Literature Discussion Group: First post!!!

22 October 2011

First post!!!

I decided i NEEDED to post ( So b-nice wasn't the only one posting. )

And also I was wondering how far every one is in the book...

(Sorry that post was so short. )

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ZeroOctober 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM
I am on chapter 2 I think.

And she wasn't the only one posting it was me and her =P

Good to see more people posting.

What do you think about the book so far? How far in are you?
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CloverOctober 25, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Um.... i'm reading it on a kindle, so i am 6 percent through... i have no idea what chapter i'm on.

Its pretty good i guess. It will get better when it gets creepy :)
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ZeroOctober 27, 2011 at 11:58 AM
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ZeroOctober 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM
There needs to be a "Edit comment" Ability.

Who are you? =P (I have a few guesses)

6% hmmm I have no idea how far that would be.

Are you liking it?
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b-niceNovember 7, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Yay, OAB! Good to see another post. Zero, though you've "commented," which is greatly appreciated and equally valuable, this is the first official "post" by someone other than me (and I am thrilled to see it). I'm hoping more people will be inclined to put their thoughts right on the front page like this soon.
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Looking For Hamlet Scholar Talk

This is another event at the PPL in March in honor of the First Folio Exhibit, and it's on Wednesday, March 9th from 12-1:30pm in the Rines Auditorium.

"Focusing on Hamlet, University of Southern Maine Professor Ben Bertram will examine the way editors, directors, actors, teachers, and scholars choose among folio, quarto, or conflated versions of the plays. He will also be accompanied by actors who will perform Hamlet’s soliloquies and join in a discussion of how Shakespeare’s words make it from the page to the stage."

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Definitions and Clarifications

pneumatic, adj. - literally, full of air. This term is often used to describe women in BNW, and seems to suggest that a woman like Lenina, who's "wonderfully pneumatic," is buxom, curvy, shapely, and yes, even bouncy. But pneumatic could also have a second meaning here, and that is to indicate that someone is a bit of an air-head, light on the intellectual matter, or not bogged down by weighty matters or considerations.

viviparous, adj. - a creature that is viviparous gives birth to live young that develop inside the body, as in the way mammals reproduce. Humans are viviparous (at least, they were until A.F. 632).

Malthusian, adj. - based on the beliefs of Robert Thomas Malthus, a British economist who argued that "population tends to increase faster than food supply, with inevitably disastrous results unless the increase in population is checked by moral restraints or by war, famine, and disease." - The Free Dictionary

Pavlovian Conditioning, n. - also called Classic Conditioning, it's a way of getting a subject to make certain associations between two previously unrelated things; Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was the psychologist who discovered that if he always rang a bell right before feeding his dogs, they came to associate the sound of the bell with getting fed, and therefore would start to drool upon hearing the bell. Here's a great comic related to that experiment.

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22 October 2011

First post!!!

5 comments: