Topic: THE NATURE OF EVENTS (Read 12567 times)

Dan M · « **Reply #60 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:05:19 AM »

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO THE VIXTER!

Dan M · « **Reply #61 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:06:01 AM »

HAPPIEST OF ANNIVERSARIES TO DR DRUXY AND HIS DW SANDY!

MBarnum · « **Reply #62 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:06:06 AM »

And catching up, I see that I missed DR Jennifer's birthday...so...here is my happy birthday wish for you, DR Jennifer!

MBarnum · « **Reply #63 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:09:49 AM »

And congratulations on your anniversary, DR Druxy and DW Sandy!

Jennifer · « **Reply #64 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:24:15 AM »

Thank you DR MBarnum.

Dan M · « **Reply #65 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:30:07 AM »

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. SALINGER (1951):

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

Dan M · « **Reply #66 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:31:35 AM »

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell (1949):

‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’

Dan M · « **Reply #67 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:34:29 AM »

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut (1969):

"All this happened, more or less."

Dan M · « **Reply #68 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:37:19 AM »

IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino (1979):

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler."

Dan M · « **Reply #69 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:39:01 AM »

ULYSSES by James Joyce (1922):

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

Dan M · « **Reply #70 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:40:59 AM »

J R by William Gaddis (1975):

"Money . . . in a voice that rustled."

Dan M · « **Reply #71 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:42:37 AM »

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1864)

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man."

Dan M · « **Reply #72 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:46:34 AM »

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves (1934):

"I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled."

Dan M · « **Reply #73 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:50:33 AM »

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Kurt Vonnegut:

"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

Dan M · « **Reply #74 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:51:30 AM »

THE PRINCESS BRIDE by William Goldman:

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”

Dan M · « **Reply #75 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:53:24 AM »

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll:

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the riverbank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'"

Dan M · « **Reply #76 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:54:39 AM »

FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley:

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

ChasSmith · « **Reply #77 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:54:55 AM »

Good ~~morn~~ afternoon, all.

It's good to be back from the early morning high school musical with nothing to do for a few hours but ketchup, relax, then go out to the house where a few of us HTF'ers get together occasionally to watch new releases in a really nice "home theater".

Actually, I think I'd best try to include a LI'L nap in there somewhere, seeing as how I was so rudely awakened at 5:50 AM by both of the alarms I set.

Dan M · « **Reply #78 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:55:49 AM »

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson:

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

ChasSmith · « **Reply #79 on:** April 29, 2014, 10:57:26 AM »

I forgot to say what the new release is.

"Oklahoma!" in Todd-AO, newly restored and released today in the new Rodgers and Hammerstein Blu-ray collection. We will also be sampling a few of the other films to see how they look, something that's already highly controversial out there on the internets.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #80 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:00:24 AM »

But let not another moment go by before I wish

A most wonderful 21st birthday to

The Vixter !!!!!

Dan M · « **Reply #81 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:01:16 AM »

NAKED CAME THE STRANGER by Penelope Ashe (pseudonym for 25 writers at Long Island's Newsday) (1969):

"Screwed."

ChasSmith · « **Reply #82 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:01:30 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on April 29, 2014, 05:28:32 AM

Good morning, all! I have much to do here this morning before I head down to City Center. I've got to transpose about 40 bars of the schmidt-Jones song "Thousands of Flowers" from the printed key of D-flat to B major (down 1 full step) because, once again, the arranger didn't do his job of providing a prnted transposition (just an mp3 file; oh, joy!) and I discovered on Sunday that looking at D-flat and thinking in B works for the strings and flutes, but when I get to a harp in the scale of C-flat, horns in G-flat or F-sharp, and trumpets and clarinets in the key of D-flat, my head explodes with too many intervals to distinguish and mentally transpose. So, I need to write a piano transposition and see the notes in their correct tonality before I can think about the orchestration.

Wow, and Oy!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #83 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:03:05 AM »

And a very happy anniversary to the DR Druxys!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #84 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:03:55 AM »

Quote from: Jane on April 29, 2014, 09:19:01 AM

Hmmm, I have an interesting private message on Facebook:
HELLO JANE U CAN REMEMBER ME OK AND U CAN STAY IN CONTACT WITH ME IF U LIKE OK. IF U LIKE TO TXT LET ME KNOW I CAN GIVE U MY CELL OK. NICE TO MEET U JANE.

Wow! Go for it!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #85 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:06:04 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on April 29, 2014, 05:36:26 AM

Happy Birthday to The Vixter. I am you have a truly wonderful day. I cannot wait to hear what amazing present your parents got for you.

(Note to self: Don't forget to give the Vixfamily your birthday and Christmas list like you did last year.)

Dan M · « **Reply #86 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:06:25 AM »

GUIDE TO SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS by Committee on Un-American Activities (1962):

"What is a Communist Front?"

Dan M · « **Reply #87 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:08:55 AM »

MIRACLES OF THE GODS: A HARD LOOK AT THE SUPERNATURAL by Erich von Daniken (1974):

"Unfortunately I have never witnessed a vision."

Dan M · « **Reply #88 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:11:59 AM »

THE BIBLE:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1, KJV)

Ginny · « **Reply #89 on:** April 29, 2014, 11:23:39 AM »

Anniversary wishes for DR Druxy and Sandy!

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