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Adam J. M. Eagleton
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There must be SOME nerdfighters who can't get enough of Sherlock. There's so very much to adore. He is a wholly brilliant character who possesses phenomenal mental powers and a fascinating personality, and does his utmost to see justice prevail.
Wonderful poem, and thank you for posting it because I'm attempting to build up my poetry library and Tales from Ovid is definately on my list of what to buy with my next paycheck :]
My synesthetic associations have never changed (as far as I can recall), but I can certainly see how they could, especially when one is very young and one's neural connections are developing. Perhaps it takes a few years for synesthetic associations…
First of all, I would only incorporate synesthesia if it were a natural element. Does your character actually have synesthesia naturally, or is it simply to make the story more interesting? Is it necessary, does it serve a form of purpose? People wi…
It sounds exactly like synesthesia to me. :)
For me, 3 is quiet and a little bizarre. She's bright yellow and rather slow, but friendly.
8 is male, dark bluish-purple and a bit like an old British army General. I imagine him with a grey moustache and a bumbling manner.
V is medium purple, fe…
1. The full stop.
2. When People Capitalise Every Word In A Sentence For No Reason.
3. I use far too many parentheses. It's not entirely a mistake, though.
This is a group for those who are or have been homeschooled, to exchange experiences as life can be so different if you do not grow up within the school system.
"a fish riding a bicycle"
(This is a superb book, by the way.)
It's really just a question of boundaries. A person with a wheel attached to them is not a bicycle, nor is a person with two wheels. If you gradually replaced their body parts with those of a bicycle, there must come a point when they either cease b…
For all of us who admire Edmund, feel sorry for Percy, smile absent-mindedly at Baldrick and laugh with George!
"Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world" — Sherlock Holmes
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- What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?
- Literature, classical music, theoretical physics and recreational dendropyrochronology nerdfighter.
- About Me:
- Adam John Matthew Eagleton is a twelve minute piano composition written by an anonymous Belgian tailor. It has been performed only once, in 1924, after which one-hundred-and-forty-eight people died from internal haemorrhaging, five hundred people spent the next several years in comas, thirty-seven people were paralysed from the knee upwards and four people felt a bit poorly. One person was fine.
- Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more
- Plays (Chekhov), Crow (Hughes), The Cement Garden (McEwan), The Inimitable Jeeves (Wodehouse), The Invisible Man (Wells), Blindness (Saramago), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Adams), The Devil's Dictionary (Bierce), Legion (Harsent), Moab is my Washpot (Fry), Three Men in a Boat (Jerome), Can a Robot be Human? (Cave), The Oxford Book of English Verse (Ricks), The Harry Potter Series (Rowling), and a large amount of others.
- What's your favorite thing to put on your head?
- A top hat.
- If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?
- Stephen Fry.
- Website:
- http://elatedmangojam.tumblr.com/
- When did you start watching B20
- November
Bits and bobs of a certain amount of interest.
The Siren by Waterhouse.
Clairvoyance by Magritte.
Showering Leaflets on rue Henri-Monnier by Doisneau.
Acqua Mossa by Klimt.
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- At 6:12am on September 6, 2009,
Megan said… - "Did you watch the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights the other day? I thought it was rather good, as period dramas go." I did watch it, yes, and though it was excellent, actually. I've tried to read Wuthering Heights roughly seven times, and I have never managed to finish it. Perhaps it is not for me. At least I know how it ends, now, anyway. ;) I thought Cathy was beautiful, and everyone had the accents down very well. Also, I would really like to go and live at the Heights; the moors were absolutely beautiful.
I'm attempting to learn this one at the moment:
It's hard work, but I like to challenge myself on the piano. Also, a friend of mine has asked me if I could accompany him with this piece:
So when the music arrives with him he'll get it to me. He heard me playing the piano one morning because it was the day after a party and everyone had slept over except I hadn't actually gone to sleep, so I was trying to stay awake. Apparently people were impressed. I sounded like I was drunk, I was so tired. Apparently they're playing the second movement too fast in this version, though. Should be interesting.
Celebration was fantastic. I loved seeing Sophie Okonedo in it, as well, she's such a brilliant actress and so beautiful. Thank you for the recommendations, I shall have to find the time to read some of them.
"but I'll most likely become the mad old poet who totters down to the post office to buy a newspaper and humbugs every day, and to whom nobody speaks because he lashes out at everyone. We'll see, I suppose." I do wonder what I'll be like, as well, when I'm old, or middle-aged, or whatever. Although unless something has gone disastrously wrong, Adam, I highly doubt you'll be alone when you're old, if only for a large collection of crazed people off the street who are amazed at your pulchritude or crazed fans of your poetry. Although I should think by then you'll have found a nice woman, as well. Or man. Who knows? The future is a mysteryyyy.. *voice drifts off*
"I heard him reading it on the Poetry Archive" Ah, I listened to that as well. It was excellent.
"I tend to look on Hughes's infidelity as a kind of wretched compulsion." Yes, dear me. I have sympathy for him, but only a limited amount. There's only so far I can manage going with the whole 'Poor you, you ruined your own marriage' thing. But there we are. People will be people.
A few of the private schools that I have friends at have gone back, and a few more state schools, but not loads. I go back on Wednesday next week, which I'm looking forward to. It's quite nice not having any work to do, but I'd really rather be studying.
I do indeed love Roethke now. I've been reading a few of his poems online, and I shall get some out of the school library when I'm back on Wednesday. Are you reading anything in particular at the moment? Oh, and how are you getting on with Asturias on the piano?
- At 10:32am on September 2, 2009,
Chiburger said… - *dramatic squirrel moment* (to understand, watch this 5-second video)
You... gave me a Beast sandwich. *Looks at you happily with tears in my eyes* I'm so touched. In return, please accept this Super Epic Rainbow Cake.
SuperheroMegaCheeseburgerDistributor 2000? Uhm, YEAH! I wonder how it will look... *starts planning and tries to do happydance in seat*
- At 9:55am on September 1, 2009,
Chiburger said…
- At 8:55am on August 24, 2009,
Chiburger said…
- Aaah, Elated mango jam is splendid! xD HAHA. I had no idea that was an anagram for your name!
And hey, speaking of Goodreads, I saw this book on your shelf recently, The Da Vinci Notebooks. What is that? I mean, is it copies of his notebooks, or is it just his f.ex. texts rewritten in the book? (I'm not completely sure that made sense, so let me know ^^D)
I didn't know you were a vegetarian, I'm terribly sorry about the cheeseburger-cravings I've inflicted upon you. To my defense, it wasn't intentional, and let's be frank about this (not in the sense of acting like Frank, but as in blunt, forthright or free-spoken), I can't do anything about it :)
- At 9:36am on August 22, 2009,
Megan said…
- Questionsss.
Have you read Wuthering Heights?
No, I think that was actually my only question. There we are.
I've decided to attempt to learn to play this:
It's brilliant, isn't it. I love how calm Irena looks when she's playing it, like la la la I do this all the time..
And this one, too. I needed some more music, so I went on a Chopin spree online. ;)
- At 6:00am on August 22, 2009,
Chiburger said…
- I'm reading Arthur & George now! It is brilliant. I got such a shock when realized who Arthur really was! (A terribly pleasant shock ;]) So, thank you tremendously for making me more inclined (more determined) to read it. (Come to think of it, I'm not even sure you were aware of it, but thanks anyway ;D)
Also, Danny made me create a tumblr. It truly is addictive. :) I'm Sense Delirium (Which just by the way is an anagram to Susie Melinder). Just started following you, so you know. (Oh dear, why does all this sounds so stalker-ishly frightening?) OH, *Buggers off*
- At 6:26am on August 21, 2009,
Megan said…
- Any particular Pinter that I should read, then?
It's a beautiful song, isn't it. She has a fantastic voice. She also has like the cutest laugh ever; you can probably find an interview or something with her talking on youtube, she giggles so sweetly. You're welcome. :)
Oh, old people are sweet. I hate the idea of being one though, it seems so.. undignified. Although Gillian Clark and Germaine Greer are both seventy, I think, and certainly not 'old people' in any manner of speaking. During the GCSE exam period, my friend and I were walking into town from our school in the morning (we both have to catch buses in the morning and had to wait until the afternoon for our exams; our school is almost in the centre of Burgess Hill) and there was an old blind man walking in the centre of one side of the road. About half the cars just slowed down and nobody did anything, so we walked over to him and took him very gently by the arm and got him to the pavement, what with being very good girls and upholding the school's reputation in our blazers; some woman had parked by the side of the road to go and help him, so then we kept walking. My friend was quite upset by it, though; she pointed out that he might be a war veteran for all we know, and he was reduced to that, and how many people had just driven past him and left him there without caring. It was a bit depressing, really, having to think about being old.
Bloody Classic FM. Before our music GCSE exam we kept trying to get them to play pieces that were relevant to our listening skills, but they never did. Also, every time I listen to it they seem to be playing The Lark Ascending I think it's called, on the violin. Oh, and I heard one simply horrendous version of of Mozart's Rondo alla turca with brass.. it was very odd. I haven't listened to the radio in a while. We should join together and lobby Classic FM to start playing decent music. ;)
Ah, my dad showed me the Moonlight Sonata parody, it's hilarious. Especially with the false endings; it's so true!
The Derek and Clive recording was brilliant. Not clever, no, but very funny. I love how about halfway through he goes 'So I said to him, you rotter.' After all of that. Peter Cook is very funny.
Oh, poor Einaudi.. it's so true. I love playing his pieces, though. Not so interesting to listen to, perhaps, but fun to play, and very good exercise for my hands. A Fuoco is fantastic and very different, you're right. I'm playing this a lot at the moment:
It's beeeaaaautiful.
My cat is so silly, he's trying to sit in my suitcase full of clothes.. anyway. Got a bit distracted there. ;)
Those poems were brilliant, particularly Mists. And ah, Ted Hughes. I read February 17th the other day, the poem about the dead lamb. I actually thought it was fantastic. I don't know whether it was the mood I was in or whether I'm just starting to appreciate his work more. Even weirder, I had a sudden rush of sympathy for him the other day; I was thinking how unimaginably distraught he must have been when Assia Wevill killed herself and their daughter. It must have been horrendous for him. Poor man. :( Obviously he's still a bit of a tosser, but still. You have to feel for him. It's a good thing that he wasn't still alive when his son killed himself, too, or it would have just been insane.
Ooh, that looks like a beautiful edition. :) My stepmother bought me a second hand copy of Othello with a good introduction at the beginning the other day. Amusingly, it used to belong to 'Niki [something illegible], L6' and as such has all sorts of random comments written on it in pencil. I might leave them there, I find reading other people's comments on things very interesting.
Oh, I have so many books to read.. things just aren't getting done any more. Everything seems to have ground to a halt. This is not very helpful. Also, it's my results day next week, which is scary and I might cry.
On the bright side, I'm writing more poetry and it seems to be getting a bit better, at least.
So what are you doing in terms of work at the moment?
- At 6:50am on August 9, 2009,
Megan said…
- Hmm, what did I think of Three Sisters. Interesting, and brilliant. I found it quite disturbing at the end when Baron Tuzenbach was killed and no one seemed to be quite bothered enough. It was very odd; there was initial upset, and then they all seemed to accept it and move on without much change to things. It scares me, the idea that someone can die and nothing will be greatly changed; everything will just keep going on after you die, and depending on how successful you are, you may have made no mark at all on the world; you might just become another meaningless life blending into the masses of living and dying non-stop and it might make absolutely no difference at all.
Well, that was happy. Honestly. Anyway.
"but the nonsense is packed with meaning, though. (I'm sure you know this, anyway.)" It's always best to say. Never take for granted that I know or understand something. :)
I've never seen nor read Howard's End, but from the Wikipedia entry it looks like it should be a fabulous film, given the actors in it. Have you read the book?
Mmm, peach iced tea. I haven't had iced tea in forever. I've only actually had pink lemonade once, as well.. mid year eleven kind of time, I think, in a club with my friends and some nice teachers where we discussed philosophy and things.
I seem to have forgotten to mention, in terms of drinks, how much I love milk. :) I'm so easily pleased when it comes to drinks. Orange juice, milk.. I'm happy.
Shamefully, I really know very little of The Beatles. I have a few friends who are completely obsessed with them, so I know a bit more than I might have done if it hadn't been for them, but still. I've Just Seen A Face is a brilliant song, as are the others. The songs I am obsessed with listening to at the moment are these:
One of her songs was used on Holby City (never underestimate my ability to watch awful television) and I thought it was amazing, and my cousin has her album, so I love it. It was this song they used:
I am also obsessed with this song, again from BBC 1 on an advert:
And also by them which I love:
As well as loving all the songs from Amelie and various other places. :)
That is a very excellent piece of information to know, about the speed of light. Unfortunately I also have much accumulated facts stored in my brain from QI, but they're not very helpful because no one else knows them and so they won't be taken as correct in the General Knowledge quiz my school does, which I generally get roped into doing. Not that I mind; there are heats inbetween years with two people representing each house, and my house won the year eleven one this year. Poppy and I were very proud indeed. People kept pointing out that we only won by one point, to which we replied 'shut up'. As a house we only came second in the big final, though, with four people from each house and I was on it. It was quite fun, really.
I don't think I really know any actual facts.. or I can't think of any, anyway. This is what I get for literally sleeping through science lessons. ;)
"In a boat on a river seems to be where I am most comfortable." It is nice, isn't it. Very calming. People tell me to calm down a lot, it's most irritating, especially when teachers I don't particularly like do it. It's not as easy as that, either. If they had to live in my head too, they'd know.
That Debussy sonata was fantastic. I preferred the first movement, but they were all wonderful. Speaking of which, I absolutely love this:
Gotta love Wilhelm Kempff. :D I can play it, but not that fast, and to a far less suitable degree of accuracy, really. And I'm impatient, so sometimes I skip bits, which is very naughty, but never mind. My hands aren't big enough to play it that fast, anyway. It's SO MUCH FUN, though.
I love Spike Milligan, but I've never watched The Goon Show, nor much of Peter Cook, although I have seen this, which is fantastic. I love how hard Spike Milligan has to try to keep a straight face in the earlier clip.
Oh my God, I've just listened to this and it's amazing..:
Having a musical comment today, apparently. ;) The bit with the descending violin scales.. oh, it's so amazing.
- At 6:20pm on July 31, 2009,
Alison Kubrick said… - Ohhh never mind that then. I need to stop assuming every white guy with a massive fro is Brian May.
- At 5:18pm on July 30, 2009,
Megan said…
- I have to say, probably the most amusing part of the holiday was swimming in the sea while my sister shrieked 'DON'T DRINK THE SEA WATER, IT'S FULL OF WHALE SPERM!!!1!1!!1!!' (1s intentional.) Highly amusing. I read Birdsong, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, The Great Gatsby and Three Sisters. It was quite nice being fairly removed from reality. I mistakenly went into the sea on one of the days when it was very windy and rough, and what with being quite insubstantial, got thrown on to the pebbles and now have cuts and scratches up one arm and nicks all over my palms. I got out quite quickly after that, although mostly because I was bleeding and couldn't stand up against the waves. It would have been nice other than that. Rained a bit, too. :)
What did you do while I was gone?
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