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  1. 10-10-2011, 04:31 AM #1
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    Hello from Ireland...

    Hi everyone,

    I signed up with WF a few days ago and so far I have spent my time reading through some of the remarkably interesting and intelligent posts written by some of the members here. I am looking forward to adding my views on the many different topics which interest me in the forum. I write plays mostly when I get the chance but most of my time is spent reading. I confess to being a bibliophile.

    To write a list of all my favourite authors would be a tedious task at this hour so I'll mention only: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Their lives and writings always inspire me.

    I hope to meet and befriend many of you during my stay here on WF.
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  2. 10-10-2011, 06:06 AM #2
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    Hi there, and welcome to the forums. TS Elliot is ok, but I never cared a lot for Joyce or Beckett. To be honest, even when I read English Literature, I still prefer a good thriller or adventure novel.
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  3. 10-10-2011, 07:07 AM #3
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    Thank you for the welcome, Nickie. That is unfortunate for you. I guess those writers whom I mention are not accessible by everyone but they do certainly make an appeal to my taste in art and literature. The fare of that literature to which you refer is something that I tend to avoid at all costs. Anyway, thank you again for the welcome.

    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” - Oscar Wilde.
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  4. 10-10-2011, 10:27 AM #4
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    Hi backstory. Welcome to WF.
    “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” ~ James Allen

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    Thank you very much, candid petunia.
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    Welcome to WF backstory

    Hope you enjoy your time here with us
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    Lovely to meet you Jinxi, and thank you very much for such a warm welcome.
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  8. 10-10-2011, 11:24 PM #8
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    Howaya,

    Welcome in. Good choice in writers, but I would challenge you to spend a lot of time here and see how your list expands..

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    TS Eliot and Sam Beckett are great choice for authors.

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    Thank you Lorlie for the welcome. As for my reading list, well... I'm 33 years old and I've been reading since I turned the tender age of three, lol!

    I must learn to word myself correctly as some people seem to get the impression that I've only ever read the abovementioned authors. I was simply giving the names of a few of my favourite writers and poets. T. S. Eliot is my favourite poet with Ezra Pound following a close second. Joyce is my favourite novelist with Proust close on his heels and Beckett is my favourite playwright full stop. Now God himself, supposing I meet him on this forum, is not going to change my mind on that matter because to me the brilliance of these four authors/poets whom I've spent a considerable number of years studying indepth is indisputable. I've loved reading the work of these men since I was in my teens and I still love reading it now. I really can't imagine any new airport novel or pulp magazine fiction taking its place on my mantle of preferred literary greats. I do read new literature. At the very least it is easy to detect whether it is worth anything at all by page three. Anyway, I'm open to suggestions, thank you.

    Hi TheFurhrer02, nice to meet you and thank you for the welcome.

    Thank you everyone for such a warm welcome!
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  11. 10-11-2011, 07:31 PM #11
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    welcome to the forum backstory!
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  12. 10-11-2011, 07:36 PM #12
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    Thank you antolyevich. Nice to meet you.
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    I'm glad somebody does. It would be a shame for them to have spent all that time writing for everyone to be like me when reading Joyce and go "WTF is all that about?" It isn't even like I have been particularly dilettantish about it - I gave him a right good go - so much so that I refuse to throw him away and out of perversity I will go and subject myself to his twisted and malign prose just to prove I can. It's a bit like how I feel about Foucalt's Pendulum as well... I know that on a subliminal level I am doing my literary bone some good, but it has the same affect as taking too many drugs - I wake up wondering what the hell I have done!

    Anyway, enough about me - this is your post

    I am a newbie too, hope you get as much out of this as I hope to!

    Cheers!
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  14. 10-12-2011, 12:52 PM #14
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    lol! Thank you for that Zootalaws. Anytime that you like to discuss these authors let me know. Foucalt is amazing to me.
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  15. 10-17-2011, 05:09 PM #15
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    Hello Mr. Irish Bibliophile guy, with very definite but sophisticated taste in literature - I'm already looking forward to your posts I confess I have myself enjoyed some of T.S. Eliot's poetry, I suppose it appeals to the melancholic.

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