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Galadrion
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

True - but there are a few exceptions out there. I had several - more than my fair share, in fact (benefits of being an oil-patch brat), and it made a huge difference. Just as well, since I've been the classic arch-nerd archtype since I was about, oh, four or so. Razz But having teachers who actually cared about teaching helped a lot.

Heh. How many kids in the last thirty years or so have even had access to things like The Illiad, The Odessey, The Rubyatt of Omar Khayyam, and other such classics? Most get to read (or are required to read - peasants!) Romeo and Juliet and/or Hamlet, but how many tackle As You Like It, King Lear, Shakespeare's works about the Roman emperors, or oh so many of his other plays? Or his sonnets? Pfeh. Many of the teachers in the system today haven't looked at these works - some wouldn't even know how to get them. I was fortunate, there - had a couple of teachers who loved those works, and were just aching to share them with a student who was interested. Led me down some interesting paths, too - if any of you liked Hamlet, I can heartily recommend a Tom Stoppard play by the name of Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz Are Dead, in which you get to see the same play from the view of the two hapless messengers... as well as exploring some intriguing bypaths of philosophy and existentialism.

True, the "educational" system today is a battered, hollowed-out remnant of what it was in better times, but for those who want to do better, the means are available. It just takes some work. But that work can be most enjoyable.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 2:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just finished chapter 47 and I CAN'T WAIT FOR CHAPTER 48! there were time were I would just sit down here by my lonesome and read for hours on end! Thanks again Chris for one of the greatest stories I've ever read!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

:nite: wrote:
I just finished chapter 47 and I CAN'T WAIT FOR CHAPTER 48! there were time were I would just sit down here by my lonesome and read for hours on end! Thanks again Chris for one of the greatest stories I've ever read!


Y'know, it's things like that that make this all worthwhile Smile

Thanks for such kind words!

My best to yunz, an'nat,
Chris
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this dragon now has to keep an eye out for the foxx getting big headed
thinking his pun-fu is strong and invinceible he will need his tail cooked lightly...

dragon want more tabitha ^..^ will let foxx play pun-fu for tabitha
dragon has his prices Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cyberhorn wrote:
this dragon now has to keep an eye out for the foxx getting big headed
thinking his pun-fu is strong and invinceible he will need his tail cooked lightly...


Geez Louise, that's yer answer to everything Cool

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dragon want more tabitha ^..^ will let foxx play pun-fu for tabitha
dragon has his prices Very Happy


I have been dragging my heels a bit on that, you're right. Think it's time I got back to work.

Then ... it goes to James! Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well i am a dragon

tails tend to go poof when torched thus

A+B=C

dragon torches tails to get results

as for tabitha *CRACKS WHIP * get to work oh foxish one dragon needs entertianment
my human has writers block or something he has not writen much if anything
he has finished the father drake but has not worked on anything else

hey now ive been doing school work and watching the cub!

see he has done nothing more

darn you dragon i cant do 2 dozen things at once

but you can study, watch the cub, sleep and eat ..chose one and stop doing it thus you can start writing again and i can leave the foxx alone

*determined sigh* dragon you'll be the death of me yet

i do try Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cyberhorn wrote:
well i am a dragon

tails tend to go poof when torched thus

A+B=C


Actually, A+B=AB, but that's another subject Wink

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as for tabitha *CRACKS WHIP * get to work oh foxish one dragon needs entertianment
my human has writers block or something he has not writen much if anything


I dunno, maybe HE needs the whip cracked then! Wink

BTW, if anyone hasn't read "A Dragon's Day", read it! It's Cyberhorn's older stuff and it's a little weak on sentence/paragraph structure, but it's a good story! http://www.furnation.com/the_dragons_den

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hey now ive been doing school work and watching the cub!


Excuses, excuses Wink

(for those of you playing at home, it's not his cub! Cool)
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah well this dragon dislikes math thank you

8-P


*bows to the fox for that plug*
you were the first person to ever read and then ask me if they could print it out for their cub

the dragons day has had some repairs done and yes the sentance structure is still not very strong but its much easyer to read

http://www.planetfurry.com/~cyberhorn/thedragonsday.html
i also have a backup site on furnation which chris has mentioned

no but as im the one here all day the alex man tends to say draga to me thus i am becoming daddy dragon to him
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