Melkor

Hi.

i was sitting on the toilet for the past few days. sorry about that but it couldn't be helped.

there are more different cultural and ethnic groups in australia now than ever before but i think that for the most part they stay separate and often disagree. it is pleasant for us that things are peaceful here but we are still maintaining an aggressive military force in the middle east and nobody seems to care that much.

i can tell that you love literature! your reading is far more sophisticated than mine was when i was 19. i barely grasped a thing wilde was on about until recently. i've read the pearl and east of eden but not of mice and men. i've read LOTR but when i tried to read the silmarillion at about 15 i didn't understand it at all and didn't try again. the only dickens i've read apart from christmas carol is great expectations and i shamefully haven't read any hardy at all. the russian lit i've read only goes as far as the master and margarita, anna karenina, and lolita. i haven't read milton or dante although with the best of intentions i own copies of paradise lost and inferno. did you like yeats and frankenstein? my degree has been okay, no big deal. i mainly did it because i loved literature but also because i needed something worthwhile to focus on at that time. i mostly feel that it has given me a basic introduction to literature and ways of reading it. i have found it worthwhile but i think i might have been able to get as much or more out of reading lit theory and criticism on my own.

can you really read too much for your own good? i really think that if you want to be a writer, you can't read enough. i think all writers have been readers. i really don't believe a creative writing degree can teach anything beyond that you have to actually WRITE in order to be a writer, and that it's necessary to draft and redraft work. how can anyone write anything meaningful without having focused on the history and works of the medium they're producing in? how would you even know what you were saying? it's like painting a picture without knowing what a canvas is. if you can't learn how to write from reading, you probably can't learn it at all. but people are always telling me how wrong i am about that.

sorry dude, mad couple of days, get back to you later!

haha..I shall post a clip when I get the chance!!

Im feeling a bit better lol..<3

Thank you good sir

Have you watched Spirited Away? At the end of the movie there's a train track surrounded by water. I live near a park that also has a river near train tracks. It feels like a fantasy world.

When I'm at the park, I feel so small. Even in a crowded suburb between New York and Philadelphia, there are still areas here where I can be completely alone, where nobody will ever see me. Nature finds ways to succeed, despite human civilization.

I dunno how you'd get me to Ireland but I'd like to come =D

I get weirded out when I take walks in a certain park near my home.

.....

Berserk?

...you don't read scanlations?

/looks at the other way

well, as far as intelligent, psychological thriller manga go, Death Note is without doubt one big of the most successful one. I think it inspired a lot of other similar manga.

What kind of manga do you prefer? Surely you like shiney cute cuddly mangas, no?

....oops. I hope I'm not spoiling anything. >_<

Well, I can see that, and in fact I went a little bit "this soon?" with Light's decision to offing her... Her supposed death wasn't shown anyway; but alas, Death Notes can't lie.

Me neither; anime wasn't my kind of thing so... I stick in reading books and mangas. Do you watch other anime?

Second thoughts of?

Misa is cute, albeit I feel terrible at her for utterly....dogged, so to speak.
Per female character, I like Naomi...uuh, Raye Penber's girlfriend. Too bad she died early.

...There's only one Light that's up for sex, and I think his pairing is a famous detective. Whom he killed.

uuuuh.... Thanks?
Aaah, tea. You remind me that I have to drink my green tea.

Anyway, your tea.
No, not unless you embrace the light. EMBRACE THE LIGHT.

that's cool that you're okay with ireland. the way you put it does sound beautiful. australia is beautiful also and hardly the worst place in the world to be but i feel pretty bad about living here at times because british invasion has screwed up its indigenous people so completely. it makes me a kind of parasite really.

the sermon part is pretty brutally coherent though! but i know what you mean about the distorted and fragmentary style. it's vastly different from victorian authors, who had come from a background where biblical truths were being challenged by fossil evidence or whatever etc., and were kind of desperately clinging onto (or compromising with) the certainty of stable knowable truths in their know-all precision and the ratification of their godlike omniscient narrators. i kind of like the way it chooses to totally dispose of that tradition of condescending to "teach" readers that the world is coherent. but i am ranting (and guessing - i've never studied it formally). i definitely share your philosophy on taking as much as it's possible to take away from reading something.

there's no need to respect me for having read portrait if that's what you mean. it's not remarkable that i have read it as i am one unit of work away from a lit degree. if anything you should hate on me for not having read ulysses, which is sitting in my cupboard along with stacks of other unread tomes i'm slowly masticating.

what kind of writing do you do?

aah, I'm still............. bland? Usually I'd be "OMGed", but now you don't know how glad I am hearing your words.

I didn't say anything about muffin eating, however ?

....you baffle me, dear fluffy ball of sulkiness. Just saying.

Anyway, long time no see; how're you doing?

She's around, she's been busy. I was visiting her from Friday until Tuesday so she wasn't on the forums much then. Right now she's working and has been really tired from that. What should you be writing?

Who's weird? I'm good, a little sleepy at the moment but sleep is overrated. How are you?

Normally I would know but right now I'm not feeling very nice. lol