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20 Jun 2019, 6:11 pm

Yep. I know it looks larger LOL

But it is only 17 storeys!



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20 Jun 2019, 6:15 pm

1. There's a fairly large party in my house right now.

2. I'm outside with twinkle lights.

3. There are three dogs here right now.


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20 Jun 2019, 6:18 pm

I would say #2. You're really not into "twinkle lights," I sense.



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20 Jun 2019, 6:22 pm

I am into twinkle lights, but I guess I gave them the wrong word! They don't flash on and off; they're just little faerie lights that glow without flashing. I use faerie lights or candles at night, because I don't like light bulbs.

1 and 2 are true. :P

3 is my lie. There's only one dog here.


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20 Jun 2019, 6:26 pm

1. I once wrote a paper on "Ode to a Grecian Urn."

2. I once wrote a paper on "Ode to Melancholy."

3. I once wrote a paper on "The Nun's Priest's Tale."



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20 Jun 2019, 6:27 pm

2 for The Wolf Man.


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20 Jun 2019, 6:30 pm

Nope. It's #1.

I read a biography of Keats so I can find out the inspiration behind "Ode to Melancholy." My assignment was to find the literary antecedents.

1. I read "The Pigman" in high school for a class.

2. I read "Death of a Salesman" in high school for a class.

3. I read "Catcher in the Rye" in high school for a class.



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20 Jun 2019, 6:31 pm

2 again

1. My cat howls like a wolf.

2. My wolf howls like a cat.

3. My dog howls like a dog.


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20 Jun 2019, 6:35 pm

It's #3. I read "Catcher in the Rye" a few times in my high school years---but I never had it for a class.

I had "Death of a Salesman" in 9th grade. I was absolutely immersed in it at the time.

I had "The Pigman" in a class around 10th grade. I was into it----but not as much as "Death of a Salesman."



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20 Jun 2019, 7:02 pm

#1?

I knew you had a pet wolf somewhere :wink:



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20 Jun 2019, 7:04 pm

Nope, my cat howls like a madman because of a thyroid issue.

My lie is 3 because my dog doesn't howl.


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21 Jun 2019, 3:23 pm

I've just been eating white chocolate.

I've just finished a glass of cognac.

The philosopher Denis Diderot converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity.



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21 Jun 2019, 3:25 pm

I choose not to give away your lie! :lol:



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21 Jun 2019, 3:29 pm

Redxk wrote:
I choose not to give away your lie! :lol:

But you know where it's from, don't you?



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21 Jun 2019, 3:36 pm

Yes. Sacerdotal evisceration comes to mind.



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21 Jun 2019, 3:49 pm

It's from the "unfortunate gathering" at the beginning of Brothers Karamazov.

Fyodor Karamazov speaking to Father Zossima:

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“…I’m like the philosopher, Diderot, your reverence. Did you ever hear, most Holy Father, how Diderot went to see the Metropolitan Platon, in the time of the Empress Catherine? He went in and said straight out, ‘There is no God.’ To which the great bishop lifted up his finger and answered, ‘The fool has said in his heart there is no God'. And he fell down at his feet on the spot. ‘I believe,’ he cried, ‘and will be christened.’ And so he was. Princess Dashkov was his godmother, and Potyomkin his godfather.”
“Fyodor Pavlovitch, this is unbearable! You know you’re telling lies and that that stupid anecdote isn’t true. Why are you playing the fool?” cried Miusov in a shaking voice.
“I suspected all my life that it wasn’t true,” Fyodor Pavlovitch cried with conviction. “But I’ll tell you the whole truth, gentlemen. Great elder! Forgive me, the last thing about Diderot’s christening I made up just now. I never thought of it before. I made it up to add piquancy. I play the fool, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, to make myself agreeable. Though I really don’t know myself, sometimes, what I do it for. And as for Diderot, I heard as far as ‘the fool hath said in his heart’ twenty times from the gentry about here when I was young. I heard your aunt, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, tell the story. They all believe to this day that the infidel Diderot came to dispute about God with the Metropolitan Platon….”