Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

:wave: Welcome, Madeline, nice to have you aboard :)

Thanks! Very nice to be here.

Hello everyone! I just register today and I have no idea about anything. I will write about myself after I'm done with this essay, which I have no clue how to write.

Hi there MDalloway and shelby ! :wave:

Hope you'll stay with us !
We'll be waiting for your introduction, shelby ! :nod: Good luck with your essay !

Welcome to the forum, shellby and MD! I hope you guys will like it over here! :D

Hello everybody. My name is Adam, but I am known as Big Al to many of my friends. I live in a small town in Illinois, where I attend high school as a sophomore. I am a straight A student, and I am considered very intelligent for my age, though modesty forbids me from having an opinion on the matter.

I try to be a pretty nice and friendly guy, though I will admit to having streaks of cynicism, skepticism and sarcasm. I am pretty laid-back, I am adamently individualistic, and I am an intellectual free-thinker.

As far as my interests go, I love (and have a lot of knowledge in) great modern literature, fine, artistic cinema, rock music mostly from the 60s and 70s (or the "glory years" as I call them), writing (I am currently taking a writing class), and Fighting Illini basketball, which I obsessively follow and invest a tremendous amount of emotion.

Anyway, to give you a somewhat more specific picture of my interests, here are some my favorite:

Authors - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mark Twain, George Orwell, Ursula Le Guin, Hunter S. Thompson, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe and J.R.R. Tolkien (sometime in the near future I anticipate immersing myself in the works of Ernest Hemingway, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Thomas Pynchon).

Filmmakers - Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky and Jean-Luc Godard.

Bands - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Doors, Ween, Yes, The Clash, Van Halen, AC/DC, The Stooges, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, The Flaming Lips, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and John Lennon.

TV Shows - Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Simpsons, Penn and Teller: Bull****!, Twin Peaks, Fawlty Towers, South Park, Mr. Show, Mad TV and Chappelle's Show.

Well, that's about it. Any questions?

Well, for one thing, don't you think that's an awful lot of personal information to give out?

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Well, for one thing, don't you think that's an awful lot of personal information to give out?

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No, it's not really something that worries me. But since you mentioned it, I went ahead and edited it anyway.

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And welcome Serenata! I hope you will like it here! But what do you mean by, you are not good in actual life? You seem like an intelligent and interesting person. You must be good in every life!

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Thank you, Pensive. But apparently I am bitterly sarcastic to a fault and a lot of people don't like that, including myself. At least when I write, I can control the worst of it. And hello everyone.

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we cant all be emotionally stunted like you!

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Thank you, Pensive. But apparently I am bitterly sarcastic to a fault and a lot of people don't like that, including myself. At least when I write, I can control the worst of it. And hello everyone.

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Hi again Serenata! You need not to worry about it, many people are like this. It's a human thingy. :D

~And Hi BigAl, you seem like an interesting person. Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to all the newbies, great to have you here :)

Hello every one !! @@

i'm from Kuwait ,, do u accept as a a member of ur family !! :$

Of course we'll accept you insolent. Welcome.

I was under hybernation for some months
so i thought i would introduce myself again as human's have a very short memory.
I am from India (and NO we dont eat snakes, cast spell on people,ride on elephants, etc etc...):D

Nothing much to say about myself!!

Dry_Snail, Where in India are you from?

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Dry_Snail, Where in India are you from?

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i am from pune, maharastra

where are you from?
and one more thing : M. Dalloway as in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway???

er...er...uhmm...I'm a twenty something from South Africa and no I dont have any Lion or Zebra running around in my backyard contrary to popular belief...and YES! I'm a literature-holic.DAMN! I should never have carried my pocket size oxford....thats a dead give away.
I think this is a great forum and 10points on this into page.
(que chariots of fire soundtrack in the background) I love that I can pick up Shakespeare and have a renewed sense of faith in the frivolity of love or page through Oscar Wilde and have respect that he had the guts to advocate his ideals(picture of Dorian grey) eventhough I might not agree with it myself.
thats that,(and the soundtracks finished) heres to virtual friendships.

Hello Group!

I literally stumbled upon this site tonight, and I am elated! (Not that I need another reason to blog something or to state an opinion, but hey...) It is approaching 2 am, and currently my brain is fuzzy, but sure as shootin' I will think of something stimulating to say tomorrow!!!

:flare:

Welcome all! :wave:

Hello forum,
It appears that I have been away for several weeks and that fact has become apparent. I'm sorry if I have missed respondng to any welcomes in the meantime. I have been in the claws of the Real Life demon lately and when I get that demon back into its cage I'll start moseying around. Probably to see if I can tag onto a discussion of Nabokov or Woolf whom I have enjoyed reading recently. Until then, there is probably more silence ahead. Meanwhile I am glad for at least the prospect of becoming an active member here, and many thanks for all your welcomes.

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i am from pune, maharastra

where are you from?
and one more thing : M. Dalloway as in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway???

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I'm from the USA (Cleveland, OH) but I'll be travelling to Tamil Nadu in the winter.


And yes, MDalloway as in Mrs. Dalloway. Of course. (though M is my first initial, so it's a little of both)

A Woolf fan, I assume?

Very nice to meet you, in any case.

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Welcome all! :wave:

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thanks pensive, you folk have a huge welcome mat.good job!

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Hello forum,
It appears that I have been away for several weeks and that fact has become apparent. I'm sorry if I have missed respondng to any welcomes in the meantime. I have been in the claws of the Real Life demon lately and when I get that demon back into its cage I'll start moseying around. Probably to see if I can tag onto a discussion of Nabokov or Woolf whom I have enjoyed reading recently. Until then, there is probably more silence ahead. Meanwhile I am glad for at least the prospect of becoming an active member here, and many thanks for all your welcomes.

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Nabokov and Woolf! My two favorites. Hopefully we can spark some worthwhile discussions.

I'm very sorry to hear about your Real Life demons. I hope you are able to be happy in life nonetheless.

Welcome to all the newbies, nice to meet you all! :)

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Nabokov and Woolf! My two favorites. Hopefully we can spark some worthwhile discussions.

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MDalloway,
Fortunately the demons should only be temporary (burdensome paperwork). I definitely hope we can get to discussing your and my two favorites. I've read about half of VN's novels, most recently King, Queen, Knave, and have only recently discovered Virgina Woolf, reading your namesake of course. Looking forward to reading more of both some time soon. Is there a preferred venue here on the site for discussion? I really havn't looked around yet.

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Nabokov and Woolf! My two favorites. Hopefully we can spark some worthwhile discussions.

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Nabokov! I've read some of his too, they are always like coming home. :cool:
I'd registered a bit ago, but everytime I returned, I am sorry to say I was a bit put off by the bright orange. I'm glad it is changed to a calmer shade. :)

And I thank the 'powers that be'.....:D

I'm Egyptian girl

I 've 21 years , Iam in the latest year in the university .......

My Faculty ...is .. Faculty of Litrature The departement of English

I hope there learn many things . ......., i wanna be perfect on English lamgauge

I wanna speake Eng As I speak Arabic( mother tongue) & I hope To know more about English Litrature

I'm fond of learning of Langauge ...........I hope to know more of langauge .........Eng & Frensh ..............etc

My Hoppies : Internet , swimming & Reading.

I've been to Tamil Nadu,the experience changed my life. More so because I am a NRI(non resident indian). It was special going back to my "root".
The people are the best!
hope you have a great time.

I'm Liz. I'm a feature writer for a newspaper. I'm an avid reader and don't really have people to talk to about what I've read. I found this site while researching for an article and it looked like just the thing.

Hello everyone,
I'm Billie and I'm delighted to be a member of this site.
I'm in my 40's and having done menial jobs all my life, I've now decided to get educated and am just starting an English Lit degree course with the Open University.

Reading is my big passion and has kept me going through the years, my motto being 'if it's got words, I'll read it.' I'm now being more selective and this site is the best to find the sort of material I want. I've been reading here for a while so decided to join the forums and hopefully make some friends.:)

Welcome to the site Walter, plainjane, la rose, OZEED, lizmac, and Billie_Bumble :) I hope you enjoy it here and make some new friends!

hi im tocoz im new at chating and the lingo be patient

Thanks Logos,
I'm having a great time already.
Hi Tocos, you'll soon get the hang of it, I'm sure.:)

Hi tocoz and Billie Bumble! :D

Hello, from ancient Hispania.
:blush:
I like opera, classical music, cinema, travelling.
My fauvorite city is Barcelona, and I have got too many fauvorite writers... I'll try it: Virgil, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rosseau, Goethe, Baudelaire, Maragall, Mann, Joyce (of course), Faulkner, Cortázar, Foix, Ferrater, Nabokov and García Márquez.
Well, bye!!

Nota bene: I'm sorry, I can't speak (and write) well enough in English. Please, forgive my mistakes. I will have the dictonary near, on the table.

HI broken mirror
u speak spanish right?

Yes, I speak Spanish very well. :brow:

can u teach me some phrases in spanish? like moron? he he ( yes , i knw YOU'RE reading this now.)

Moron=imbécil.
But, in fact, I don't understand you at all. Are you angry? Have I lost anything?