To the darling slaves of psycho-babble .

footfootfoot · 07-11-2006, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Thankfully, Don Quixote uses punctuation properly (in both languages.)

Not to mention Cervantes.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-11-2006, 10:31 PM

I don't remember buddug giving you people permission to talk among yourselves.........I'm tellin'. :p

Stormieweather · 07-11-2006, 11:12 PM

07-12-2006, 08:24 AM

Wolf , I have been giving some thought to this . The fact is that I have never learnt to type formally on any sort of machine . I learnt how to write with a quill , and my teachers always insisted on us leaving a space the width of our forefinger between the last letter of the sentence and the full stop . And the another forefinger between the full stop and the first letter of the next sentence .

I may seem like a sad anachronism , but at least the finger spaces are those corresponding to my old skinny kid fingers . Imagine if I wrote using the fat bloated fingers I now possess . It would look like this . Terrible . Even worse . Far worse .

Footfootfoot , you are right of course , but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .

Elspode · 07-12-2006, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddug

... but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .

I was really impressed by Ed Ames' reading of "The Impossible Dream". Do you know if Cervantes liked Ames' version better, or Jim Nabors' rendition?

07-11-2006, 10:31 PM	#2
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07-11-2006, 11:12 PM	#3
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07-12-2006, 08:24 AM	#4
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Wolf , I have been giving some thought to this . The fact is that I have never learnt to type formally on any sort of machine . I learnt how to write with a quill , and my teachers always insisted on us leaving a space the width of our forefinger between the last letter of the sentence and the full stop . And the another forefinger between the full stop and the first letter of the next sentence . I may seem like a sad anachronism , but at least the finger spaces are those corresponding to my old skinny kid fingers . Imagine if I wrote using the fat bloated fingers I now possess . It would look like this . Terrible . Even worse . Far worse . Footfootfoot , you are right of course , but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .

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