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Hi there...I don't know what's up with the Angelfire site at the moment...so I thought I'd ensure I had a back up site to keep you amused.... Nothing much on here at the moment...except a pink sheep - kindly lent to me by Matt/Mark (can never remember which)..thanks mate..she will be happy here.

baaaaa

On this night of all nights in the year,
Ah, what demon has tempted me here?

EDGAR ALAN POE, Ulalume

Having a love of science fiction I've put a few extracts up for you......
Is this the shortest sci-fi story ever written, I wonder.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Cinemagicians - by Tuli Kupferberg

The cinemagicians created people so real
They were able to walk off the screen
& enter real life.

They all got jobs in television
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And now a few words from a story called Confluence by Brian Aldiss........Here are some Myrinian terms:

AB WE TEL MIN.... The sensation that one neither agrees not disagrees with what is being said to one, but that one simply wishes to depart from the presence of the speaker
BAMAN...The span of a man's consciousness
BIUI TOSI...A reverie lasting more than a hundred and forty-two years on cosmological themes; the sound of air in a cavern; long dark hair.
CA PATA VATUZ...The taste of a maternal grandfather
CHAM ON THE ZAM...Being witty when nobody else appreciates it
GEE KUTCH...Solar empathy
HE YUP...The first words the computers spoke, meaning, 'The light will not be necessary'
HOLT CHA...The feeling of delight that precedes and precipitates wakening.
JILY JIP TUP...A thinking machine that develops a stammer; the action of pulling up the trousers while running uphill
JIL JIPY TUP...Any machine with something incurable about it; pleasant laughter that is nevertheless unwelcome; the action of pulling up the trousers while running downhill
KARNDOLI YON TOR...Mystical state attained through inaction; feasting; a learned paper on the poetry of metal
KUNDULUM...To be well and in bed with two pretty sisters.
MAL...A feeling of being watched from within
MUR ON TIG WON...The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said; a foreign accent; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast
SHAK ALE MAN...The struggle that takes place in the night between the urge to urinate and the urge to continue sleeping
SHAK LA MAN GRA...When the urge to urinate takes precedence over the urge to continue sleeping
SHAK LO MUN GRAM...When the urge to continue sleeping takes precedence over all things.
SHE EAN MIK...Performing prohibited postures before a mirror
UES WE TEL DA...Love between a male and female politician
U RI RHU...Two lovers drunk together
YA GAG...Too much education; a digestive upset during travel
YUP PA...A book in which everything is understandable except the author's purpose in writing it
YUPPA GA...Stomach ache masquerading as eyestrain; a book in which nothing is understandable except the author's purpose in writing it
ZO ZO CIN...A woman in another field

One of my favourite authors.......R.A.Lafferty in 'The Primary Education of the Camiroi' lists the required study to complete the final year of Camiroi education:

TENTH YEAR COURSE

History construction, active.
Manufacture of ultra-light-barrier vehicles.
Panphilosophical clarifications.
Construction of viable planets.
Consolidation of simple sanctity status.
Charismatic humour and pentacosmic logic.
Hypogyroscopic economy.
Penentaglossia. (The perfection of the fifty languages that every educated Camiroi must know including six Earthian languages. Of course the child will already have colloquial mastery of most of these, but he will not yet have them in their full depth.)
Construction of complex societies.
World government. (A course of the same name is sometimes given in Earthian schools, but the course is not of the same content. In this course the Camiroi student will govern a world, though not one of the first aspect worlds, for a period of three to four months.)
Tenth form theses.

Makes OU look a doddle doesn't it!!!