Let it be recorded that scooterdeb passed The Stick to Brian, who passed it to Karma Police, who passed it to Evelio, who passed it to Ivy, who passed it to Suzanne, who passed it to Gina, CDY, and Jeffery — who passed it to Tricia Lockwood, Tony Robinson, and me.
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You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The poems of Catullus, in the hope they'll slip through once again.
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Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Many times! Harriet Vane was probably the longest lasting (I had a crush on Lord Peter, too), and Jan from Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate the strongest. The most recent was Mary Gentle's Ash.
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The last book you bought is:
Four at once: the Penguin Classics edition of Aeschylus's Oresteia, David Ferry's Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations, The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore, and The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings.
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The last book you read:
Antonio Damasio's Looking for Spinoza is the last one I finished.
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What are you currently reading?
The Devil's Race-Track, The Way We Think (Fauconnier and Turner), From Dawn to Decadence (Barzun), The Misanthrope and Tartuffe (trans. Wilbur), Collected Poems of Anne Stevenson 1955-1995, and Disappearing Ink (Gioia).
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Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Complete Shakespeare (Riverside ed), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Origin of Species, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and Gödel, Escher, Bach.
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Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
Hannah Craig, because I want her to post again.
Michaela Cooper because she wrote a wonderful post on Ozymandias at her previous blog and has pictures of penises on her current blog.
Jonathan Mayhew because. Just because.
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