with a special nod to squeekiemouse:

Kate Beaton is channeling again

John B.L. Goodwin's The Cocoon

You *must* read this of an evening. Scurry out to the library and see if you can find it in an anthology.

Speaking with groblek and kay_gmd, I had one of my usual wandering conversations (well, we all three did), where you start one at point A, get to point B, and forgot where point A was.

I found it.

Point B was explaining Harry Flashman a fictional creation of George McDonald Frasier, and the source of the wonderful scoundrel who invades the honorable environs ( Read more... )

Many a literature thesis has missed the essential point

1) Queen of Buttery Doom,

2) A nice way of exploring the world.

Re #2---
A. Look up on-line articles on poetry, as I've re-read my favorites* over much. Decide to see what wikipedians can come up with.

Here we go: Wikipedia Poetry Page
With a link to a page on Aristotle's Poetics. Cool enough, have never seen that. Ended up browsing the ( Read more... )