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  1. LostPrincess13
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    LOL! Just passed that phase actually. I'm finally on summer break.
  2. Pensive
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    Lokasenna?
    It's a very different user-name. Wonder if it's from some work of literature?
  3. LostPrincess13
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    Hello! How are you?
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    Yes! I'm not as Norseome as I'd like (being relatively new to it all) but I've definately developed a serious affection for the literature and, weirdly, for the language. I can't speak ON to save my life but translating is EXCITING! At least, I think it is. You should see my friends rolling their eyes when I try to convince them of this!

    Have you got any particular areas of interest? Are you studying? An academic? In Leeds by the sounds of Neely's post?
  5. LostPrincess13
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    Top of the morning there old chap! (*giggles* did i say that right?) How are you today?
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    Hello!

    I was scanning through the same thread Virgil was looking at, and your name caught my eye. It's rare to meet people who are into their Norse literature so I thought I'd pop by and give you a wave... *waves*

    Come say hi to me one day :-)

    EP xx
  7. Neely
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    It's really interesting to see people into stuff like that, I've not even heard of any of them apart from Chaucer of course. I've not really got an area of specific interest really, but I suppose I spend more time in the 19th century so that would be one if anything. It is true that the 19th century was an awfully long period, with a lot going off, but when I come to do my dissertation it is likely to be on the Romantics or the later Victorians, also if I get the opportunity to study further it is likely to be in this area too.

    Yes I live and work in Sheffield and study part-time at Sheffield University. You are studying at Leeds then I take it? Are you likely to take your studies further (assuming you are studying a BA at present)?
  8. Virgil
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    Loka, I just read your post where you had a low self confidence. I hope you put that aside. I've found your posts quite deep and well argued. There is no reason at all you should have low self confidence. I find you to be quite an intelligent young man.
  9. LostPrincess13
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    LOL! When you become a professor, there'll be more where that came from! Prepare for endless 'torture'!
  10. Neely
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    Hello there Lokasenna, I often enjoy reading your comments. What sort of Medieval/Norse stuff do you enjoy, it is not an area I am at all familiar with?
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That's an unfair question!
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Probably the Elder Edda (if that can be termed a book?)
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Ehyeh asher ehyeh! :)
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In a lurid pink building...
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Reading, writing, procrastinating, thinking...
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(Un)professional academic.

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"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

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My eyes do decieve me...

by Lokasenna on 06-16-2010 at 02:53 PM
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Can anyone understand these things? It seems so farcical – that man can be so inventive, so creative, and yet a slave to the physical self! Is it perhaps because my mind so often conjures up mighty vistas of the imagination, never needing banal sight, that my eyes have wasted so? The sheer power of inherent wonderment is often enough; why then am I still so reliant on these weak orbs? Can human craft beget nothing more profound than flimsy plastic plates and tender wires to keep me truly in this

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If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell?

by Lokasenna on 10-06-2009 at 02:50 PM
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A few thoughts on the debt we owe to Hell.

Satan was the first democrat. In all creation, he was the first to rebel against hegemony and tyranny - indeed, the great hegemony! Of God Himself! The ineffable plan was exposed, a declaration in a world were disagreement and discord had never previously appeared, and Satan took it upon himself to disagree. How revolutionary - how human! Power to the masses, not just the One! The first ever example of something so important: not just discord,

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What the hand dare seize the fire?

by Lokasenna on 04-22-2009 at 11:27 AM
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Out, out, brief candle!

Ah yes, the flickering flame, such a symbol of ourselves, and of our world. Almost every religion attributes some symbolic meaning to this item, representing some form of synergy with a higher power to our mutual improvement - bringing, as it were, illumination to our personal darkness.

But is it an accurate representation of our situation? Is our existence, our personal reality, a flame? A single burst of energy in an otherwise eternal darkness?

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Cause Célèbre

by Lokasenna on 03-31-2009 at 10:51 AM
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With Madonna attempting to use her 'fame' to adopt yet another African child, and being aghast at the media coverage of this event, its time I climbed on to my soapbox once more, and have a rant about modern celebrity culture:

'Celebrity' is such an odious term, and a repellent idea, at least in its modern application. Everywhere I walk, its soulless stink surrounds me. All men are not equal - this I freely acknowledge - but the distinction is not a meritocratic one. Rather, it is

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We Humans.

by Lokasenna on 03-27-2009 at 03:40 PM
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What are we? We humans! Elements and chemicals, atoms and molecules that move in such wondrous concert, such harmony. Yet my clothes move in concert with me - are they not me? There is no special property that differentiates the molecules in my skin from those in my shirt - yet I feel no pain if my shirt is torn. What are those molecules to me? We are such closeted ideas, so entirely cut off from the world around us, and yet we think we see! The irony! How do we justify calling ourselves alive,

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