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[2007-08-18 12:45:13 +0000 UTC]
"prefers blue ink to red ink."
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 557; Deviations: 32; Watchers: 19
Watching: 80; Pageviews: 10885; Comments Made: 551; Friends: 80
# Interests
Favorite movies: "Dangerous Liaisons," "Doubt," "What Dreams May Come."Favorite writers: Lord Byron
Favorite games: Castlevania ("Symphony of the Night," if I have to choose just one)
Tools of the Trade: Microsoft Word, the English language, and a classical edumacation.
Other Interests: Reading, Writing; Fantasy; British Poetry (from Milton to Wordsworth); snootiness.
# About me
I write the words; she draws the pictures.Current Residence: Yoknapatawpha County
Favourite genre of music: Baroque Classical, Electronica, Classic Rock, Rock that Sounds Like Classic Rock, Video Game Music
Favourite style of art: Romantic Era
Skin of choice: Lugano Damask
# Comments
Comments: 181
Hey, happy birthday. Hope things are goin' great for ya. =]
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Hey,
There's this writing group called 'DuelWriting' where writers are challenged by fellow writers in writing.
If you are interested, please click on this [link]
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Thanks for the faves and the crit! I promise I'll reply to the critique as soon as things settle down and I have more time to read everything. I'm glad you took the time to really consider my writing, though, I'm very flattered.
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Do take your time--after all, I've been forced to do the same as I revive my online presence here at DA. And I'm fully aware that I owe you quite a bit of reading time, so I shall do my best to return the favor!
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I didn't ultimately end up replying to your critique of my essay because I mostly agreed with your criticisms. That is, they made sense. So what that probably should've led to was a revision of the essay, but I've been kinda lazy involved in other projects lately 
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Hey there
You've been featured in the A,B,C's of Literature: Q
Thank you for your wonderful piece of literature and I hope this finds you well.
Thank you very much
Sammie
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Why thank you! I'm flattered!
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your work is quite sensational
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Thank you for the 
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Glad I stumbled across you, sir, via your comments to others. Until about ten seconds ago, I had no idea that DA even had a group for book reviews; furthermore, it's nice to see an articulate academic wandering the DA realm. Anywho, you seem interesting enough for a good stalking.
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Why, thank you Madame! (I wondered for a while whether anybody ever bothered reading my mini-essays in the comment boards.)
While I've read _The Fountainhead_ and _Atlas Shrugged_, I must confess that I'm not a fan of Ayn Rand as you mention in your profile. The way the political right misunderstands her--along with the way she misunderstands Darwin--irks me. But I will say that her prose style is remarkable, especially for one who learned English as a second language. (Very Conradian, I suppose.)
But enough pedantry for now. Let me look through your gallery. Cheerio!
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I love the mini-essay style of comment. 
I like Ayn Rand primarily for her writing and characters, and the strong sense of individualism she espouses. Also, I've liked for so absurdly long for those reasons that, even if I have complaints about her, I do know that she inevitably helped at least a little in the process of making me who I am. I started reading her in the fifth grade, because I was finally getting bored with fantasy and sci-fi and my dad had all of her novels (it's funny, my dad loves her, my mom hates her). Also, I had already read Victor Hugo (thanks to my obsession with the Disney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), and he was her favorite author. Knowing that helped me find connections between the two, and probably led somewhat to my subsequent humanism - I loved the idea of people being moral just because they wanted to be, and not because they were trying to appease someone or something else. That said, I've never been a part of the political right, so I never latched on to the more conservative and capitalistic portions of her writings, especially as they have been interpreted by others.
Ack, sorry to ramble so long, just wanted to provide a better idea of why I am compelled to place her as one of my favorite writers. I think she's a pretty interesting topic to discuss, as is Conrad. (And speaking of other writers whose first language was not English, there's Rafael Sabatini, author of swashbucklers like Scaramouche and Captain Blood, who writes quite vivid prose, and yet English was something like his seventh language. So envious.)
Sorry for the late reponse, by the by. Finally finished finals week, which was mostly just "write a million and one papers" week.
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Quite alright! My own response is belated, thanks to holiday travel.
My own encounter with Rand was similar to yours: I read _Atlas Shrugged_ and _The Fountainhead_ in high school, and was similarly impressed by her sense of individuality and her deconstruction of "virtue" as an "altruistic" endeavor (i. e., it's not). The place where I began disagreeing with her was her stance on environmentalism, which we receive hints of in the opening chapter of _The Fountainhead_: Howard Roark looks on the landscape around him only as resources for potential use, without regard for the waste and ill effects of that use. From there, my relationship with Rand went downhill.
Congrats on finishing your finals, though--and have yourself a most merry holiday!
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Thanks for the favorite on Techno Diving . I'm glad you liked it.
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THX 4 TEH FAVS, DUDE!
On another note, I seriously don't know what we're going to do when Wave goes bye-bye. I'll have to start looking for alternatives.
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Aye. For now, I think I'm just going to have to dump all that text into Word files for now. Either way, I'm glad to see that you've been using DA, unlike certain folks of ill repute.
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South Carolina seems to have a way of bringing out the best in people.
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Or the worst--just ask our politicians.
But thanks!
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Welcome to the Romanticists.
Feel free to post one, two or three pieces of (literary?) art.
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Thank you wonderfully for adding my "The Ballad of Bunker Hill" to your favorites. It is greatly appreciated, I assure you.
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Thank you for the favorite! It truly made my day. I appreciate it a lot, and I hope that you're happy and your day is going really well! You deserve it.
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My pleasure! Romantic poets FTW.
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My pleasure! It's about time somebody initiate a rational conversation about religion. Keep it up!
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