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Short literary demisters
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:07 pm
by Kelly Jones
This one is from Isaac Asimov:
Youth.
Designed to stimulate the brain of those who find thinking torturous.
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Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:02 am
by mensa-maniac
Thanks for the links Kelly, I love Kurt Vonegut. I joined and became a member in some forum as a volunteer as a proofreader, this will help me with my own sentence structure, reading and grammar.
Thanks again!
Donna Thompson
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:10 pm
by Kelly Jones
One of Woody Allan's most intellectual plays:
God.
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Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:35 am
by mensa-maniac
Kelly Jones wrote:This one is from Isaac Asimov:
Youth.
Designed to stimulate the brain of those who find thinking torturous.
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Mensa says: Kelly, this is to let you know how much I appreciate this link on Youth you've provided. I've downloaded several of these great reading materials--Thanks millions--I love it! And I look forward to reading GOD you just provided above. I think you're a terrific person, you appear well disciplined.
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:23 pm
by Kelly Jones
If anyone can find an online copy of
L'Etranger by Camus, it's quite a good read.
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Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:39 am
by Robert
Kelly Jones wrote:If anyone can find an online copy of
L'Etranger by Camus, it's quite a good read.
There's an online pdf (in English) here :
http://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS ... ranger.pdf
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:59 am
by mensa-maniac
Thanks to both of you Robert and Kelly for the great links, I shall take advantage of them. I appreciate links to good reads as no one in my whole life has ever steered me in the right direction of what good books to read. I especially appreciate this forum for the knowledge and intelligence shown here--Thank You for sharing!
Donna Thompson
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:58 pm
by Kelly Jones
An extremely funny work:
Flatland.
(Note to Donna: this thread wasn't specially made for you. If you wish to respond, can you read the texts first? Also, don't post responses immediately. Try to form a clear understanding of what you think the text meant. And even then, you don't even have to share your understanding with us. You can keep it for your own private edification. You really don't have to respond when people talk to you. Sometimes silence is much more of an improvement of one's mind.)
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Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:32 am
by cousinbasil
Kelly Jones wrote:An extremely funny work:
Flatland.
(Note to Donna: this thread wasn't specially made for you. If you wish to respond, can you read the texts first? Also, don't post responses immediately. Try to form a clear understanding of what you think the text meant. And even then, you don't even have to share your understanding with us. You can keep it for your own private edification. You really don't have to respond when people talk to you. Sometimes silence is much more of an improvement of one's mind.)
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If that note was just to mensa, why didn't you PM her instead of being such a boor in the forum?
Don't listen to her, m.m., post all you want, no one's forcing Kelly to read anything.
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:26 am
by Blair
Kelly is Kelly . Picking on her because she is mentally ill is reprehensible anyway.
;)
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:54 am
by mensa-maniac
Thanks for your moral support Cousinbasil and Prince, I needed it! Kelly, is the kind of person to be recogned with. I think Kelly was just saying that I don't always need to say Thanks, that the thread is not just for me. But, if I stopped saying Thanks for things, a part of me would change, I would become an unappreciative person like most people. And I feel I must share my ideas with others, like everyone else is doing, otherwise why am I here?
Kelly, I know you mean well, it just doesn't always sound like the way you intended. You're a little abrasive, however I can handle you. I think you've come to the stage with your thinking ability,that you dare to challenge anyone and that's really awesome. It shows you're very confident in yourself and you risk yourself because of this confidence, good for you Kelly, you've almost reached my way of thinking.
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 6:44 am
by cousinbasil
prince wrote:Kelly is Kelly . Picking on her because she is mentally ill is reprehensible anyway.
;)
You are correct, sir. My bad.
Re: Short literary demisters
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 5:15 am
by mensa-maniac
I know Kelly to be knowledgable, informative, educated, and enlightening. If she is mentally ill, it's because she's brilliant!