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Does anybody know if this is John Barth? He writes about Alphabetic Priority in The End of the Road, which makes me think it is possibly him since it is getting there. I now recall coming across...

Early in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a spider burns up in a candle, which is seen as a bad omen. Rain is a great bad omen. :p

I was able to finish The Iliad over audio CDs. I thought there was enough action in it that reading would have been bearable. I could not finish The Testament by John Grisham after page 100. I...

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann should help improve your butler vocabulary if it's possible to penetrate.

Daisy from The Great Gatsby? Sort of? Smashing up dreams and whatnot?

I don't know if anyone covered this, but grigioverde's comment on page 1 seems a bit out of place. I didn't interpret this as a list of books for people to aspire toward to be a writer, which I...

I do not know who wrote this obscure title, but I believe it was a book (not the one by Jennifer Armentrout). It may have been a poem or a movie, but I believe it was a book I came across. Does...

It is impossible, especially when young, not to notice the differences between the different races and possibly to make judgments. That being said, I know that skin tone in particular is made up in...

I would suppose I am efficient at time management since I arrived ahead of time for all of the two events necessary at my friend's wedding this weekend, one of which was after a six hour trip!

You can't go wrong with The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I greatly enjoyed that book, and it's a classic.

I think Buchannan from The Great Gatsby for his admiration of a friend that tied characters together and Tom (I think?) from The Grapes of Wrath for having trouble not interfering with the law. ...

I think Hemingway, just like Fitzgerald, was partly known for his style (Fitzgerald used the m-dash unlike anyone else). However, Hemingway's style is widely emulated, particularly the fast-paced...

I bought a book of sonnets that includes Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets. It's a nice demonstrative history. I found "Ozymandias" among them. Also, the line "How do I love thee? Let me count...

It depends what you mean by discursive. I'm able to stay on subject in a poem, but as a whole, they pass between many subjects. And it's kind of a toss up between reasoning and intuition. ...

It's always in the last place you look. :p

Why do rivers with their currents only flow down?

7712 ooo

More often in silence than with music. TV is too much of a distraction.

That's different. I usually think more about what people will say. People are finally passing away, now that I'm nearly 30. Until high school, this was not a world I knew.

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I write poetry. I featured my poem "The Best Insincerity" in the thread "Getting Poetry Published" under "Poems, Poets, and Poetry" from the main forum page. A lot of people post their writing,...

That's a really good illustration. How did you get it? Also, is Tom Ta a pen name, and are any other books out or forthcoming?

I have read that it is difficult to get a book of poetry published except through a small press as poetry books generally do not sell well. I have been submitting to literary magazines as of this...

Welcome to the Jungle as redone by 2Cellos.

Reading it for school during the school year doesn't necessarily help. Although I liked the two characters in The Last Five Years, the presence of only about three characters in the novel Great...

How about anything from the Saw series?