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A very curious way to play truant, true, Arni. My adventures then did also include Egyptian and Norse mythology, essentially I grew up in a cultural desert, and I live in one still. One thing I envy about other places is the openness of cultural dissemination, I've noticed this in France, Spain and recently in Australia, here in England there is a kind of cult of not-talking about things, if you pry and prise people enough you will find they've read all sorts of things, but in conversation they are more interested in talking about property values, if anything. There is a coldness in the heart of this land, and its frigid winds blow through every reave of the soul. Best Dave David Bircumshaw Leicester, England Home Page A Chide's Alphabet Painting Without Numbers http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:04 PM Subject: Re: A pome ... on 12/1/02 6:35 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote: > I demonstrated by being > expelled from two grammar schools in succession. My crime was playing > truant - I used to spend hours in the Central Library reading Icelandic > sagas instead of going to school. What a curious way to play truant, Dave! We had to read them in school! At least 4-5 of them. But, good for you! A tasteful excuse. I guess my excuse in return could have been that I was reading Shakespeare, but I wasn't. They didn't have him in the town library in Akranes. Best Árni -- Árni Ibsen Stekkjarkinn 19, 220 Hafnarfjördur, Iceland tel.: +354-555-3991 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/