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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Returning to the Anne of Green Gables storyline from months ago, I see that a prequel is to be published -- Before Green Gables. There's an extract here:
Is the prequel - not too bad a neologism (for the 20th Century) - mean 'Anne of Yellow Gables' thinking chromatically, or 'Anne of the house which will eventually have green gables' when thinking chronometrically?
Jasper Fforde, Antonia Forest, Elinor Brent- Dyer, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, L. M. Montgomery, Gwendoline Courtney... Actually I re- read books far more often than I read new ones.
I didn't like 'The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul' as much as 'Dirk Gently'. One book I do re-read annually is 'The Seven Percent Solution', which is a matchless Holmes story and one of the very few good non-Doyle penned tales.
I've just finished reasding a book titled: 'The Nine Mile Walk' which is actually a set of short stories set in the north eastern US post WW2. Stories are clever little logic puzzles in essence. It about a two hour read for the 10 or so stories in the book. Occupies an afternoon otherwise spent doing profitable things quite nicely.
By a bloke named Harvey Kellerman (I think) the books gone back into packing.
*****Edit 'reasding' to 'reading'. It's going to be 40C here today and I was thinking a good tall cold riesling would do a treat with lunch as there's no beer in the refrigerator. Now 44 days without rain.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2008 02:40AM by bunyip.
40! No wonder I got so hot coming home today.
I found the animals in the house so that they can survive the heat, I so don't like rabbits in the bathrooms (well, one). If you walk in, he comes up and digs his claws into your feet and ankles. He would have made a good Monty Python character.
It has delusions of grandeur/is psychotic/normal for a rabbit in that it waits for the Birman cats to approach then it charges them.
Did you know cats can jump backwards and up about three metres? I didn't until one of them did it from sitting on my stomach. It was another interesting set of scars for the dermatologist to ask me about.
My sister used to have a rabbit that had free rein of the back garden, he used to see all of the neighbouring cats off without any problem. Oh and mum wasn't too impressed either - he used to see her off if she left her ankles uncovered! Vicious bunny.