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I've been reading Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and I came across this fabulous sentence that has had me pondering it and breaking it down for days now.

The limit of this evil time had arrived only when, on the dawn of a winter’s morning, Peter Quint was found, by a labourer going to work, stone dead on the road from the village: a catastrophe explained—superficially at least—by a visible wound to his head; such a wound as might have been produced (and as, on the final evidence,

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dir. Spike Jonze 2009

How endearing it is to find subtle truths about existence in such a simple way. The greatest films deal with big issues in small and subtle ways and Where the Wild Things Are is one of them. Before coming into the theater I was aware of Spike Jonze's unique cinema vertie approach to his adaption of the great children's novel, I was also very well aware of Dave Egger's writing talents and had plenty of confidence in the strength of the screenplay. What I wasn't ...

I spent $63 at the book store today, because I had $50 of gift money to spend and I was originally going to B&N to get a date planner book because usually every year my mom gets one for me from the QVC book club because they made these really cool ones and they always came with a mini sketch book. But this year they stopped making them so my mom told me to just pick one out at the book store I liked and she would pay for it as one of my gifts.

So me and my sister went to the ...

I'm watching television.
I just witnessed a guy make a French Horn using a garden hose, a funnel and a regular mouthpiece in the middle of a Mozart concert.

Er... Who was it? James Morrison. I think. Oh well, that all I got from the credits.

It actually plays.
Wow.
I'm impressed.
Shocked actually, but it is very interesting.

It makes all of the notes and everything, it is seriously like a normal horn.

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Hey everyone! I hope everyone had a nice holiday season. Happy 2010 in advance.

I am sorry that I have not been able to religiously visit LitNet like I used to. I am sorry to say that I simply don't have time for it anymore. I don't do whatever I want anymore really. I suppose it's called becoming an adult.

Anyways, I just wanted to give an explanation and a heads up that I probably won't use this account much for a long time. I'll try and come back every now and ...