― Ed (dali), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost - kate got there first!
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I'll keep quiet then.
We saw a good pantomime at the weekend! It was at a fetish fayre, but still relied on the usual silly pantomime jokes (although there was a disappointing lack of "he's behind you!")
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
...
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST KNOCK IT OFF, YOU SAD FUCKING PATHETIC GOTHS!!!!!
God, I'm turning into Marcentino. Shoot me now.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
lol
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
(remembers who I'm talking to)
. . . but of course, if you demand less Gothtalk, then it shall be done, oh great one. (fans kate with a palm leaf while peeling her grapes)
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Grrrr.
Oh, and how is it that women with gorgeous figures (ie, the goth, and just about every other non-obese woman i know) thinks they actually have a terrible figure and are really just a big bloaty monster when they're really really not?
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
On A Certain Lady At CourtAlexander Pope
I know a thing that’s most uncommon; (Envy, be silent and attend!)I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend.
Not warp’d by passion, awed by rumour; Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly;An equal mixture of good-humour And sensible soft melancholy.
‘Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?’ Yes, she has one, I must aver:When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman’s deaf, and does not hear.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
A sofa, I mean, not whilst driving.
JB, that is a great poem! I've never read any Pope but I have this impression that he has a bit of a boring reputation.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Ed, my mum would like sausages and bacon. Can you oblige her, maybe Wednesday or Thursday this week?
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
18th Century educated persons had access to/knowledge of a heck of a lot more obscure, often mythological, symbolism than we did. Sometimes I think we are missing out, not having that knowledge. But then I think of all the things that we have to remember these days that 18th Century poets didn't have to have any knowledge of.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
What I really hate is when you are reading an archaic book and all the footnotes are in the back, so you have to keep flipping back and forth, maybe even keep two bookmarks. I far prefer when they're at the bottom of the page, as footnotes should be, so they do not disrupt the flow of reading.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
A pedant writes: if they're at the back they're not footnotes, they're endnotes.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
whenever I hear anyone mention footnotes I always think back to the style guide from when I was writing my dissertation at uni. There was a supserscript 1 in the midst of the text and at the foot of the page the footnote read "1Don't use footnotes."
I have read books in my time when the footnote is longer than the text above the horizontal rule, which is just silly.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Harvard - the name of the author (or authors, though et al is more common for more than two) and date are given throughout the text and the bibliography is listed alphabetically by authors' surnames.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link