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[nny]

I remembered one of the things I forgot to say.

Piano-violin, vicodin-cocaine. Yes, I FINALLY worked it out. I am very SMRT. I have a degree, you know.

*headdesks quietly*

Went to the library today and wow. Wow. I had forgotten how much I love libraries. I got out The Devil's Mariner, which is another book about William Dampier, a historical perspective on Buddhism, a random book on Bosch and Eight Men and a Duck by Nick Thorpe. The beginning of the blurb of this last:

"On a fateful South American bus trip, Nick Thorpe overheard an improbable plan: to sail 2500 miles to Easter Island on a boat made of reeds. Intrigued, he blagged his way aboard the Viracocha, only to find himself with nagging questions. Why did his crewmates include a tree surgeon, a jewellery salesman and a bad-tempered waterfowl? What had happened to the navigator? And where was the life raft?"

See why I had to get it?

Meanwhile my dad is playing my childhood on the record player. It's very odd.

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to start following your taste in books. The one you leant me is proving engaging but I have to keep stopping and checking with people that I'm not Ignatius. Um. Because OBVIOUSLY resembling the protagonist is the only reason anyone ever lends anyone a book.

Why did his crewmates include a tree surgeon, a jewellery salesman and a bad-tempered waterfowl?

*sporfle*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Was not lent! Was present! :D

My sister got me the book for christmas one year and I have my own copy. Her boyfriend at the time said she should get me a deerstalker which, HEY! She got me Michael Rosen's Carrying the Elephant to go with, too. Considering I remember Michael Rosen for kids poems about farting and stealing all the chocolate cake, I was amazed at the fact that the book made me cry, seriously.

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

Piano-violin, vicodin-cocaine. Yes, I FINALLY worked it out. I am very SMRT. I have a degree, you know.

...*giggles and pets you*

Did you notice anything else?

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Oop, god. I have the memory of a duck, I swear. (I'm sorry I haven't posted your sunglasses yet - I'm STILL trying to figure out how to package them so that they don't get broken. It is looking rather like "deliver them in person", tbh. :S)

[innerbrat]

Opium, not cocaine.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Only if you're Rupert Everett. In the books he injected cocaine. :D

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Well I haven't really seen a lot of the episodes. I mean, there's the obvious name thing which made me facepalm LEIK WO, there's the huge homoerotic subtext... (did I say that out loud?) Unorthodox methods, eliminating the impossible in search of the improbable...

I've read all of the Conan Doyle stuff only once, I don't pretend to be an expert.

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

*grins* There's a blog. About similarities.

Also this (http://www.housemd-guide.com/miscellaneous/house-art.php) painting, which is just damned pretty.