-=>While in the White Hart, Dennis Menard explained to Fred Runk that<=-
 DM> Interesting you should mention Wilkie Collins', "The Woman in White." 
 DM> I've got it sitting right here on the edge of my desk, scheduled to
 DM> start reading it tomorrow once I've completed the third novel in Anne
 DM> Rice's "The Mayfair Witches" series.  I read Collins', "The Moonstone,"
 DM> just a bit over 2 months ago and enjoyed it considerably.
Ah, well then, I should be starting myself in about a week.  It's the end of
semester frenzy right now, and I'm getting little of my own reading done.
 DM> As to "The Lord of the Rings": back in late 1971 an English girl
 DM> recommended "The Hobbit" and the "trilogy" to me during a 3-month
 DM> wander through Morocco and it hooked me well.  It was the first fantasy
 DM> I'd ever read and it was a marvellous experience which I recall with
 DM> great nostalgia.  For the next six years, I read it once a year ...
 DM> like embarking on a journey.  If it is your first time reading this
 DM> story, I envy you!  Enjoy.  Say "Hi," to Tom Bomba- dil for me.  :)
No, I've lost track of the number of times, but it's at least over ten
readings for me since my first encounter with it back in 1966.  I've started
doing it annually also, during the xmas holidays the past 4 or 5 years.
 DM> ... He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
True, but such a fine burial mound he will have, delighting muchly future
anthropologists.
... A whale in shallow water amuses the shrimp.  Old Chinese Proverb
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