Google| Subject | Re: OT Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America alone...[wa Re: OT Odd thing this Dem |
| From | John Swanson |
| Date | 08/13/2004 19:18 (08/13/2004 19:18) |
| Message-ID | <Xns9544C470F42E7392orpww00@195.67.237.53> |
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"?jevind L?ng" <dnivejo.gnal@swipnet.se>wrote in news:4e4Tc.15894$qn2.2375@nntpserver.swip.net:
?jevind L?ng<donald duck voice>
"John Swanson" <nospam@nospam.com>skrev i meddelandet news:Xns954471E8BA888392orpww00@195.67.237.53...
[snip]John Swanson?jevind L?ng
My youth was rather in the North, from your POV... and it is not
forgotten.
Hey, I didn't organize the Bloodbath of Stoclho?lm! :-p
Prove it. Provide the links that show that you didn't. You deny it, and I know why: it's out of sheer evil anti-Swedishism!
Now you can start frothing from your beak.
</donald duck voice>
Well, at least I enjoy my occasional, compulsory re-readings... but that's rather because in every page I can (elusively) remember some thrill or sensation I experienced during my first reading, or my fourth, or my eleventh. Or the first couple of times I read it in English. So I read the books in some random order and reflect on memories...John Swanson?jevind L?ng
And I re-read LOTR now and then, but with less enthusiasm. Reading these newsgroups has also been a thorough remedy against the faint reminiscences of literary magic in Tolkien's work... So I guess my presence in aft/rabt is a combination of curing myself of a long-lasting fascination with Tolkien, of trying to understand this fascination (with the help of others) now that it is gone, and of simply feeling at home here because we share a common ground.
Come now! I stillt hink the book is magic, though of course it has its weak points - like all books.
But hey, there will be a new fresh translation soon! I haven't heard about it for quite a while now.
Regards, John
08/13/2004
