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Old 02-13-2021, 11:08 PM   #9921 (permalink)
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5.What has been the worst thing about the pandemic for you?

A friend died.
Very sorry for the loss of your friend, Frown.
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1. What film do you wish they had/hadn't made a sequel to, and why?
Godfather III has no place in the canon and was pretty awful, imo.

2. If you could have any dinosaur as a pet, which would it be and why?
Dino on The Flintstones. Are cartoons allowed? Because I’d be way too chicken around a real dinosaur or reptile.

3. Have you ever tried taking up some hobby you found you were terrible at, and if so, what was it? If not, is there anything you would like to take up but don't think you'd be good at?
Tried playing violin but was hopeless - I just didn’t have the dexterity to play something that seemed upside-down to me, lol. I’m hopeless on any bowed instrument, actually. Also, I've never been able to jump rope, lol.

4. Who is the most vulnerable person you know, physically, emotionally or otherwise? Note: you're free to exercise any discretion/privacy you want on this question, or indeed skip it entirely. No triggering intended.
My best friend’s son, who is like a nephew to me, has high-functioning autism/schizoaffective disorder/bipolar disorder and has suffered terribly his entire life. He’s a sensitive soul and often the target of jokes by “friends”, acquaintances and strangers. Hardly a week goes by where he doesn’t cry in frustration. If I have any hate in my heart, it’s for the people who hurt him.

5. What has been the worst thing about the pandemic for you?
My daughter had quite a serious case of COVID/pneumonia in both lungs in Dec/Jan. She’s much better now, but it was a frightening experience. Like many others, my son and I had moderate COVID earlier last year.

6. If there's a power cut, what do you do to pass the time?
Read - by natural daylight and by candlelight.
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Old 02-14-2021, 04:02 AM   #9922 (permalink)
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5. What has been the worst thing about the pandemic for you?
I guess the same things others have mentioned. Isolation is no big deal for me though. I don't feel things like loneliness very often.
That's interesting, I do mind the isolation because I miss going into the outside world and seeing people irl, but as long as I have any kind of contact with friends I don't feel lonely. I need very little to feel like people are part of my life.
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Tried playing violin but was hopeless - I just didn’t have the dexterity to play something that seemed upside-down to me, lol. I’m hopeless on any bowed instrument, actually. Also, I've never been able to jump rope, lol.
Oh I've never been able to jump rope either!.

And reading in the light of an oil lamp/outside is the greatest pleasure. Especially when you're camping on a summer night, with the sound of crickets
I wish the weather would always allow being outside 24/7 and sleeping in a hammock
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I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.
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Old 02-14-2021, 07:01 AM   #9923 (permalink)
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Yes that one's also very apt The Magic Mountain is unassailable! I'm reading Ulysses right now, coincidentally, but I'm going through it very slowly because I decided I want to do it the thorough way, which is hard work but very rewarding.

If I would pick a book I haven't read yet it would definitely be In Search of Lost Time too
I read The Magic Mountain too, and enjoyed the way it loses you in the curious other-wordly world of the sanatorium. But then I read The Rack by A.E.Ellis and realised that T Mann had done little to convey the special slow Hell that was life in a TB clinic:

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Never tried Ulysses myself, but I applaud your choice of In Search of Lost Time - good option, I imagine.
(Thanks also for encouraging me more to read War and Peace)

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Of course you can! I'd be happy if you listed three different ones every day, Lisna. I need to expand my reading list.
That's a very kind comment, ribbons, which gives me a welcome excuse to blah on about books:

Spoiler for some books:
First, a comment on one I already chose:
Eyeless in Gaza is a page-turning novel of ideas, as characters argue over the purpose of life and lurch through not just the real world but all the moral dilemmas it throws at us. Crucial tip, imo: Huxley cut and shuffled the chronological sequence, giving each chapter a date. This makes it a very difficult read, as in the middle of the book you see the date and struggle to remember: are these people still in love or have they already divorced? You really asked too much of the reader, Aldous, but luckily there is a remedy: go through all the dates, note down the page numbers, then read the story in its chronological order. So much more enjoyable!

Taking up your invitation, ribbons, these are good books too:-

The Outsider by Colin Wilson analyses eccentrics from Dostoyevski to Lawrence of Arabia and puts them all into some framework of ideas that I've rather forgotten. Hence why it's worth rereading.(Warning: This book may contain Existential ideas )
The White Nile and companion volume The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead. Non-fiction account of larger-than-life Victorian weirdos trampling across Africa and misunderstanding the bizarre, isolated native cultures they came across.
The Collected Stories of Willian Trevor: at 1200 pages, it'll give us quite a few hours of reading. Light, charming portraits of ordinary people, but in every short story WT squeezes in some heartwarming or tragic details that makes the characters live on (in my head at least) for years after reading.
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Oh interesting, I'd never heard of the Rack!
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1. What film do you wish they had/hadn't made a sequel to, and why?

I could probably have done without The Matrix Revolutions, but there just was no need for The Lost World: Jurassic Park or Predator 2. I'm not so sure about Doctor Sleep either, but the one that really should not have been made was Speed 2: Cruise Control. They took everything that was good about the original movie and put it at sea. Why?


2. If you could have any dinosaur as a pet, which would it be and why?

Grimlock or the dinosaur from Toy Story



3. Have you ever tried taking up some hobby you found you were terrible at, and if so, what was it? If not, is there anything you would like to take up but don't think you'd be good at?

Made an ill-advised attempt to learn to play the keyboards. Yeah.

4. Who is the most vulnerable person you know, physically, emotionally or otherwise? Note: you're free to exercise any discretion/privacy you want on this question, or indeed skip it entirely. No triggering intended.

Karen, duh.

5. What has been the worst thing about the pandemic for you?

Probably not being able to just go out to get things as needed (milk, eggs, a spare clip for my Destructon 2000) and having to plan the entire week's shopping around one day. Also getting up mega-early (for me) to do that shopping.

and all the deaths, of course.

Also, the final proof, if any were needed, of how doggedly, stubbornly stupid the human race is.

6. If there's a power cut, what do you do to pass the time?

Read or perhaps write. Pet and cuddle Eddie, talk to Karen, listen to the radio.
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That's a very kind comment, ribbons, which gives me a welcome excuse to blah on about books:

Spoiler for some books:
First, a comment on one I already chose:
Eyeless in Gaza is a page-turning novel of ideas, as characters argue over the purpose of life and lurch through not just the real world but all the moral dilemmas it throws at us. Crucial tip, imo: Huxley cut and shuffled the chronological sequence, giving each chapter a date. This makes it a very difficult read, as in the middle of the book you see the date and struggle to remember: are these people still in love or have they already divorced? You really asked too much of the reader, Aldous, but luckily there is a remedy: go through all the dates, note down the page numbers, then read the story in its chronological order. So much more enjoyable!

Taking up your invitation, ribbons, these are good books too:-

The Outsider by Colin Wilson analyses eccentrics from Dostoyevski to Lawrence of Arabia and puts them all into some framework of ideas that I've rather forgotten. Hence why it's worth rereading.(Warning: This book may contain Existential ideas )
The White Nile and companion volume The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead. Non-fiction account of larger-than-life Victorian weirdos trampling across Africa and misunderstanding the bizarre, isolated native cultures they came across.
The Collected Stories of Willian Trevor: at 1200 pages, it'll give us quite a few hours of reading. Light, charming portraits of ordinary people, but in every short story WT squeezes in some heartwarming or tragic details that makes the characters live on (in my head at least) for years after reading.
Lisna, thanks so much for the book recommendations - I love your bite-sized reviews, and on the strength of your recommendations I'll have you know that I ordered used copies every book on your list, including Eyeless. So fairly soon I'll have a *Lisnaholic* section on my bookshelves! It may take me a long time to read all of these, but I'm determined. Thanks again!
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Oh I've never been able to jump rope either!.
I always jump too high and get entangled in the rope by the time I come back down!
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Lisna, thanks so much for the book recommendations - I love your bite-sized reviews, and on the strength of your recommendations I'll have you know that I ordered used copies every book on your list, including Eyeless. So fairly soon I'll have a *Lisnaholic* section on my bookshelves! It may take me a long time to read all of these, but I'm determined. Thanks again!
Wow! I consider that a very high honour, ribbons! Thank you very much for trusting my recs. I just hope they don't disappoint, that they're not too much "books for boys", and will appeal to you too.
Please let me know how you get on with them.
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Wow! I consider that a very high honour, ribbons! Thank you very much for trusting my recs. I just hope they don't disappoint, that they're not too much "books for boys", and will appeal to you too.
Please let me know how you get on with them.
They could never disappoint, Lisna. Btw, I just opened the door and found a package containing Eyeless In Gaza and The Outsider. Super-fast delivery! And no worries - "books for boys" don't faze me **flexes muscles**.

Thanks again - these *Lisnaholic Picks* will take pride of place on the shelves here.
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