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Just finished THS for the first time

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Postby The Pfifltrigg » August 2nd, 2006, 4:27 am

I first read it in second or third grade: probably third. Dad had read teh trilogy to us already by then as bedtime stories so I knew a little bit about it in advance. But I still remember being disappointed that Ransom wasn't as prominent as before. Always loved Mr. Bultitude, though. :read:
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Freedom lost and then regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never in danger. — Cicero
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Postby Biff » August 3rd, 2006, 12:37 am

"With hindsight perhaps it wasn't a good idea, oh well must be my hind cataracts..." Prof H.J. Farnsworth

"It was not for nothing that you are called Ransom" said the Voice..
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Postby Bill » August 3rd, 2006, 10:02 am

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Postby Stanley Anderson » August 3rd, 2006, 3:16 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Rosie Cotton » August 3rd, 2006, 4:58 pm

... and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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Postby Bill » August 3rd, 2006, 10:56 pm

Yes there's something quite cosy about "Out of the Silent Planet". Even the villains are really figures of fun, not really to be taken too seriously. For me it's just a light read when I want something not too demanding a bit like The Lion The Witch..... for grownups.

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Postby Stanley Anderson » August 4th, 2006, 5:33 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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... and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » August 4th, 2006, 7:39 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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... and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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Postby The Pfifltrigg » August 6th, 2006, 11:19 pm

Don't forget Mark, either: What Jane expects at St. Annes (initially) is akin to what Mark finds (ultimately) at Belbury, and vise versa. Except that in both cases the expectation was a couple levels of magnitude less severe than the discovered fact.
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…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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