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The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: 2Jedismom

Been fishin'?


3,161 posted on 11/22/2004 6:07:02 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree

I very much *need* to go fishing, though I haven't been since early summer. No excuse, either. [sigh] Something's wrong with me.


3,162 posted on 11/22/2004 6:27:55 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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To: JenB

Only alcohol I have is bourbon and Bailey's...might be able to figure out something, I suppose!

But I have a major, major headache. I've been lying low for awhile, but it's not going. I still hate to get nothing written tonight, though...

I did stay through "The Last Samurai", which is one of the few Tom Cruise movies I've ever lasted all the way through. It wasn't bad, surprisingly.

Going to take some drugs and see if I can get in at least four or five hundred words tonight...


3,163 posted on 11/22/2004 6:28:09 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Hmmm... Bourbon and Baileys... maybe not *together*, but with a glass and some ice, either one is perfectly useful. :-)


3,164 posted on 11/22/2004 6:42:08 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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To: RosieCotton

I love that movie. The final charge almost makes me cry.

I need to do another 500 words, min. Have been off working on homework so I won't feel totally guilty.


3,165 posted on 11/22/2004 6:42:41 PM PST by JenB
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To: Ramius

I made a little something with Maker's Mark and lemon and sugar (well...Splenda). I dunno what the heck it is, but I like it. Someday I should learn the proper names for things, I guess...

I think I'll skip the drugs. May not need 'em...


3,166 posted on 11/22/2004 6:45:36 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: JenB

I found a way to work in about a hundred words of Dickens earlier, which helps...


3,167 posted on 11/22/2004 6:46:33 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton
Going to take some drugs and see if I can get in at least four or five hundred words tonight...

Yah know... I think I've heard Hunter S. Thompson say the very same thing...

It started something like: "We were about a hundred miles out of Barstow when the last of the ether began to take hold. My attorney was pouring beer on his chest to facilitate the tanning process. No sense telling him about the bats, I thought... he'll see them soon enough."

3,168 posted on 11/22/2004 6:47:39 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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To: Ramius

Oh no...what have you started now?


3,169 posted on 11/22/2004 6:48:17 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

A good bourbon should simply be sipped gently and slowly from a large glass. Maybe some ice to let it slowly dilute. If that's too volatile for your nose, then cut it with something fizzy and lifting, like a light soda water or sprite.

Just my .02 :-)


3,170 posted on 11/22/2004 6:51:53 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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To: RosieCotton
Oh no...what have you started now?

hehehe... sorry. It's OK, though... we have magnums.

3,171 posted on 11/22/2004 6:53:15 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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To: Ramius

I'm workin' my way up to that...I do have it with just soda water sometimes. ;-)

But usually it's in egg nog or something like-a that.

Oh...I forgot I had rum. Coulda done something with that instead...maybe that would have been less heretical.


3,172 posted on 11/22/2004 6:53:50 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Ok, only a few hundred more... I threw in a tabloid story, no need to actually advance the plot. Let's see what else I can add to pad my words.


3,173 posted on 11/22/2004 6:54:03 PM PST by JenB
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To: Ramius

BTW, apparently my whatsitcalled is a bourbon sling. So says the webtender, anyhow.

Just in case anyone wanted to know...


3,174 posted on 11/22/2004 6:54:45 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: JenB

I'm chipping away. If I can get in another two or three hundred I'll be satisfied for now.


3,175 posted on 11/22/2004 6:58:40 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Yay, I passed the mark. I'm trying to get ahead today. Threw in a nice argument, that makes things easier to write. I just wish I knew how to pad my story out by a few thousand words so I could start on the climax.


3,176 posted on 11/22/2004 7:02:22 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

I'm still in a debate over whether Mr. Wright is right or wrong.

The other guy is pretty darned OK after all, though very blunt at times. He's something of an intellectual without being snobby about it, which is very attractive.


3,177 posted on 11/22/2004 7:05:59 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Polyandry is the solution to many crises.

Heroine has just admitted out loud that she is in love. Unfortunately she confessed to her mother, rather than Male Lead.


3,178 posted on 11/22/2004 7:07:43 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Um...Mom doesn't strike me as the understanding type.

Not good, no?


3,179 posted on 11/22/2004 7:10:55 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: JenB

My brothers suggested killing off both guys or shipping her off to a convent.

Um...there's gotta be an easier way...


3,180 posted on 11/22/2004 7:11:28 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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