour of Great Music"/"The Great Hour of Music" -- the local AM station could never decide.

Early 60s we had Newsweek & USN&WR in the house but never Time.

I forgot my decade of everything Russian, beginning with "The Brothers Karamazov," going on to everything I could get my hands on (including an awful lot of horrifying Solzhenitsyn including his fiction) and even into Russian SF authors.

The latter -- a lot of good writing poorly recognized over here and one Russian SF tragedy, "Hard to be a God," was barely edged out for a Hugo by (very liberal but great writer) Ursula K. LeGuin's excellent "The Left Hand of Darkness." Two such good books in the same year... And it was only 3 or so years after that that the absolutely wretched feminazi-preachy "Of Mist, and Sand, and Grass" got the award. (I may have the awards mixed up.)

357 posted on 04/03/2008 5:37:58 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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