Now, as to your coy reply about my not being able to read sarcasm in your post -- if you ask me, it's a desperate attempt to cover a major screw-up on your part. If it was truly was meant as sarcasm, you did a lousy job in presenting it. That is not my fault, but yours! And yes, I studied literature of all genres ad nauseum. So what? My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson. My favorite authors are Richard Bach (Illusions, not the seagull thing), Dante Alighieri, and William Faulkner. Playwright, besides Shakespeare -- Jean-Paul Sartre.
Any more ignorant questions?? ;-}
Out of curiosity, I skimmed through my replies on this thread, and failed to uncover any "'interchangeable' use of 'that' and 'which'". Perhaps, due to the late hour, I simply missed it. What of it? Your misuse of "like" for "as" is more glaring error, especially coming from (ahem) a professional writer. Do you want me even to bring up ending phrases with prepositions? If my piddly little grammatical errors make me an ignorant dolt who has not the first clue about writing, then you're in the same boat, honey.
if you ask me, it's a desperate attempt to cover a major screw-up on your part.
Amusing. You are wrong, and you can't even admit you're wrong. The reader is better able to define the meaning of the text than the author? How very deconstructionist of you. You can't pick up sarcasm in my comment, and yet I'm supposed to believe you have read Ann Coulter's intent correctly?
If it was truly was meant as sarcasm, you did a lousy job in presenting it. That is not my fault, but yours!
You're right. I should have put a large [/sarcasm] tag at the end, so that no one could miss my intent. [/sarcasm]
My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson.
Well that explains a great deal. You and I are oil and water. I dropped a course because the professor assigned 300 pages of Emily Dickinson poetry. I read about 30 pages and threw the book across the room. Ugh. My favorite is probably William Blake, although I have a fondness for 17th century poets such as Donne, Herbert and Milton. Favorite author is Thomas Hardy, with James Joyce a distant second. Faulkner is my favorite American writer. I am much more partial to British writers, though. Bach's Illusions is a fun read, but I would hardly rank it up there with the all time greats. Favorite novel is Hardy's Return of the Native. Beautiful prose. Playwright, besides Shakespeare of course, is Marlowe (although I had a great deal of fun with the Restoration comedies).
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Thanks for the smiley. I've enjoyed this, despite the rancorous tone of your #350. I appreciate the conversation of intelligent people. And I would classify you as such, despite your remarkably erroneous opinion of me. ;o)