In Rainbows
Visions
For Long Tomorrow
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
mbv
Modern Times
Figure 8
Love Is Overtaking Me
American IV
American VI
Vespertine
There's gotta be some more, but those are what come to mind. 11 total.
Same question.
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In Rainbows
Visions
For Long Tomorrow
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
mbv
Modern Times
Figure 8
Love Is Overtaking Me
American IV
American VI
Vespertine
There's gotta be some more, but those are what come to mind. 11 total.
Same question.
AM--Arctic Monkeys
Funeral--Arcade Fire
Kid A--Radiohead
Veckatimest--Grizzly Bear
Under the Iron Sea--Keane
Easy Tiger--Ryan Adams
Born to Die (Paradise Edition)--Lana Del Rey
Death Magnetic--Metallica
Dear Science--TV on the Radio
Antics--Interpol
Dreamt For Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain--Sparklehorse
Next Q?
How many characters in American literature qualify as "iconic"?...and which ones and why.
TJ Eckleburg's glasses.
The sky in 'Prufrock.'
The sea in Moby-Dick.
Death in Dickinson.
The river in Huck Finn.
The shop in The Golden Bowl.
Yoknapatawpha County.
and many more on channel 4.
How many stocks do you own?
12
How many times have you read your favourite book?
Those are actually literary elements, devices, personifications, and tropes (and I love your choice of the shop in The Golden Bowl)...but not actual characters. Yes, arguments can be made for anything to be a character--such as Middlemarch in Middlemarch--but i was referring to traditional characters...as in people.
So, How many characters in American literature qualify as "iconic"?...and which ones and why. Death in Dickinson, by the way, does qualify under both definitions.
12
How many times have you read your favourite book?
You didn't finish the second half of my question:
So, How many characters in American literature qualify as "iconic"?...and which ones and why?
Only twice. There's just too much else to read.Quote:
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How many times have you accidentally capsized a boat (including canoes)?
Never, I think. Three times recently, on purpose, for a kayaking class (if that counts).
What's your favorite book Pompey?
How many times have you had a panic attack, or come close?
I don't think I've had one. Even when I was really near death, I just kept thinking about how to save myself. Looking back, I think it was more irrational denial of what was happening than detached reasoning, but I didn't panic just the same. And I've never had an irrational "panic attack" as a kind of general anxiety.
How many times have you hit a bullseye with an arrow?
None! Not that my aim is especially bad, I just haven't tried enough.
How many friends have you grown apart from? (continuing the glum theme)
Taking 20 years ago as a baseline, all but my wife. One or two of those have a bitter story behind them, but most were just part of a healthy going forward with life.
I'm thinking of buying a small property in the western part of the US for when my wife and I are in the country. What state do you recommend?
E: Six friends, I think. I've never been to the States, but from the west coast I might choose Seattle.
How many favourite books can you list?
All but three friends, though I maintain acquaintanceships with a few others.
How many really serious relationships have you been in so far?
downtown Santa Barbara, California. Let's hang. Alternately weed will soon be legal in Oregon.
No relationships and about twenty books.
Same book question.
If you mean really serious romantic relations, there were two, one of which ended in marriage. If you mean, um, just "serious", I suppose it depends what you count. More than ten, less than twenty is what I tell myself. (That's not much for someone who went to college in the seventies).
Books are beyond counting.
Knowing what you know of me from the site, would I be happy in Texas?
How many people in here can help Pompey Bum out with his decision?
Oh I'll make the decision. I'm just a bit iffy about Texas, despite the lack of state taxes.
My advice in any case is to join me in SoCal. Texas is probably hot and full of cowboys.
How many short stories have you written?
Pomp, go Alberta or go home, you know you want this flat tax.
And no short stories.
How many countries have you been in for more than a week consecutively?
Canada and the UK. Canada I was in the sunshine coast, and for a day in Vancouver. UK, I visited London, Cambridge, Oxford, and briefly Bath. I was with my dad both times so it wasn't much fun.
How many albums do you really like that have gone number 1? On any major chart, I mean.
Pompey just move to Banff, you will love it if you like any of the following things:
Clubbing
Australians
French Canadians
Nature
Wildlife
Winter (about eight months thereof)
STD's
Small Towns
Tourists
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Lol, Banff has a rep for STDs?
Also interesting that a small, naturey town has good places to go clubbing. Something tells me Pompey is not into it though.
See, Santa Barbara is much better, we're also small and gorgeous (mountains and the beach!), proximity to LA for good concerts and events, nice coffee shops, it's a Uni town, and it's always summer. Plus, me.
Uh huh, well the other day I went for a jog and one minute from my house ran into a field of ****ing elk. What do you have in Santa Barbara? Smog?
And a few weeks ago I was running, turned a corner and there was a great big bull elk right on the trail, I screamed out, leapt back, and he did the same and then I ran my *** off in the other direction, he was enormous.
And yes, Banff is the STD capital of Canada and basically a party town for transient Australians, French Canadians, travelers and people from Calgary.
The air is good, actually! In terms of wildlife we have coyotes and these little endangered buddies.
How many cute toads have you ever seen or captured?
Many many many, they're endangered but that doesn't stop them from being all over the streams in the local foothills.
How many hot chocolates have you consumed in one day?
Only two probably.
Max number of peanut butter/jam sandwiches eaten in one day?
1, I don't care for them.
How many slices of tomato in a sandwich is enough?
as many slices to give you one thin layer for the whole of the sandwich. so somewhere in the 1-2 range depending on the size of the bread.
now onions are a different story. you can pile lots of those on!
how many pieces of bread do you typically eat in a day?
as many slices to give you one thin layer for the whole of the sandwich. so somewhere in the 1-2 range depending on the size of the bread.
now onions are a different story. you can pile lots of those on!
how many pieces of bread do you typically eat in a day?
hmm, double posted----I must really like onions!
Agh! You'd rather have a huge pile of onion on a bread than tomato? I like them both, but large quantities of raw onion are a chore to eat, unless it's with roe and sour cream, or something like that.
How many slices of bread? Maybe 4-6, depends on whether I have porridge for breakfast.
How many reindeer have you seen?
Santa's 9 every Christmas for the last 16 years.
How many science fiction authors are geniuses and which ones?
Too many to list all of them. Asimov, certainly, and all the others who are legitimate scientists. Then there's the likes of Iain M. Banks and Peter F. Hamilton, who had/have brilliant imaginations. I could do a much better list if most of my books weren't in storage.
How about overachieving authors? As in, those who make their ordinary ideas extraordinary through force of will and effort.
Sartre, C.S Lewis, Tolstoy, Flaubert are people I would think of if I'm reading the question right.
I would add Carver to Clopin's list. He worked hard.
How many naturally gifted writers are there, ie the opposite of Calidore's question.
A lot of naturally gifted writers, Lykren.
How many scars do you have?
Four scars, two of them from knife cuts to my fingers while doing woodwork as a young lad.
How many scarves do you have?