I have a problem with that title - Our Mutual Friend, indeed!
Tom Send a noteboard - 02/11/2011 01:21:39 AM
"Mutual" means reciprocal. If Mr. Dickens had even the faintest notion as to how to properly use the English language, he would have named the book Our Common Friend or, if that made the friend sound too plebeian, he could have called it simply Our Friend. After all, the use of the possessive "our" already implies commonality of relationship.
*sniffs indignantly*
*sniffs indignantly*
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
November! Only two months left this year! What are you reading, chaps?
- 01/11/2011 08:10:09 AM
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The Charles Dickens biography by Michael Slater
- 01/11/2011 08:57:58 AM
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I have a problem with that title - Our Mutual Friend, indeed!
- 02/11/2011 01:21:39 AM
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And
- 02/11/2011 06:38:56 AM
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It was for comic effect, and based on my memory of your posting that article.
- 02/11/2011 04:43:10 PM
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Re: It was for comic effect, and based on my memory of your posting that article.
- 02/11/2011 05:16:15 PM
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I finished The Secret Pilgrim by Le Carré (the last Smiley novel, if you can call it that)
- 04/11/2011 08:41:50 PM
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Middlemarch will probably take me a few weeks more. After that, we'll see.
- 01/11/2011 10:32:21 AM
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Read Tintentod, now reading Antony and Cleopatra (Goldsworthy, not Shakespeare). *NM*
- 28/11/2011 09:35:13 PM
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Am falling back on Harry Dresden due to the pressures of studying.
- 01/11/2011 02:00:49 PM
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So, books.
- 01/11/2011 10:08:00 PM
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The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. *NM*
- 05/11/2011 02:19:39 PM
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THe Great Gatsby. *NM*
- 28/11/2011 02:26:14 PM
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Allow me to request a review of that one. I've long been thinking I need to read it. *NM*
- 28/11/2011 09:35:48 PM
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Back to Der Zauberberg. About halfway through now.
- 02/11/2011 01:17:32 AM
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I don't know how I managed to read about 900 pages of German this month...
- 26/11/2011 10:33:52 PM
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Re: November! Only two months left this year! What are you reading, chaps?
- 02/11/2011 08:07:11 PM
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new Catherine Asaro book!
- 02/11/2011 08:22:15 PM
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reading Temeraire
- 15/11/2011 05:50:45 PM
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"Temeraire" was fun. Started on "Tumbling After" by Paul Witcover. *NM*
- 16/11/2011 06:32:50 PM
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Read "Broken Time" by Maggy Thomas/Emily Devenport. Really good!
- 30/11/2011 04:31:41 PM
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Yeesh, November already.
- 06/11/2011 12:28:51 PM
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Have you read Old Custer by Eli Cash?
- 06/11/2011 04:06:33 PM
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Nope.
- 06/11/2011 04:50:27 PM
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Never mind.
- 06/11/2011 05:07:30 PM
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Never mind.
- 06/11/2011 05:07:30 PM
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" *NM*
Re: November! Only two months left this year! What are you reading, chaps?
- 28/11/2011 04:16:33 AM
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