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Try to make it a goal in your life...it is so very worth it, I promise.
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Have you ever been to Cavendish? I was lucky enough to spend a week on Prince Edward Island and it is just as heavenly as Montgomery described.
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Thank you, anydelirium! I sent you a friend request over there. Thanks again.
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Dear anydelirium,
Please tell me how to write a review on Librarything...I have searched till I'm blind and I can't figure it out.
Thank you.
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L.M. Montgomery was my very first favorite author as well. I have read all of her books, novels and short story collections and her journals and her poetry collections. I adore her.
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I am happy to meet you. We may be kindred spirits. Have you read any other books by L.M. Montgomery? They are full of wonderful old forgotten words that thrill the romantic heart. Are you new to Wordie? I'm rather new myself.
anydelirium commented on the user constants
He's one of my favourite poets, myself. :D My favourite of his varies depending on my mood, however. At the moment I'm particularly partial to the Four Quartets.
Mar 19, 2009
anydelirium commented on the user constants
Why, thank you. :D I would have to return the sentiment, especially as it appears that we have pulled the word from the same source!
Mar 15, 2009
anydelirium commented on the word soma
A sort of drug immortalized in Adolus Huxley's Brave New World.
'"Why don't you tke soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly."'
Apr 27, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word kerflummoxed
Perfectly baffled.
Apr 9, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word happy keister
A grandpa-ism for you all.
Mar 24, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word getting on my last nerve
Don't know about Srkrause, but I myself have lived in dutch country PA my entire life, and I'm quite familiar with the phrase- so much so that's I'm surprised to hear it's native.
Mar 5, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list literary-and-screen-collaborations
This is an utterly marvelous list!
Mar 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word let's blow this popsicle stand!
Hey now, I like this, and I'm not old. It's time for the old people phrases to make a comeback.
Mar 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word compass rose
East is a fantastic book. Read it years ago and still remember it fondly.
Mar 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word la belle dame sans merci
'I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!�?'
-from the poem by John Keats
Mar 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word footnote
Good Omens is a marvelous, marvelous book. The Bartimaeus Trilogy also has some wonderfully hilarious footnotes, particularly for a young adult/children's series.
Mar 2, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word will ferrell
Annoying, yes, but "Stranger Than Fiction" was a good, good movie. I mean, it was about books! What's not to love?
(Edited because 'Stranger than Friction' would be an odd, odd movie.)
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
Ooh. Oooh, that was just- well, I'm not sure if that was really good or really, really bad.
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
Aha! It's an ingenious plan!
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
Well, those would be palindromes, though I guess they could count if you were using them as a pen name. Kind of defeats the purpose though, right?
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word aolist
A person who claims to be inspired.
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
One's name written backwards as a pseudonym.
-muiriledyna
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word analecta
Literary gleanings.
"My journals of collected quotes could be described as analecta."
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word alethiology
The study of truth.
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word adversaria
A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word cup of tea
'I can never find a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.' -C.S. Lewis
Feb 29, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word sourdough starter
Something that there can never, ever be enough of.
Feb 29, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list love-6
Hee, thanks. I filled it with all the delicious tidbits that just make my heart happy.
Feb 29, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list l-m-montgomery
Ooh, what a fun idea for a list! I'll keep my eye on this.
Feb 28, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word john travolta
*laugh* Maybe, Treeseed, but my mom's of the Grease generation, and I practically grew up with Danny Zuko an' all.
Feb 27, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word rejoicingly
HIGH waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending,
Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars,
Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,
Earth rising to heaven and heaven descending,
Man's spirit away from its drear dungeon sending,
Bursting the fetters and breaking the bars.
-Emily Brontë
Feb 26, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word champagne
It might sounds better than it is, but really, it sounds so pretty- who can resist?
Feb 25, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word lobelia
Also the name of Bilbo Baggins' cousin from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. One of the greedy Sackwater-Bagginses.
Feb 23, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word i'm allergic to cats
I am exactly where you are, c_b. I'm more of a dog person, but I still love the kitties, and would spend more time around them if it did not induce wheezing, crying, sneezing, and all sorts of unpleasant things.
Feb 22, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word right and wrong
'"Who is right, and who is wrong? No one. But live while you live, tomorrow you die, as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth worrying oneself, when life is only one second in comparison with eternity?"' -War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word wretched
'"He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything."' -The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word lotus
'And the lotus rose- quietly, quietly
The surface flittered out of heart of light.'
-Burnt Norton, from Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word believe
'"My thesis is this: I want you to believe."
'"To believe what?"
'"To believe in things you cannot."' -Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word commonplaces
'"My life is spent in one long effort to esacpe from the commonplaces of exsistence."' -The Red-Headed League, a tale of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word youth
'"Why should I laugh?" asked the old man. "Madness is youth is true wisdom."' -from the fairy tale The Enchanted Canary, in Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word forever
'Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with him, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back- leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.' -The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word voice
'The young pastor's voice as tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken. The feeling that it so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy.' -The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word self-possessed
'I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterated some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired
Are these ideas right or wrong?'
-A Portrait of a Lady, by T.S. Eliot
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word dirt
'"If someone dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you?" he asked condescendingly.
'I wrinkled my nose. "I did once... on a dare," I admitted. "It wasn't so bad."' -Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
'"I've got a jar of di-irt! I've got a jar of di-irt!"' -Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word loompa-land
The home of the Oompa-loompas, lovers of cacao beans and employees in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word gotham city
The home city of Bruce Wayne, or Batman.
Feb 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the user treeseed
Oh, you've been? I'm jealous- I've never gotten to go.
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word angels
'All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even exsistence.' -On Angels, by Czeslaw Milosz
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word hell
'"Every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind- is, in the end, Hell."' -The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word torment
'Thou are to me a delicious torment. Thine ever, or never.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word virtue
'Virtue is its own punishment.' -Aneurin Bevan
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word afraid
'For to be afraid of oneself is the last horror.' -The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word books
'There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well-written, or poorly written. That is all.' -Oscar Wilde, in the author's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word violent
'These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume.'
-Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Feb 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word hush
'"Hush- hush!" implored Cousin Stickles.
'"I don't mean to hush," said Valancy, perversely. "I've hush-hushed all my life. I'll scream if I want to. Don't make me want to."' -The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
Feb 20, 2008