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Try to make it a goal in your life...it is so very worth it, I promise.
February 20, 2008
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Have you ever been to Cavendish? I was lucky enough to spend a week on Prince Edward Island and it is just as heavenly as Montgomery described.
February 20, 2008
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Thank you, anydelirium! I sent you a friend request over there. Thanks again.
February 20, 2008
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Dear anydelirium,
Please tell me how to write a review on Librarything...I have searched till I'm blind and I can't figure it out.
Thank you.
February 20, 2008
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L.M. Montgomery was my very first favorite author as well. I have read all of her books, novels and short story collections and her journals and her poetry collections. I adore her.
February 17, 2008
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I am happy to meet you. We may be kindred spirits. Have you read any other books by L.M. Montgomery? They are full of wonderful old forgotten words that thrill the romantic heart. Are you new to Wordie? I'm rather new myself.
February 17, 2008
Comments by anydelirium
anydelirium commented on the user constants
He's one of my favourite poets, myself. :D My favourite of his varies depending on my mood, however. At the moment I'm particularly partial to the Four Quartets.
March 19, 2009
anydelirium commented on the user constants
Why, thank you. :D I would have to return the sentiment, especially as it appears that we have pulled the word from the same source!
March 15, 2009
anydelirium commented on the word soma
A sort of drug immortalized in Adolus Huxley's Brave New World.
'"Why don't you tke soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly."'
April 28, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word kerflummoxed
Perfectly baffled.
April 9, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word happy keister
A grandpa-ism for you all.
March 24, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word getting on my last nerve
Don't know about Srkrause, but I myself have lived in dutch country PA my entire life, and I'm quite familiar with the phrase- so much so that's I'm surprised to hear it's native.
March 5, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list literary-and-screen-collaborations
This is an utterly marvelous list!
March 4, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word let's blow this popsicle stand!
Hey now, I like this, and I'm not old. It's time for the old people phrases to make a comeback.
March 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word compass rose
East is a fantastic book. Read it years ago and still remember it fondly.
March 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word la belle dame sans merci
'I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!�?'
-from the poem by John Keats
March 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word footnote
Good Omens is a marvelous, marvelous book. The Bartimaeus Trilogy also has some wonderfully hilarious footnotes, particularly for a young adult/children's series.
March 3, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word will ferrell
Annoying, yes, but "Stranger Than Fiction" was a good, good movie. I mean, it was about books! What's not to love?
(Edited because 'Stranger than Friction' would be an odd, odd movie.)
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
Ooh. Oooh, that was just- well, I'm not sure if that was really good or really, really bad.
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
Aha! It's an ingenious plan!
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
Well, those would be palindromes, though I guess they could count if you were using them as a pen name. Kind of defeats the purpose though, right?
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word aolist
A person who claims to be inspired.
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ananym
One's name written backwards as a pseudonym.
-muiriledyna
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word analecta
Literary gleanings.
"My journals of collected quotes could be described as analecta."
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word alethiology
The study of truth.
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word adversaria
A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word cup of tea
'I can never find a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.' -C.S. Lewis
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word sourdough starter
Something that there can never, ever be enough of.
March 1, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list love-6
Hee, thanks. I filled it with all the delicious tidbits that just make my heart happy.
February 29, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list l-m-montgomery
Ooh, what a fun idea for a list! I'll keep my eye on this.
February 28, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word john travolta
*laugh* Maybe, Treeseed, but my mom's of the Grease generation, and I practically grew up with Danny Zuko an' all.
February 27, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word rejoicingly
HIGH waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending,
Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars,
Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,
Earth rising to heaven and heaven descending,
Man's spirit away from its drear dungeon sending,
Bursting the fetters and breaking the bars.
-Emily Brontë
February 26, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word champagne
It might sounds better than it is, but really, it sounds so pretty- who can resist?
February 25, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word lobelia
Also the name of Bilbo Baggins' cousin from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. One of the greedy Sackwater-Bagginses.
February 24, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word i'm allergic to cats
I am exactly where you are, c_b. I'm more of a dog person, but I still love the kitties, and would spend more time around them if it did not induce wheezing, crying, sneezing, and all sorts of unpleasant things.
February 23, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word right and wrong
'"Who is right, and who is wrong? No one. But live while you live, tomorrow you die, as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth worrying oneself, when life is only one second in comparison with eternity?"' -War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word wretched
'"He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything."' -The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word lotus
'And the lotus rose- quietly, quietly
The surface flittered out of heart of light.'
-Burnt Norton, from Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word believe
'"My thesis is this: I want you to believe."
'"To believe what?"
'"To believe in things you cannot."' -Dracula, by Bram Stoker
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word commonplaces
'"My life is spent in one long effort to esacpe from the commonplaces of exsistence."' -The Red-Headed League, a tale of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word youth
'"Why should I laugh?" asked the old man. "Madness is youth is true wisdom."' -from the fairy tale The Enchanted Canary, in Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word forever
'Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with him, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back- leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.' -The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word voice
'The young pastor's voice as tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken. The feeling that it so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy.' -The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word self-possessed
'I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterated some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired
Are these ideas right or wrong?'
-A Portrait of a Lady, by T.S. Eliot
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word dirt
'"If someone dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you?" he asked condescendingly.
'I wrinkled my nose. "I did once... on a dare," I admitted. "It wasn't so bad."' -Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
'"I've got a jar of di-irt! I've got a jar of di-irt!"' -Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word loompa-land
The home of the Oompa-loompas, lovers of cacao beans and employees in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word gotham city
The home city of Bruce Wayne, or Batman.
February 21, 2008
anydelirium commented on the user treeseed
Oh, you've been? I'm jealous- I've never gotten to go.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word angels
'All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even exsistence.' -On Angels, by Czeslaw Milosz
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word hell
'"Every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind- is, in the end, Hell."' -The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word torment
'Thou are to me a delicious torment. Thine ever, or never.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word virtue
'Virtue is its own punishment.' -Aneurin Bevan
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word afraid
'For to be afraid of oneself is the last horror.' -The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word books
'There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well-written, or poorly written. That is all.' -Oscar Wilde, in the author's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word violent
'These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume.'
-Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word hush
'"Hush- hush!" implored Cousin Stickles.
'"I don't mean to hush," said Valancy, perversely. "I've hush-hushed all my life. I'll scream if I want to. Don't make me want to."' -The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word pemberly
The family estate of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the hero of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word never-never land
Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.
The island home of Peter Pan, title character from J.M. Barrie's novel.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word wuthering heights
The Earnshaw home, for which Emily Bronte's gothic novel Wuthering Heights is named.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word thornfield
The family home of Mr. Rochester, the dashing, mysterious hero of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word newford
The fictional city around which fantasy author Charles de Lint centers many of his stories. Loosely based off of New York City.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word avonlea
Though imaginary, it's not entirely fictional, as L.M. Montgomery based the P.E.I. town on her own home village of Cavendish.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word wardrobe
'(She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself in a wardrobe.)' -The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word sweet
'How sad and bad and mad it was, but then, how it was sweet.' -Robert Browning
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word asphyxia
'To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.' -Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word write
'I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.' -Charlotte Bronte
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word punish
'"For shame, Heathcliff!" said I. "It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive."
'"No," he replied. "God won't have the satisfaction that I shall."' -Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word delirium
'You add the most delightful sense of the macabre to any delirium.' -Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End
*wink*
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the user treeseed
*grin* Took me some nosing around to figure it out, too.
When you're in your library, click the little symbol that lets you edit the book. Down a bit will be a space to enter your review. :)
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the list shades-of-eyeshadow
I have to agree- this is beautiful!
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word echo
A minor goddess in greek mythology. Cursed to only be able to say what she hears someone else say first, she pined away for Narcissus until only her voice remained.
February 20, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word parting
'Parting is all we know of heaven
And all we need of hell.' -Emily Dickinson
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word reality
'I reject your reality and subsitute my own!' -Mythbusters
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word rebellion
'All rebellion begins in isolation.' -Dave Edwards
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word bunbury
JACK: This ghastly state of things is what you'd call Bunburying, I suppose.
ALGERNON: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
JACK: Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
ALGERNON: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
JACK: Serious Bunburyist! Good heavens!
-The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word extortion
'She mutely offered a kiss, an offer taken unfair advantage of, to the extortion of about a hundred kisses.' -Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word velleities
'-And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote coronets
And begins.'
-Portrait of a Lady, by T.S. Eliot
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word mermaids
'I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think they will sing to me.'
-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word spectators
'And so, I think, will our age go down- in fiery destruction to the applause of a crowded house of cheering spectators.' -Soren Kierkegaard
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word experience
'Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn- my God, do you learn.' -C.S. Lewis
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word normal
'I have no confidence in the normal, well-balanced type of persons.' -The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word mind
'the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.' -e.e. cummings
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word rest
'"I want rest- rest!" said Mrs. Kent, laughing wildly. "Can you find that for me? Don't you know I'm a ghost, Emily? I died years ago... I walk in the dark."' - the book Emily's Quest, by L.M. Montgomery
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word prayer
'May you do for La Hire what you would like La Hire to do for you, if you were La Hire and La Hire were God.' -famous prayer of Etienne do Vignolles, commonly called La Hire, mercenary and soldier of Joan of Arc.
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word sanity
'Sanity is madness put to good use.' -attributed to George Santayana
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word please
'"He simply said, 'Please. Please, I need to live.' Twas the please that caught my memory. I asked what was so important for him. 'True love,' he replied."' -Westley, from The Princess Bride
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word bored
'The man who lets himself be bored is more contemptible than the bore.' -Samuel Butler
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word truth
'The truth is more important than the facts.' -Frank Lloyd Wright
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word honest
'I am not naturally honest, but sometimes I am so by chance.' -William Shakespeare
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word labyrinth
'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?' reportedly Simon Bolivar's last words.
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word vo-tech
A vocational school. (For example, I have a friend attending the local vo-tech for his mechanic's certification or degree or whatever the frick they hand out there.)
February 19, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word etymology
Definitely not- I get them mixed up all the time.
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word beer
'"There's this car, that runs on water, man. Th reason the government doesn't want us to know about it is cause they know we'll buy all the water, and there'll be nothing left to drink, except BEER. And they know that beer, will set us free."' -That 70's Show
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word darkness
'I never knew the darkness had so many colours, all of them black.' -the book Firethorn, by Sarah Micklem
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word abstract
'There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can then remove all traces of reality.' -Pable Picasso
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word ishkabibble
My grandfather called his grandchildren this all the time- I never thought I'd find it here!
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word godnought
Oh, goodness, that's hilarious.
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word doubt
'"You should never, ever doubt what nobody is sure of."' -Willy Wonka in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word heaven
'My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's lovliness.' -Michelangelo
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word commandeer
Will Turner: We're going to steal a ship? That ship?
Jack Sparrow: "Commandeer." We're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term.
-the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word commandeer
'(The form for commandeering a genuine NYC garbage truck MAY be 34 pages long, but one day I will think of a reason to fill it out, I swear to you.)' -the book Peeps, by Scott Westerfield
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word despair
'I can endure my own despair better than another man's hope.' -William Welsh
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word shirty
'"Look, son," the cop says. "There's no need to get all shirty with me."
'"Shirty??"
'"YES, shirty."
'I quite like the word.' -the book I Am The Messenger, by Markus Zusak
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word writing
'Writing is easy. Just place a piece of paper in the typewriter and start bleeding.' -Thomas Wolfe
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word novel
'The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.' -the book Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word insanity
'Insanity- doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.' -Albert Einstien
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word cliffs of insanity
A setting in William Goldman's book 'The Princess Bride' and in the movie of the same name. Aptly named, for these cliffs are ridiculously tall- only Fezzik and the Man in Black are strong enough to climb them.
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word buttercup
The heroine and title character in William Goldman's book 'The Princess Bride'.
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word planet
'"And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so well..."' -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word coffee spoons
'I have measured out my life in coffee spoons/ Now how should I presume?' - the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word happiness
'Happiness in intelligent people is one of the rarest things I know.' -Ernest Hemmingway
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word lies
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.' -Robert Louis Stevenson
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word vociferate
'"I vociferated enough curses to annihilate any fiend in christendom."' -Heathcliff, from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
February 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word dorian
The name of the title character in Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word jane
title character in Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Bennett, in Austen's Pride and Prejudice
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word lolita
The title and a nickname for the title character in Nabokov's 1958 novel. A diminutive of the spanish name Lola, meaning 'sorrows'.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word jack-in-the-pulpit
A wildflower, scientifically and botanically known as Arisaema triphyllum. Also known informally as Indian Turnip.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word narcissus
A spring-blooming flower named for a character of greek mythology of the same name. He was obsessed with his own beauty, stared at a reflection of his face all day and all night. He wasted away and eventually died.
The nymph Echo was in love with him.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word glory-of-the-snow
An early spring-blooming bulb flower, botanically known as Chionodoxa luciliae.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the user treeseed
Hello! I am quite new indeed. As for L.M. Montgomery, well, I've read all of Anne, all of Emily, and quite a few others. She was my very first Favourite Author. :)
Pleasure to meet you!
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word thyme
'"What herb do young ladies fear most?"
'"What?" asked Valancy wearily.
'"Thyme," said Uncle Benjamin, chuckling to himself.'
-The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word fairy bells
A small, delightful wildflower- more often called bluebells.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word primrose
This is as opposed to a loose rose.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word tooth fairy bells
So glad you enjoyed it! I must say, yours conjures quite the mental picture.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word daffodil
Botanical name "Narcissus". Sometimes playfully called "Daffa-down-dilly", and mentioned as such in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
February 17, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word slip
This word might not be onomatopoeia, but it should be.
February 17, 2008