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Posted by: Dave Graham (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: August 09, 2002 12:39PM
<HTML>Just finished reading LIAGB, and it appears that I was in it! Imagine my surprise. I knew that I was 'getting into' the story, but had no idea that I'd actually managed to jump into it.
My little boy Eddie appears to have transmogrified into someone called Molly though. Must practice more....
<HTML>Actually the lentils jar is a good idea :)
It just seems so.... plausible!
Unfortunately my bag is already always so loaded that I'm afraid it won't fit. Unless I get a small jar... do you know what's the minimum size for the entropy verification to actually work? :D</HTML>
Posted by: Dave Graham (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: August 19, 2002 02:50PM
<HTML>Hmmm. I guess you'll need a fair amount of lentils. If you just had 2, they'd always be sorted and you'd spend all day panicking....
I reckon a babyfood jar would be about right (try filling a giant size mayonnaise jar and you'd never lift it...) Fit neatly in most bags. You could call it an 'Entropyometer'...
<HTML>ebay?
empty babyfood jars or "specially crafted endoscope coincidence verification devices"? I bet you'd get tons more money from the latter ;)</HTML>
<HTML>So, guys - if you had the chance - and judging by the many creative suggestions re lentils, it won't be long before you do - which book would you most like to jump into?
I fancy Wuthering Heights, if only to see the battle between Ms Havisham and the Pro-Caths. Wonder how Kate Bush would have written about that one? "Heathcliff, it's us, the Cathies, we're home again" .... smash!</HTML>
<HTML>So, guys - if you had the chance - and judging by the many creative suggestions re lentils, it won't be long before you do - which book would you most like to jump into?
I fancy Wuthering Heights, if only to see the battle between Ms Havisham and the Pro-Caths. Wonder how Kate Bush would have written about that one? "Heathcliff, it's us, the Cathies, we're home again" .... smash!</HTML>
<HTML>With the entropymeter - sorry: "specially crafted endoscope coincidence verification devices" - we could form a Nextian band, kind of like those Inca ones with the panpipes - except replace the panpipes with rattling lentils and as back-beat of literary references.
ScarletBea, have you got hold of some of those Thesaurean maggots? I don't know the meaning of most of those words, let alone how to spell them... ; )</HTML>
<HTML>Uh-uh. I'd jump inot Sense and Sensibility, hot foot it to Norland and then start a fight between Miss Havisham and the Red Queen. Just because I'm twisted like that...
Actually I have to confess a sneaking regard for the Red Queen, if only because she has a biological theory named after her. Basically you can run as fast as you like, but can't ever get anywhere. It's liek the arms race, where the Soviets and Americans were roughly matched until the USSR collapsed, but a 198s Russia could have monstered 1950s America (and vice versa)</HTML>
<HTML>Oh there are far too many books I'd like to visit...
Let me see:
* some of the Maeve Binchy ones, if only to see what happen to the characters after the book ended (she does that to me lol)
* into 'Duncton Wood', although I suppose I'd have to be in hiding not to frighten them, and I couldn't understand what they were saying and I couldn't go into the library... no... this only works if you're a mole :(
* Roddy Doyle's 'The Commitments': I'd audition for the band :D
* all the historical fiction ones from Sharon Penman or Barbara Erskine, if only to see in truth what was it like to live in Middle Age England, Scotland and Wales (since I like them so much...)
I suppose I'd be kinda scared of jumping into any science fiction ones ;)</HTML>
<HTML>and I've just thought: if you jump into any travel guide book, wouldn't it save you the plane tickets? :D
(btw Ben: 1. try getting another mail ;) and 2. if you want to occupy your time in a nice way, visit www.omeworld.com/index.php, register (nothing to it...) and have fun :D )</HTML>
<HTML>Which book to jump into? Interesting question - you may well love the book, but would you want to live there? E.g., I've read I, Claudius till it fell apart, but live with Caligula.....maybe not. Perhaps if you could jump into a book at a given place - into the Lord of the Rings after the battles - I hear the beer's good in the Green Dragon.
Perhaps the opportunities to cause mayhem are the most attractive....jump into Lake Wobegon and party like it's 1999.....tell Dorothea Brooke to get a life....nip round to the Bloom house and have one's wicked way with Molly before Blazes Boylan gets there....the possibilities are endless, but I've gotta go, because, believe it or not, there's something good on TV!