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I wonder what Rand would have thought of O'Hara as a novelist, not much is my guess. Actually, did she ever comment on other bestselling novelists of her era ? I know about Mickey Spillane of course, but can't remember anybody else.

I didn't call you an anecdote. I called Your story (or reference to a story) an anecdote. As I just said, you can barely read.

There is a science of health. And it's not a secret. I certainly never tried to make a secret out of it. http://jtstory.onlinewebshop.net/lexicon-nh/nh_lexicon.html There is a science of health. And it's not a secret. I certainly never tried to make a secret out of it. http://jtstory.onlinewebshop.net/lexicon-nh/nh_lexicon.html He can barely read, either. It's even worse than I thought.

My bet on a girl's name, Elizabeth (natch, note that it hasn't been given to any grand or great granddaughter yet as a first name, it's b een reserved)Charlotte Diana Caroline. For a prince I dunno, but many non Royal first time mothers want to honour their own dads. I've always been glad my father's name was John and not Elijah or Mervyn or Howard.

Hockey team owners were born not knowing anything and they still don't.

To clarify, working class women do not get morning sickness. Working class men get it on Sunday mornings after Saturday nights. Carol Albert Finney fan

The working classes do not get morning sickness anyway. I never got it either time.

Weelll.... it may be possible that the morning sickness story is for public consumption, and that there was a miscarriage scare. They were probably saving the announcement for the Queen's speech on Xmas day. It would have been the first speech in her reign to contain anything interesting. Carol Conspiracy theorist

Dear Diary, YEEESSSS!!!!!!!!!! Ich DIEN!!!!!! William

jts, In a long, long life I have been called names on occasion. I am not everbody's cup of tea I know. But never before have I been called an anecdote. And you added "And so's your mother, and your son". Talk about nasty adjectives. You need help. You have an inability to understand basics. As an emergency measure I suggest you memorize MEM's excellent post #29 above, and then fast (shut up) for at least a week. You might not feel better after this treatment, but I will.

Hamlet's wimpiness was not as universal as he thought it was.

That, at best, is only anecdotal evidence. If I gave anecdotal evidence in favor of something I believe (for example that tumors can autolyze), people would call me nasty adjectives. It's not very good even as anecdotal evidence in the absence of detailed information. If you want to talk anecdotal, there are plenty of videos of cases where psychiatry did extreme harm. If you don't like videos, even tho they provide more detailed information, try this: http://www.ssristories.com/index.php I have difficulty believing that poison can improve health, of body or of mind, so of course I am skeptical of any story about a poison improving health. If someone took a poison and then got better, more likely they got better in spite of the poison, not because of it. Actually with modern psychiatry, they are not supposed to get better; getting better is missing the whole point. There are plenty of videos where qualified professionals admit that psychiatry is not based on science. There is a special word for doctors whose doctoring is not based on science: quack. To say something positive, I know cases where someone had a psychiatric condition and recovered after an improvement in diet or after fasting. But those are anecdotal and they are not peer reviewed and nobody would take them seriously. Words. Fucking. Fail Me. I do not swear much but sometimes it is necessary.

So my mother and myself are at best only anecdotal evidence.Indeed you never knew us at our best, you apparently understand nothing about anecdotal evidence , even the degrees of its effectiveness.

No, no. Was there one? I meant that on rereading O'Hara I was startled how many of Trollope's characteristics he had , so I thought on re-reading both of them, fairly simultaneous. There are lots.

I waited till my lucky number 13 on viewers came up, assuming everybody cheated or is not interested, it is John O'Hara, Butterfield 8. tr I have not read any reviews or even seen the whole of the movie that was made from it. That is because when I did see part of it, I did not recognize it as connected with the book I had read. The Greek tragedy is A Rage to Live. You will gather that I am an O'Hara fan. If I met him in real life I do not think I would like him but God could that man write. The awfulness of the Butterfield 8 movie, the essential connection between O'Hara and Trollope (not kidding)and re;ated topics of interest only to me, I warn you, you will probably have to put up with,

I've had about enough of this. Jts, if I met you I would probably like you. You are a type I like, the Canadian Old Misery, my grandfather was one.He was great company. When I insult you I know it does not bother you one bit. . But in my latest insult I said you were dangerous and you are, in that your deliberate ignorance could cause harm. My mother was a paranoid schizophrenic as I have mentioned elsewhere. I did not inherit her condition, but I have a very small narrow middle,on that spectrum which I must live if I am to live. I have experienced one pschotic episode (No violence , do not panic anybody ).It was 15 years ago and very interesting but once was enough. The dominant delusion was about death but I never considered causing any myself. I say this to you publicly jts, I repeat you are a stupid ignorant whackjob, and not to my friends privately as I would prefer, because I want you to listen for once. LISTEN. My mother had her life, I had my life, because of psychiatry and pharmacology. And make a video of it.

er Michael, I am not sure what demographic I am appealing to here.

A propos of nothing, I just finished Innocent by Scott Turow which I missed when it first came out although I loved Presumed Innocent and should have noticed it. My fave character in it is a minor one, Judge Basil. Yee. He doesn't speak English good, although he reads and writes it better than William f. Buckley. He has used this drawback to ascend to the bench.. He became a lawyer because , understandably, as a child and youth who did not speak English good, people would not listen to him. But if they were on a jury, they had to listen to him. No choice. (Better tie this into (what thread am I on?) - oh yes, listen up, everybody. Even if you don't speak English good, on OL you will be listened to, with respect, and that is worth money.)

I don't know what a petard is but I assume this is a naval metaphor because a startling preponderance of English metaphors are.(haven't looked it up) It sounds very uncomfortable anyway.

Sarcastic, you? Naaah!Ohwell, if you build a great big petard I guess you can't complain when it hoists you.

Following Jonathan, I was only thinking of changing the final scene, and in this case doing it with advanced CGI, so it would look like the original actors doing my unconventional ending. Which, btw, makes me wonder if he's seen the We the Living film, since it does have a different, and arguably happy, ending.It does???? I( only read that it was really good) I can't be sure if you realize my Marsellaise comment was satiric I was following Jonathan too. I think the singers in that scene did not sound amateurish enough, but who cares. It was such an electric moment.

The richness in vocabulary of the English language is awesome indeed. I veritably "fell in love" with English from the moment I heard my first English word as a kid. To this day, that love has remained as 'passionate' as ever. I don't really know why that is so, but quite a few non-native speakers of English seem to feel the same way. Despite the irregularities in spelling, where pronunciation and orthography often don't match; despite certain grammatical intricacies (like for example the many forms in which the future tense can be expressed), and despite its many other 'subtleties', English...

Hubris is the latinized spelling of greek word. English is composed of words "borrowed" wholesale from other languages including greek, latin, german, yiddish, spanish, japanese, chinese and many others. Shakespeare once wrote "the Greeks have a word for it...;" and English speakers replied "they sure do, and we are going to make it OUR word too..;." Ba'al Chatzaf I have a lot of hubris. I did something really, really hubristic right here on OL and nobody even noticed.

Great minds, Michael, will seldom work together well on a marketing campaign. It's brilliant. Hope you raise a fortune. Just don't spend it on 9ths or Jonathan's projects for their own fortunes.

I would take the opportunity to begin a new writing project: a hypothetical reconstruction of the lost works of Aristippus, and perhaps Epicurus too. But first I'd have to spend a few years doing the practical research, like field work, but which would mostly have to be conducted at the dinner table, on the couch, and in the bedroom, I suppose. How about a remake of Casablanca, where Ilsa of course stays behind with Rick, and Major Strasser, following an unexpected coming out of the closet scene at the airport, defects and ends up on the plane with Laszlo (also a closet case)? Happy endings all around! Oooh, but then what about Louis... And you should improve the the Marseillaise scene too, give that singing more oomph, take advantage of a modern studio, you could really blast the audience out of their seats.