Aye or Nay?

Nay

Shakespeare?

Of course.

Thackeray?

Fraid I haven't read him yet.

D.H Lawrence?

Thackeray's one of those writers who didn't really understand when his work was good (and not). I've been thinking of rereading Vanity Fair lately. I loved it the first time, but that was long ago.

I take Lawrence with an enormous grain of salt, since I have personally put a lot of his modernist guff behind me. But he is a brilliant (if self-tortured) writer, so aye.

Round hippy glasses on women?

I just recently read Women in Love and really liked it. I'll probably get around to Vanity Fair as I'm on a novel kick right now and really I just love novels, though I'm trying to distance myself from them a little.

No to modernism eh? So how about...

Eliot?

Haha and nay to round hippy glasses most of the time.

Not modernism per se, but Lawrence's ideas about the physical/phallic over the ideal is no longer something that has much meaning for me. If did once, though.

And as far as hippy glasses go, nostalgia burns bright.

Eliot gets an aye-ish because his poetry is quaint--exactly what he didn't want it to be when he wrote it.

Henry Miller?

Boo, I love Eliot.

I read half of Tropic of Cancer before losing it on a train, but I wasn't exactly in love with it. Also, and this isn't totally Henry Miller's fault, but I read a book of short stories a bit later by Anais Nin and found them to be pretty sucky.

Light nay, but I do plan to finish a Miller book so I'll get back to you (also my cousin's name is Henry Miller, true story).

C.S Lewis?

Oh sure. Sitting by a fire in my cardigan--after I'm done with Eliot. :p

The smell of wet wool?

Haha

And nay to the smell of wet anything... unless it's grass or the ocean or a forest or something.

Swimming in very cold lakes, rivers or oceans?

Yes, off the Maine coast, if I get to be 16 again when I do it.

Watermelons?

Nay, I find them pretty annoying to eat, they are too big and I can never be assed to finish an entire one.

Cooking an elaborate meal only for yourself?

Watermelon
Bare feet
Grass between your toes
Summer

Naw, too much work.

Cooking a meal together as a social activity?

I usually do most of the cooking in social situations because everyone I know is incompetent and would just make something horrible. I don't dislike people being around while I cook though, so aye.

Eating a lot before bed?

Nay I try to aviod esting late

Having cake (or other sweets) early in the morning

Aye, when I can get it.

Moon cake?