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Was? Has she died? I'm not finding a death date on some sources I googled. I found a site called "www.dorislessing.org". Take a look at this photo and this one. Her eyes in the first one remind me of my "Aunt Em"s eyes. (Actually my first cousin once removed.) Aunt Em lived to be well along into her 90s. The other features are different -- Em, whose mother was an AmerIndian, looked a bit like Georgia O'Keefe in features. Stark lines, aquiline nose. I've been reading Middlemarch in earnest, around some work projects I've been busy with. I'm up through the end of Book II. I'm wishing I'd read Middlemarch years ago. I've been missing out on delicious pleasures of comparing/contrasting Eliot and Rand. There's a sense in which I'd describe Eliot as "the Lessing of the Victorian era" -- the probing dissection. Ellen O Ellen you are so right! Maryann and Doris would have been soulmates. Indeed I do not know if Lessing is still living, I hope so. She has not published lately.

She wrote: Suppose that you have observed two young men on their way through college and, on graduation day, are asked to tell which one of them will make a fortune. Let us call them Smith and Jones. Both are intelligent, ambitious and come from the same modestly average background. But there are significant differences between them.[/size Smiths scholastic grades are uniformly excellent. Jones’s grades are irregular: he rates “A plus” in some subjects and “C” in others. Smith’s image in people’s minds is one of sunny cheerfulness. Jones image is grimly earnest. But some rare, fleeting signs seem to indicate that in the privacy of their inner worlds their rolls are reversed: it is Jones who is serenely cheerful, and Smith who is driven by some grimly nameless dread. Which one would you choose as the future fortune - maker? end quote Don’t you love Ayn’s use of semi – colons? I still have a hard time not putting about six per typed page. Of course, Jones is the money maker; Smith is the “money appropriator.” Rand goes on to write: Behind his usually grim, expressionless face, the Money – Maker is committed to his work with the passion of a lover, the fire of a crusader, the dedication of a saint and the endurance of a martyr. As a rule, his creased forehead and his balance sheets are the only evidence of it he can allow the world to see. end quote Grim. Dedicated. Creased forehead. Undoubtedly humorless. Couldn’t a Capitalist hero also love traveling, the movies and the ladies? She mentions George Westinghouse, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Arthur Vining Davis who ran Alcoa as three notable “Smith’s.” I wonder how the owners of Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and your new Midas Mulligan stack up? Peter Taylor Jeeesus! Perhaps it is true that il faut souffrir pour etre belle. But pour etre riche , not so much. Rand loaded more freight on the mega rich and srhewd and lucky than they could morally bear/

You got it! Do you have a favourite team?And if so and it is the Blackhawks. Jeez could you ask them to lay off?

You got it! Do you have a favourite team?

You changed computers? Could I have your old one? You still owe me on the honey. Carol honorary librarian again

Michael, Thar's gold betweem them thar pink covers. Jane Austen, the mother of them all, remains the master of presenting the inner lives of characters male and female.(best in my favourite, Persuasion). George Eliot, LM Montgomery. In our day the late lamented Maeve Binchy seamlessly melded self and sociey from the female viewpoint with an artistry that goes unrecognized beneath the "heartwarming" juggernaut of her commercial success. Jennifer Weiner, ditto-- there are so many more. If Kat does not have any to recommend, she is not the woman I think she is. Unfortunately like all successes they have inspired emulators of horrible awful banility - many of whom have made the bestseller lists.

Tenets we hold without realiziing they are the tenets of a philosophical system arenot exactly tenets, but our own , dare I say, deepest feelings and reactions. However you turn the kaleidoscope, it is still factually composed of the same fragments of glass. Carol Christian Atheist

Border Skirmishes and Uneasy Truces

Dostoyevsky: Misdemeanors and Sharp Rebukes

Personally I think we get all too much of characters' inner world and thoughts in fiction these days, especially in chicklit. "What does that half-smile mean, she wondered..did he notice the safety pin in her hem? A vision came to her of her mother with needle and thread...'We'll have to let out this skirt again dear..' she knew she should have worn the blue dress instead. He was talking to a thin blonde in a figure-hugging sheath...had he not really meant it when he said she was adorable? Of course not, she told herself, yet the memories of that sincere full smile kept piercing her heart..." aaargh.

yes - as far as I consciously know! If it was a quote I would have attributed. I hope you wikied Tom and saw how remarkable his life was. He was with his mother in a low security women's prison. for example, until the Children's Aid removed him. I have a tenuous connection to him. His cousin, Maritime fiddler Ned Landry, was also a cousin of my aunt's husband. Tom was born in Saint John, 75 miles from my hometown.

Snow is drifting from the heavens here today, probably shaken loose by the stomp of his arrival. He died yesterday, around the time that a Leaf was knocking a Senator out cold in a fight at the first minute of the good old hockey game. He has been called Canada's Woody Guthrie, but no. No poetry, no politics and no great musical talent. Tom is the grim and raucous redandwhiteneck part of our soul, the chipped mirror that reflects us without comment. In his songs we met the stranger we avoided in the Sudbury tavern, the trucker going the other way on the Trans-Canada, the picker we passed in the Tillsonburg fields, and he was us.

- The Barrel of Sherry (Poe) Sir and Madam: It has been definitively determined through exhaustive research by my Department that the original working titles of the referenced works were, in fact, "Hole in the ground and a Big Heavy Swingy Thing, and "A Triple of this Great Stuff I've Been Drinking" Dr Q.T Raven, M.A. (Oxon) Edgar Allan Poe Chair Emeritus University of Transylvania

I didn't get the GTWT one! I'll do this page: Fleming - the Spy who Loved Me Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles Beckett - Waiting for Godot Krapp's Last Tape poe - The Pit and the Pendulum

Nice nuances, Mike. But AR did not allow of nuance in her division of cultures between the civilized and the primitive.

lol. Plato Retreats.

Well, better be open-walleted too. These gals are probably getting union rates. That is how it often works in the True North of Peace, Order and Good Government. Continence is a fiscal virtue, oftentimes. No kidding, eh? Union rates? The common street whore would be cheaper and, likely, more fun. No strings attached which is the way I prefer it with either the whores or those other gal But who am I kidding? I like strings. I'd never roll in the hay with anyone with whom I didn't intend to have a romantic relationship. I knew that all along, being omniscient and all, as a mother of sons. But I still dont know why an innocent google hit yielded that surprise.

Well, better be open-walleted too. These gals are probably getting union rates. That is how it often works in the True North of Peace, Order and Good Government. Continence is a fiscal virtue, oftentimes.

Glenn Beck Changes Mind On Ayn Rand "As many of us on Current know, Glenn Beck usually does not change his mind, but two days ago he did! In June of last year he extolled Ayn Rand on his radio show saying, “You gotta love her – she’s great!” But then he watched and played American Values Network's ad, which has been at the center of the recent discussion, and highlights the Rand vs Jesus problem for the GOP. And Beck did an about-face, calling Rand a "bigot" .....". Beck was wrong there, of course. Her refutation of religion and her understanding of it were deeply thought and felt. Yet she did display bigotry, against three other groups I can think of, and of these groups she knew little(except for the first) and studied nothing, but reacted to them as a collective in a bigoted way: Homosexuals, Native Americans, and Arabs.

Ellen here is someone else who has read both Rand and Lessing. I read Martha Quest,In Pursuit of the English, and the Diary of a Good Neighbour/ The latter had the greatest impact on me, and I read it not knowing the author was Lessing. What a sublime talent, what a unique soul she was. Carol -just stumbled on this old thread thing y is there anything you won't find on OL ? It's a treasurehouse.

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Kyle, think! I don't know where you live but surely it is far from Toronto. And those girls could be socialists!

Can somebody explain this? I was looking up a fairly obscure writer (Laura Fraser -NOT the Scottish actress) and one of the googles showed me a naked woman. I retried thinking I had made a mistake, but again I got lady parts. I am not familiar with professional porn sites but this did not look like I think one would. Just photos of ordinary young women with no silicone breasts or anything. The site was tagged crystal-clear, "Get Laid Tonight in Toronto". ?????? I am ordering my son to take my 4-year old grandson's computer away.

Krapp's Penultimate CD

That would be Neil Bissoondath, in his book "Selling Illusions: the Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada" ... whose multicultural marriage includes hockey for the kids ... Bissoondath, like the uncle he loved to hate VS Naipaul, is an exceptionalist. I wonder if he stands by the illusions he wrote of in 1994.