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« Reply #105 on: August 30, 2007, 12:18:08 PM »

happy night tonight - my husband´s birthday

belgian bear is a wonderful devilish invention

vive les trappistes!
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« Reply #106 on: August 31, 2007, 02:52:07 AM »

congrats for your husband

we're a small country, almost nobody sees us or knows where we are,

but our stuff is everywhere, and everybody loves it. Smiley


i always drink "Koninck".
http://www.dekoninck.be/
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« Reply #107 on: September 01, 2007, 01:53:08 AM »

I’ve been to Bruxelles two times and I fell in love with the city. It’s got a lovely slightly melancholic atmosphere – I even liked the cloudy weather. (Also, the people I’ve met were very nice and the food was fabulous).

You don’t seem to export that many kinds of that great beer of yours – I can only find here Delirium Tremens and Rochefort (les fantastiques bičres trappistes).  
 
I usually don’t drink and don’t like bear but the Belgian one is something different.
 Smiley
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« Reply #108 on: September 01, 2007, 09:55:44 AM »

Yes, Bruxelles is indeed very nice.  The "Kunstberg" (Art-Mountain) is beautiful.
http://www.brusselsinternational.be/wabxlint/components/discover/promenades.jsp?section=V&lg=NL&cid=V.DEC.PROM.MONTARTS

Yeah, well, not aaall of our stuff is all over the world, but it's scattered here and there.  


Why don't you move to Belgium? Smiley
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« Reply #109 on: September 02, 2007, 07:46:23 PM »

I know I have an idealized image of Bruxelles because I was very happy there – I wouldn’t want to spoil it.  Smiley
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« Reply #110 on: September 03, 2007, 03:45:01 AM »

alright then,
maybe later.

Smiley
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« Reply #111 on: September 05, 2007, 09:47:46 AM »

Haven't been around here much... My life has been crazy the last few months.  Roll Eyes

I'm just settling into my senior year of high school, I'm back in the states after being in the north of France for a year (we overstayed our visas and we want to go back for legal) and I'm finishing editing a horror novel I wrote.

Also reading lots of Faulkner and "The Sandman" comic series.

Other than that, it's all been pretty dull for me.  Grin
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« Reply #112 on: September 06, 2007, 04:26:14 AM »

Radio Saturday,post the novel here please Smiley
As for me,I am busy revising stuff for my re-sit(microeconomics one) and I feel like workaholic should be my name.
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« Reply #113 on: September 06, 2007, 09:51:19 AM »

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Radio Saturday,post the novel here please

Um, it's really long... Shocked

But you asked for it, so Here is the first chapter. If you like it, I'll put up more.

Oh, now I'm all excited to see what you think! Grin
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« Reply #114 on: September 06, 2007, 12:23:59 PM »

Hi folks this is my first post here after finally signing up.  I have been following the forum for the last few weeks and am pretty new to Dostoevsky.  However from the very first sentence of Notes from Underground I have been hooked.

As soon as I fin. Notes....I went straight back to page 1 and read it over.  It is the kind of story I think I could read forever.  I then went on to read The Double, Crime and Punishment and Bobok.  I have The Idiot, The Gambler and A Nasty Story all patiently waiting for the near future.  The culmination to my reading is going to be The Bro. K.

I'm 24 and live in the Scottish Highlands but about to move to Newcastle to join the Merchant Navy as an engineer.  I think this an excellent site for conversing with lovers of great literature and look forward to contributing however I can.
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« Reply #115 on: September 08, 2007, 11:04:55 AM »

Welcome, Zissou, to our forum and website!   Smiley
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« Reply #116 on: September 08, 2007, 11:07:00 AM »

I have an update on what's going on with me...

My wife and I just moved back to Colorado and we're loving it here (as we did before).  It's nice to be far, far away from Washington DC.  The move across the country was long but went pretty smoothly except five minutes after I picked up the Penske moving truck and car trailer, a semi sideswiped the trailer.  Had to go back and get another one.  Tongue  Other than that, and all the boxes that are around our house, things went well in the move.  Cool
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« Reply #117 on: October 23, 2007, 08:28:34 AM »

hello world! it certainly has been a while since I've posted. I lurk about once a week but life is so good and so busy I don't have time for everything Smiley

in recent, major, life changing news: I got engaged! We are having the civil ceremony in the Spring - and a church wedding towards the end of the Summer in Poland Smiley

About a month ago we took a trip out west - colorado, utah, arizona. Visited some great places - Bryce canyon is amazing.

Other than that I got a promotion at work - more responsibility = more time working...but the compensation still justifies it - especially now that we want t start a family in the next couple years Smiley

I'm also working on opening up a bar/lounge - a great opportunity went by me a few weeks ago. If I made a quick decission then I would already be a bar owner Smiley it wasn't meant to be.

I'm trying to read Don Quixote - for the past 4 months.... yea - maybe in the winter.

How is everyone else?
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« Reply #118 on: October 23, 2007, 09:09:26 AM »

Congrats axon on the engagement!  How exciting!

I've been a "lurker" here, too - not posting too much but overseeing things every once in a while.  

Where are you living now?  How did you meet your bride-to-be?
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« Reply #119 on: June 23, 2008, 04:41:57 PM »

Hi all (again), after another 6 month hiatus I am back, with many changes. I am neither reading nor writing as much as I wish. Unfortunately, business school does not allow for much of either, except very technical reading. I really am an English major at heart, but a business major in practice. I can't keep from reading though - I subscribe to Forbes and Fortune magazine.

What else? I am working for HSBC now, as well as taking an accounting class (just a six week summer course), which keeps me more than busy.

I have lined up books to read once I have more time, I am looking at Bleak House first, perhaps something by Kafka next. I was reading political books, but they are actually quite boring, and uninformative if you are a news junkie like me they are quite bland compared to the blogs.

I guess thats it in a nutshell. I love this site, but its really tough to discuss Dostoevsky solely, because I just am unable to dedicate my leisure time to one author - and it would not be difficult to dedicate myself wholly to his work, but I want to read far more authors.
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