Actually, quite funny twists, Roger - I read the first couple of
volumes, then stopped, reasoning that life could be far better employed
reading Proust, which I started, hundred or so pages - however, I then
started reading the original version of *Portrait of a Lady*, which I
interrupted to remind myself of the virtues of Michael Moorcock's
Cornelius quartet. I'm finishing Huxley's *Time must have a stop* now,
with Proust firmly on the agenda...
mj
Roger Day wrote:
>Happily, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Except
>for Bush. It disturbs me that I know far too much about him.
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>Roger
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>On 7/18/05, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Only one more book to go. Personally, I hope for the following outcomes:
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>>i) Harry finds out he's gay, thanks to Snape who finally confesses his
>>secret love for the plucky young wizard before initiating him into the
>>erotic secrets of pugnomancy and wand-play.
>>ii) Quidditch is banned after a team of statisticians from the
>>Ministry of Magic point out that the scoring system is, like, totally
>>whack.
>>iii) Hogwarts scores very badly in its OFSTED report, and is placed
>>under special measures. Private investment is sought to turn the
>>school into a City Academy, sponsored by Accenture and Bernard
>>Matthews and specialising in Teenage Pregnancy Prevention and How To
>>Win At Big Brother.
>>iv) Hermione leaves Hogwarts to take up a place on a Women's Studies
>>course at East Sussex University, becomes deputy women's officer at
>>the NUS, spends half her time demonstrating condom use to gormless
>>freshers and the other half trying to get Nuts and Zoo banned from the
>>shop in the student union.
>>v) Voldemort appointed Attorney General by Bush, following death of
>>Alberto Gonzalez in mysterious circumstances; Death Eaters appointed
>>to senior positions in CIA, generally over prone bodies of previous
>>incumbents; Bush hails new research into "prestidigitatious
>>techniques" as having particular utility in the ongoing "War On
>>Impurity".
>>
>>Dominic
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Flow My Tears is a novel of nonstop intrigue set sometime in the future of an alternate reality. It has a great ending and really makes you think about life and similar things. - Online review by Keith.
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