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[alexsarll]

Am ill and abed. I was going to say 'send food', but part of the ill is a lack of appetite, so just...send wellness.

I'm not entirely sure what the phrase "miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past" is doing in my Drafts, but it's a splendid turn of phrase, isn't it? Not my own, I'm sure of that much.

Moby Dick edited to fewer than 400 pages? Just don't bother. Seriously. Yes, I know, pressure of time in the modern world, busy lives, yada yada yada. And yes, it can start to sap one's will to get bogged down in an epic - believe me, I've been there. So read a short classic instead, there are plenty out there. But if ever there was a book whose immensity was key to its purpose, it's Moby Dick.

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[shewho.livejournal.com]

oh noes! everyone has been struck down with teh ill! i reckon they're poisoning the water

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1767802,00.html

apparently...

and get well gayface

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thank you! Which I found most amusing because it was being used by a monotheist, when it actually works much better as a description of recent efforts *by* the cancer monotheisms! It's all come back to me. Though clearly if I were more functional I should have thought to google it myself. Bah.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Though I have been feeling generall run down for a while, so hopefully once it's peaked thusly, I shall emerge RENEWED!

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure what the phrase "miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past" is doing in my Drafts,

Perhaps the same spirit who wrote a nonsensical mystery quote IN MY OWN HANDWRITING is at work?

Have some wellness. And soup.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I definitely don't have the appetite for soup. I should probably try toast, that usually does it.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Dude! I can send vitamins

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

As an attachment?

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

You want chicken soup - "Jewish penicillin". And plenty of Zinc and Vitamin C.

And don't read any superhero comics - you'll only feel more inadequate...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm vegetarian, remember?

Am planning on some superhero TV, as it happens - episodes 5 and 6 of heroes are already in the DVD player.

[intermix.livejournal.com]

I am tryig to send you wellness, is it working?

Just imagine - what if the world wasn't ending?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd say that's one of the weaker (or at least patchier) releases, soif you like that, you should like most of it. But I think the highlight has to be Jack's debut, Pioneer Soundtracks - still one of my favourite albums ever, and now available in fancy 2CD edition with all the B-sides &c. It's a truly majestic record.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it was you or the toast, but I am feeling a bit better, yes. And since the toast is no longer around to be thanked, I shall thank you.

[intermix.livejournal.com]

On behalf of the toast and myself, you're welcome. Glad somethings helping.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

vegetarian chickens?

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

hope you're feeling a bit better now. toast is wonderful for curing teh ill, indeed.

[gregjames.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be; its immensity is key to its porpoise?

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

But if ever there was a book whose immensity was key to its purpose, it's Moby Dick.

True. There's nothing worse than getting your hands on an underwhelming Dick. etc.

[dignam.livejournal.com]

It's the new terrorism, don'cha know. From Florida to here in New York, from London to Hong Kong, it's the same damn bug. It malingers like a TS Eliot poem.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I have also now eaten 1 x banana. It's all go here, I tell you.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

it certainly will be, if you aren't careful. bananas are terribly difficult to digest you know.