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To: carranza2 who wrote (13040)12/26/2006 10:17:48 AM
From: KyrosL  Respond to of 219928
 
I agree with you C2. A prerequisite to understanding Mq is a good sense of humor. People without it, and also people that do not know English well are mostly baffled by him.



To: carranza2 who wrote (13040)12/26/2006 10:26:38 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 219928
 
I, of all folks, enjoy 'stimulating' mq in the proper way, to help him to save himself



To: carranza2 who wrote (13040)12/26/2006 11:30:27 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 219928
 
C2 your PM explanation are good enough and you are hereby granted parole. Your unbannig is subject at not to posting religion in the 5 days leading to 31.12.06.

Mq will not be reconsidered because he instead of recognizing the deviation which this Thread was getting into -with religion, not discussed as a problem in certain parts of the world, but it was becoming a cruzade of the faithfull vs. the infidels.

He also, as an agravant, hacked into SI and threatened to wreck havoc with the posters.



To: carranza2 who wrote (13040)12/30/2006 12:19:33 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 219928
 
languagehat.com
[Shade of a Russian branch: Nabokov's Vyra], by Aleksandr Alexandrovich Semochkin (apparently there's an English edition, Nabokov's Paradise Lost: The Family Estates in Russia, whose description applies equally well to my Russian 2002 second edition: "This album consists of photographs from the family archive of the Nabokovs, as well as pictures of the family estates near St. Petersburg where Vladimir Nabokov spent the summers of his boyhood and youth. Together with the quotations from his works, they make a fascinating background to the novels based on his early experiences: Speak, Memory, The Defense, and The Gift"