tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post8390862612573221918..comments2023-11-02T15:27:57.223+00:00Comments on Reading the Signs: The Purity of the RoadReading the Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-44290768992338557482012-10-19T22:08:49.062+00:002012-10-19T22:08:49.062+00:00Keep a secret? I've never read On the Road. I ...Keep a secret? I've never read On the Road. I started to, at about 18–19, and found it boring. No, really, I did. I should mayhap go back and try it again (please note that I wasn't a complete illiterate either, so I don't rightly know what happened there; although I suppose there's a slight possibility that it just wasn't – possibly <i>isn't</i> my bag, as they say). <br /><br />So I cannot rightly comment on the casting. I am just going to be annoying (yes, the return of Ms Smart-Ass, I fear, is upon us) and note that being pregnant (and barefoot, why not) is an adventure that men will never experience (okay, they just <i>might</i> go barefoot on occasion). Not that this means anything at all, of course; for I know full well what you mean, whilst not wanting to sound like one of those femminist folk who go on about men only being partially human or whatnot, due to their lack of womb and blah. NO. <br /><br />I don't know what I'm going on about. Just to prove the point of my illiteracy, I've never even heard of Mrs. Pepperpot until I read your post. Shame on me, obviously. <br /><br />I think I want to grow old and have adventures – because as a woman gets older (me, at any rate), she has less of the feminine about her (so no bare feet in the kitchen being with child, innit, or at least not the last of that lot). This is, in a sense, just as well, for I am growing old and will continue growing more so, if all goes to plan. Making a virtue out of a necessity here, quite wildly. Maybe growing old is a kind of an adventure, too? <br /><br />Growing old may also, like, really suck, innit. But then who said adventures always are brilliant throughout? Exactly.<br /><br />I need to shut up. I'll be away for the weekend, Signsipoo, so you just watch it.<br /><br />x<br /><br />(Oh and - the word ver non-robot proof: no problem, Signs (today's word is <i>Hotaria</i> - beat that). I think it's a good thing, what with those lovely wee photos, and I was getting quite a lot of the spam-master specials into my inbox, due to having ticked the "follow the comments on this post" box some years ago on some long-lost posts where we used to play, when we and the world were young, do you remember? Ah yes, I remember it well. Oh do be quiet. Me, obviously. Mwah.)Anna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-72570918756776418482012-10-15T15:28:49.256+00:002012-10-15T15:28:49.256+00:00sorry - it was I, signed in to wrong thingy (don&#...sorry - it was I, signed in to wrong thingy (don't ask)Fire Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518190677399410354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-9256625324600351662012-10-14T21:04:47.563+00:002012-10-14T21:04:47.563+00:00I know, Zhoen, it doesn't make sense - and he ...I know, <b>Zhoen</b>, it doesn't make sense - and he was quite the wrong type.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-21359342104552551212012-10-14T20:34:51.737+00:002012-10-14T20:34:51.737+00:00Not that I'm a Kerouac fan, but an English act...Not that I'm a Kerouac fan, but an English actor playing the lead? I'll buy that he was miscast. Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-22626253354410885452012-10-14T17:09:11.702+00:002012-10-14T17:09:11.702+00:00Hi PB - haven't seen you here before (have I?)...Hi <b>PB</b> - haven't seen you here before (have I?).Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.com