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Started by Syt, June 06, 2012, 10:16:13 AM

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Syt

June 06, 2012, 10:16:13 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Razgovory

#1
June 06, 2012, 10:18:29 AM
 :(  Son of a bitch.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Josephus

#2
June 06, 2012, 10:53:20 AM
Honestly I didn't know he was still around.

But yeah.  :(
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

The Brain

#3
June 06, 2012, 10:58:22 AM
 :(
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Habbaku

#4
June 06, 2012, 10:58:46 AM
One more crotchety old man dies.  RIP.   :(
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garbon

#5
June 06, 2012, 11:23:25 AM
:(
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Pedrito

#6
June 06, 2012, 04:40:04 PM
 :(

L.
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Duque de Bragança

#7
June 06, 2012, 05:10:02 PM Last Edit: June 06, 2012, 05:26:46 PM by Duque de Bragança
 Damn  :(

jimmy olsen

#8
June 06, 2012, 05:13:20 PM
He was a great one. :(
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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mongers

#9
June 06, 2012, 05:16:12 PM
 :(

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/all-of-my-friends-were-on-shelves-above.html

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Ray Bradbury was an outspoken supporter of libraries throughout his career, and the following letter to the assistant director of Fayetteville Public Library — in which he explains the race to write the novella upon which Fahrenheit 451 was eventually based — perfectly illustrates why. The letter was written in 2006 in response to a city-wide "Big Read," in which Bradbury's classic novel was studied.

Transcript follows.
(Source: Fayetteville Public Library; Image: Ray Bradbury, via Random House.)

QuoteSeptember 15, 2006

Dear Shawna Thorup:

I'm glad to hear that you good people will be celebrating my book, "Fahrenheit 451." I thought you might want to hear how the first version of it, 25,000 words and which appeared in a magazine, got done.

I needed an office and had no money for one. Then one day I was wandering around U.C.L.A. and I heard typing down below in the basement of the library. I discovered there was a typing room where you could rent a typewriter for ten cents a half hour. I moved into the typing room along with a bunch of students and my bag of dimes, which totaled $9.80, which I spent and created the 25,000 word version of "The Fireman" in nine days. How could I have written so many words so quickly? It was because of the library. All of my friends, all of my loved ones, were on the shelves above and shouted, yelled and shrieked at me to be creative. So I ran up and down the stairs, finding books and quotes to put in my "Fireman" novella. You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves. It was the perfect way to be creative; that's what the library does.

I hope you enjoy reading my passionate output, which became larger a few years later and became popular, thank God, with a lot of people.

I send you all my good wishes,

(Signed)


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Siege

#10
June 06, 2012, 07:16:12 PM
Martian Chronicles, The illistrated man and Farenheait 451 were some of the most influencial literature in my early life.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

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Josephus

#11
June 06, 2012, 09:08:29 PM
They obviously didn't help you learn to spell though. ;)
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Eddie Teach

#12
June 06, 2012, 09:41:18 PM
Quote from: Siege on June 06, 2012, 07:16:12 PM
Martian Chronicles, The illistrated man and Farenheait 451 were some of the most influencial literature in my early life.

Clearly you got over it.  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Siege

#14
June 07, 2012, 07:24:37 AM
Quote from: Josephus on June 06, 2012, 09:08:29 PM
They obviously didn't help you learn to spell though. ;)

I read it in Hebrew. I don't think I could read English back then.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"
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