A Most Peculiar Mademoiselle

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“When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
~Desiderius Erasmus

"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Like maybe you survive."
~Doctor Who

"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy."
~Scrubs

"When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl - you find someone to carry you."
~Firefly

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
~Mark Twain

"Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he’s just a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That’s like saying, “He can’t climb that mountain, he’s just a man”, or “That’s not a diamond, it’s just a rock.” Just."
~Finding Neverland

"Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don’t make any sense at all."
~How I Met Your Mother

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healingmachine.livejournal.com) wrote on September 7th, 2009 at 01:37 pm

I know, I know. I normally am such a lazy reader but I was hooked on this from start to finish. I spent most of my birthday reading it :D It talks about allegorical references as well, what influenced and what didn't, and Tolkien's own views on Hitler and the Atomic Bomb!! They have letters from him to his sons!! Sorry, I'm so happy I have someone else I can geek out about this stuff to :D

Amazon is a very strange site. I bought an American copy of Lost from them and had to watch it on my PS2 or it wouldn't show in colour XD Ah, modern technology.

People complain about the lack of in-depth characters?! Um. Well, okay. Frodo was the most independant and original character of them all so whatevers. I found the explanations for the inspiration behind Eowyn, Luthien and Galadriel really amazing too. So yeah. It's very wordy but it's an incredible book. Sorry to bang on about it XD

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