hello the sinisteR typeS! how have you all been? it's been a while eh? I kept thinking i should post but my lazy nature would always find excuses not to... then I read my LauRal's post today and it inspiRed me to write... LauRal mou, i loved the e.e.cummings' poem... but i think that there's a lesbian aura that's started surrounding spinister-ism... people might think that being single and maintaining this divine maid state is just a way to hide our homosexuality... well, let them think what they want... we're happy by ourselves, our spookydog and by sipping strawberry tea sitting at our porch commenting on the passers by, aren't we? cats? they're so last year darling!! not to mention le cupid that lives in our dungeon... and yes, laural told no lies, cupid's become a master indeed on chocolate maroon cakes and not only! But time has come for us to make the ultimate sacrifice... we have to be apart from cupid at least for a while until world peace's restored... you see, we believe that the only way to do that is by using cupid in ways you can't imagine... but you'll read all about it in our next spinisterine post... It's OctobeR already... tis been 3 months since i left fair ol' britain... i went to the british council the other day and they told me that i had a good chance of being accepted in glasgow's fine arts school... well, i'll have to pay some fees but i can manage hopefully... so my plans of moving there are still on... my mum, honey's aunt tasouli, will visit me in glasgow too and she's planning to amaze glaswegians with her spicy mediteranean cuisine!! A while ago someone wrote about me that i reminded them of Jane Austen... sorry i can't remember your name... I don't know if you meant that as a compliment, i can't really remember your post now, but i took it as a compliment coz i love miss austen... then i read my llew's post and Mark Twain's comments about austen and i thought i should reply to that too... You see you should always consider the era an author has lived in... besides that, i love the way austen writes about 19th century england... it's weird but whenever i feel depressed or scared i always go and take one of my austen books to read for the x-th time... i love re-reading them... i have them all... when my ex visited me recently he was really surprised to see that i had all her books!! he's never read any austen books and he thought, well, let's say that he agrees with mr twain's opinion... but austen's not simple... there's more under the surface... Sir Walter Scott wrote about Austen in 1816, "austen's work and her characters remind us of the flemish school of painting. Her themes are not always refined and, by no means, never pompous; but they're given in such a truthfulness and accuracy that pleases the reader". But i tend to agree with E.M. Forster, one of my fave authors, who wrote in 1923: "I do confess that i too belong in the party of Austenites and thus, being slightly stupefied with Jane Austen. Oh my slow-witted phraseology, the unbattered by fire on which i place it, how much they must enrage, let us say, a stevensonite! But Jane Austen is something else! She is my favourite author! I read and re-read her work, with my mouth open and my mind shut. Settled down in endless pleasure, I salute her by the name of the kindest hostess whilst the critical ability is asleep. The austenite has such an insignificant wit compared to the one that he so open-handedly attributes to his idol. Like the devoted christians that go to church so often that they stop paying any attention to the text."... and miss Virginia Woolf wrote that austen was the perfect woman author and that her talents were in a uniquely perfect balance... Ok, that's it for miss austen... sorry if i've bored you to tears with all that but one has to cherrish her (his) obsessions, right? and defend them when needed! My precious gingerfox told me that Jonathan Richman was playing in London on Saturday!! i was so so jealous... but it's my greedy nature that makes me jealous... I saw richman live twice... first time was 10 years ago and i was indeed (like sir w.scott would say) stupefied!! and i saw him again 4 years ago and it was weird but he looked as if not one day had passed by since the last time i had seen him... lucky londonsods! i hope you all went to that gig!! I'm wearing my old wranglers today in Jonathan's honour as he sings that "he never wears levis just wranglers!"!! That was all for now daaahlins! and by writting "dahling" it's just hit me!!! STAYC!!COME BACK SOON OR I'LL DISOWN YOU!! Take care the lot of you... Vel xxx PS: The PF!! I'll write to you soon... i'm sorry i haven't replied yet but i've been so very busy, not to mention that my internet connection at home's dead!! I miss talking with you loads... i've come up with some new ideas about music-genre-bastardisation that i think you'd appeciate!! the same goes for my Sally... about my delay in replying that is... PpS: Cabbagio big hugs!! and give my love to little spRout!! tell her that once i'm back we'll go dancing again... PppS: Happy BiRthday to all the october-children... Ppps: all of you uk-ers should go and see tompaulin live.. here are the dates: 24th october - mean fiddler,london(supporting cinerama) 25th october - oxford (venue as yet unknown) 31st october - the basement, chelmsford, bitterscene __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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