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[morwen]

back from mudmeet. rather entertaining. also knackering. finished The Catcher In The Rye up there, and then started Frankenstein on the way down. the rather dissimilar textual styles (although i note they are both written as first-person narratives/correspondence) have vaguely tempted me to rewrite Frankenstein in a more modern mode of speech. Robert Walton's first message to his sister could be thus:

Hi Maggie. Got into St Petersburg yesterday, very cold. Planning to discover Northwest Passage. Been whaling lots, even got hired as first mate. Off to Arkhangelsk in a couple of weeks! Will keep in touch. x Rob.

Except translate that to txt.

upcoming week currently rather quiet:

• Cafe Scientifique (urban foxes) on Tuesday.
• Zeitgeist II on Sunday.

you will note absence of any form of pub quiz. :( I'll be happy to do Thursday's again if other people go, though don't want to turn up there on my own.

Happy birthdays to doctor_tron and to William Shakespeare!

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

hey, riordon is settling down in the mud. she asked to play again today.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

eh? what mud? *scared*

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

having looked at the Cryo logfile, i presume riordon's character is the one created from your domain about the same time you logged in over the weekend? feeling really old now. ;)

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

yes.

[reddragdiva]

OT: I would be most grateful for your attention regarding the tedious lives of even more tedious early British saints on this article.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

I have added a paragraph! I shall sleep on article and hopefully more matter will occur to me.

[reddragdiva]

"Hic nos vado, hic nos vado, hic nos vado!"

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

and prepare for Pope Asbo!

[francs2000.livejournal.com]

One of you two might be able to help me out actually, because I'm not getting this uncyclopedia business: of the five articles I have contributed in my history of "having a go" four have been deleted and the other was tagged as "NRV" back in March. Am I just not funny enough or something? Or is my head too entrenched in Wikipedia to be effective?

The one contribution I made that hasn't been deleted is at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality and even then I didn't create the article to start with...

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

although i haven't seen your stuff (obviously, what with it having been deleted), this may be because much of the userbase is silly untravelled americans. the template {{British}} may serve as a warning. ;)

[nniaa.livejournal.com]

Catcher In The Rye is one of my favourite books. Holden Caulfield++

[nniaa.livejournal.com]

I have yet to read Frankenstein, despite my fascination with Mary Shelly.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what to make of it really. Had I read it when I was actually an alienated teen, it might have had more of an effect, but I dunno. Let's just hope I don't kill anyone.

[francs2000.livejournal.com]

I just thought I'd randomly post to say that I tried it, and couldn't get on with it (The Catcher in the Rye that is, I loved Frankenstein). I'm now wondering why when I hear that other people loved it...