"Hand-sewn books are sown on either cords or tapes. Of course, you can have cords and tapes on a machine-sewn book, but they will be false ones, pasted on after the book has been stabbed to death. I do not want to give you the impression that I am some sort of John the Baptist crying in a wilderness of machines. Machines are designed for special ( Read more... )

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Hah! Finished the Godspeaker trilogy by Karen Miller!

I thought that trilogy was going to best me, lol.

I showed it.

over 2,200 pages read in just a few short weeks ;P

A mushroom walks into a bar and everyone starts leaving. He asks, "where is everyone going? I'm a fungi."

Some awesome comic strips that I got off of the website http://www.asofterworld.com.

( a softer world )

I got off to a very rocky start with English. The first time I consciously remember making a decision about it was in 7th grade when I decided to take an AT (Academically Talented) English course. I can’t say that I really regret taking the class, but I still wish another teacher had been hired for the job. Mrs. Shurtleff played favorites, was rude ( Read more... )

R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke

i'll be sad to never read new works from you.

you've had such a large impact on so many people worldwide, i'm truly sorry that you're no longer here.

merry christmas :)

chuck wachtel

A Paragraph Made Up of
Seven Sentences Which Have
Entered My Memory Via Hearing Them
of Reading Them and Have Each
Left an Impression There Like the
Slender Scar Left by a Salamander
in a Piece of Rapidly Cooling
Igneous Rock       Gentleman, which of these three vegetables: tomatoes, pumpkins, or squash, will your wives say most ( Read more... )

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