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Language Liberalism Freethought Birds

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.

The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Happy (Belated) Birthday, JRR!

Yes - 105 years ago yesterday was the birthday of JRR Tolkien.

I like LOTR much better than the Hobbit, to be honest, and I enjoy the poetry collections and like to browse the Silmarillon... I read the novel yearly, and have it in several translations - I particularly like the Ukrainian translation I have.

Here's a comic strip about the movies - which I thought were fabulously done (see this link for the whole sequence):

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Anonymous11:53 AM, March 22, 2007
Nice blogs
HI, iM a Malaysian student in ukraine struggling with russian :)
u seem like a very interesting person..mind if we get to noe each other??
flavea_xander@yahoo.com.sg
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