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The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...
Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
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To: Corin Stormhands
I don’t want to go back through all those posts, so I’ll take your word for it.
5,621
posted on
10/26/2007 10:45:32 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: Alkhin
hubba hubba - the 'boyfriend' you never quite got over...Actually, he looks a bit like my hubby, SirKit. ;o)
5,622
posted on
10/26/2007 10:46:09 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: darkangel82
Heh...that’s okay. Stick around.
I have a 7-year-old, I’ll likely go through all of this again. ;-)
To: Corin Stormhands
Heh, he’s gonna be a tough one, you know!
5,624
posted on
10/26/2007 10:47:11 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Corin Stormhands
LOL, a ‘difficult’ child?
5,625
posted on
10/26/2007 10:47:44 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: darkangel82
To: Corin Stormhands
That boy is just wayyyy too smart. You’re gonna have to watch that he doesn’t end up in trouble just on account of being bored... ;-)
5,627
posted on
10/26/2007 11:10:58 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
To: Corin Stormhands
I had lunch with my hubby so I’m in an awfully good mood. Oddly enough, I just couldn’t care one way or the other on the Dumbledore thing. Probably because as a writer I know things about my characters that are important to them as characters that would make them lousy humans. But good humans are boring to write about.
I guess I’m wrong. For instances, who would want to read a book with characters like a guy who has so much of a problem with lust, that his dozens of wives aren’t enough and he has to commit adultery and then kill the other guy for the woman? Or a chick who sleeps with her father in law in order to get pregnant? Or some guy who instigates murders and then holds coats for the actual killers while looking on approvingly? Nobody like that could possibly be heroic or righteous, right?
5,628
posted on
10/26/2007 11:10:58 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: RosieCotton
Yeah, Mrs. has a conference set with the teacher next week. We’re not sure how much longer we’ll be able to do school like this.
To: JenB
I had lunch with my hubby so I’m in an awfully good mood. Time for a smoke?
To: JenB
I guess I’m wrong. For instances, who would want to read a book with characters like a guy who has so much of a problem with lust, that his dozens of wives aren’t enough and he has to commit adultery and then kill the other guy for the woman? Or a chick who sleeps with her father in law in order to get pregnant? Or some guy who instigates murders and then holds coats for the actual killers while looking on approvingly? Nobody like that could possibly be heroic or righteous, right? ;-)
To: JenB
5,632
posted on
10/26/2007 11:16:28 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
To: Corin Stormhands
We went to a nice Mexican restaurant and ate fajitas. And plotted stories. I discovered many of my plot problems disappear if the heroine’s True Love has an evil bastard half-brother.
5,633
posted on
10/26/2007 11:23:45 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: SuziQ
It’s the kilt that does it. Put him in a poet shirt and he’ll look just as fluffy.
To: JenB
For instances, who would want to read a book with characters like a guy who has so much of a problem with lust, that his dozens of wives aren’t enough and he has to commit adultery and then kill the other guy for the woman? Heck, all they have to do is read the newspaper if they want that kind of crap. Happens every day.
To: Lil'freeper; SuziQ
Then there are poetry quoting guys who are still as manly as anything...
Witness Sean Bean in Equilibrium. Nice.
5,636
posted on
10/26/2007 11:37:12 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
To: Lil'freeper
That’s why I don’t read it.
5,637
posted on
10/26/2007 11:37:40 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: RosieCotton
*thud*
To: darkangel82
Hear hear. I’ll take happy fiction any day.
To: Lil'freeper; JenB; darkangel82
You guys *do* realize what book she’s referring to, don’t you?
5,640
posted on
10/26/2007 11:40:48 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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