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Hi :) love your layout.
what's up?

Hey! Thanks for the comment on my story Elina!

Those questions are perfectly valid so...okay...basically the stiletto mention was just to kind of get the description right, i just wanted something that sounded harsh but sharp and stiletto heels on stone kind of fit that well. And as for the time period I'm not exactly sure myself. I was just kinda getting into the descriptions...and as it said at the bottom I have no solid idea where it's going yet. I have a rough idea of a couple of things but as soon as I decipher the time period (these things normally come to me when writing) I shall let you know, or all the readers know!

But thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

Ryan x

hi, thanks for the comment. i love the song as well. i've listened to it for days when i heard a friend of mine had cancer. the story is my own way to deal with something, so i'll keep updating (fast) as long as i can't let that go.
lol, your profile reminds me of when i was like the biggest lotr fan possible. i recognized the quotes immediatly :D

Not the Orign of the Blue Princess because I am planning on having it published I can't post all that I have.

Actually, my favorite is Firestarter. I like them all, but that one's my favorite.

oh. uh, thanks, then! I don't like it when people give out destructive criticism

Thanks. :)
I like all yourLOTR avatars.

thanks =]

I've been good. I've been thinking about college, but I'm really nervous. I haven't updated my stories in months; I'm having a writer's block.

Have you checked out my stories lately?

Hey!

Don't worry about your story. It's been a while since I've updated mine also.

How've you been doing?

Thank you for the poem comment. :]

Ireland. Oh, lordy, I love Ireland.

I went to Greece too, recently, and I fell in love with Delphi (I've a poem up here now). It's... perfect. A tiny village on the side of a mountain with a forest view.

Gorgeous.

Yeah, tell me about it. The aristocracy around here used to come and watch people in the workhouses for a "fun day out". It would be funny if it weren't true.

Oooh, I wish I wasn't here...

I know what you mean, Kafka. I live in the town where the last hanging in England took place.

It's still morbid.

I think to some extent that you make things around you exciting. I mean, I live in a horrible town. it's smallish - around 40 000 inhabitants- it has a huge paper factory, it's always foggy, the buildings around the historical center are all broken down and ruin-like and nothing ever happens here, but I love it. apparently, during the late Middle Ages more witches were burned in our square than in the whole country together. and there are secret tunnels all over the place. and two really shabby palaces. it has the second or third biggest synagogue in the country and no Jews because most of them were sent to Auschwitz. and other things. walking down the street and thinking about all that makes my heart beat faster. the world around us is a wonderful place and there are so many captivating -more interesting than a lot of novels- stories. it's just how life is. and I think you can live it to that intensity in any forgotten seemingly boring corner of the planet.
On the other hand, I think America is a great place for culture. you have so many resources, so many libraries, great universities, places to learn and just places to discover- the country is incredibly huge, for once.

Indian? woaw.

I'm not that intimidating, I think. at least I shouldn't be given that much credit for knowing more languages, I'm lazy when it comes to doing coursework, but I'm good at picking up things. The Divine Comedy is, if read well, breath-taking. I think you need to read a good translation and then not pay attention to the commentaries and just let yourself be immersed in the story.

Yeah, this country is full of greenness. :tehe: I think I over-romanticize my country so I won't say much more about it. I, personally, find it captivating and lively. although I'm not always its number one fan, I think I would've been a very different kind of person if I were born elsewhere.

Actually, I first read Kafka in Spanish. But it was only Metamorphosis, I read his short stories, the Castle and Amerika in a Romanian translation. I've been meaning to learn some German -I visited Austria this winter and it was so scary not to know what everyone around you was talking- and I've bought a few learn-on-your-own books, but I haven't started them yet. I can understand Spanish and Italian because they're pretty similar to Romanian and I've been hearing them on tv or the radio or reading them -I love both Dante and Borges so I had a go at their originals. My plate is pretty much full when it comes to languages because I also take Latin in school. I really want to get a degree in Comparative Literature and multilingualism is pretty much required in the field -well, if you want to do research, at least, which I do.

Let me count- I've been doing French for 8 years. that's. a lot of time. So is French your native language?

And no, I haven't heard of The Prophecy of Stones, getting published at 14 is indeed pretty impressive.

I mean, surely most people know of Voltaire, but how many people actually read Voltaire. Not that many people read Thomas More. But I still think contemporary-fiction-wise French literature is little read internationally. maybe it's just my impression.

Oh no. I'm Romanian actually. I've been doing French since third grade but it never sticked as well as English did. After three years of English I could already read books in contemporary English. I can read uncomplicated contemporary French but I still have to work on my vocabulary.

Oh, I just asked because all our literature courses are structured like history classes with a lot of emphasis on cause-effect.

You take French Literature? That's so cool. :D
You study it chronologically, right? I think French literature is too often overlooked, especially by English-speakers, but as the whole world guides itself by the English-speaking world also by everyone else outside the French-speaking sphere -it's true that translations are never as good as the originals, but that's not an excuse-. I'm trying to go past my prejudices and read more internationally, though. I'm thinking about attempting Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu this summer. but we'll see.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it!

I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Good book :)