Sat 15 Dec, 2007 10:59 am - Herbert Pratt is mentioned in Leon Edel's acclaimed Henry James biography as a friend of the latter's elder brother William's at Cambridge, and seems to have been a carefree,... (view)
Tue 11 Dec, 2007 09:38 am - The easiest language
I would say Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), simply because most foreign learners recognise words derived from Portuguese, Dutch, English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese and so on. Its... (view)
Tue 4 Dec, 2007 08:27 am - Ron Mael Revisited
All [/I]things English, Veteran Hingehead?[I]
Consider the following lines qoted from memory:
[QUOTE]One day we'll have one extra coastline
We'll tire of the... (view)
Sun 2 Dec, 2007 10:08 am - Extant is here to stay!
Thanks for the compliment all the way from London ... hope it'll keep fellow sailors from mixing it up with sextant. I'm the kind of guy who gets free seats on... (view)
Thu 29 Nov, 2007 08:29 am - De Veenboer's first name
That would explain it! Thanks a lot for digging up the reference. The historian who wrote and compiled the Isle of Tortuga website (Mark Bruyneel) mailed me a long... (view)
Mon 26 Nov, 2007 09:38 am - Meher Baba
Thank you so much for your reply, Ashers. Your spiritual insight and sense of humour suggest Baba might just be your cup of Indian tea with a Persian flavour. Young Merwan S. Irani was... (view)
Mon 26 Nov, 2007 09:25 am - Who influenced Ron Mael's lyrics?
Thanks a lot Veteran Hingehead, I wasn't aware of the site. I was thinking along the lines of American humorists such as S.J.Perelman, as a matter of... (view)
Thu 22 Nov, 2007 09:00 am - Dear Walter & Paaskynen,
Danke schoen/Thank you very much for your reply - I mentioned some more sources in my notes sent to Cornelis... (view)
Thu 22 Nov, 2007 08:48 am - So sorry, the question was actually "[u]What[/u] were his views on Melville's highly experimental fiction". And I do mean Henry James, William James's younger brother. I... (view)
Mon 19 Nov, 2007 10:25 am - Henry James' admiration for and friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne have been documented, but were his views on Herman Melville's highly experimental fiction? (view)
