Patrick’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2009)

Patrick’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Cool, as soon as we get the location fixed, I'll look up on Meet Ups AOL to look for a sign language group. If you want, you can look up on Meet Ups for ASL groups near your area. It is a good gateway to the Deaf community at large.

I was wondering if you all would be willing to try joining A.S.L. socials in your area. Jennie mentioned having a deaf son and it would go far for me if most or some of you are open mind to learning sign language? I can look about Starbucks in the Montana area and maybe we can do an expedition. My attitude about my deafness changed a lot since I got fired from my old job and joined a new job as a disability advocate.
Sorry for not speaking up about that before but I was really a timid person before.

I recommend Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima as a harrowing account of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. I read three volumes of it as a sophomore in college and am haunted by it. It is in series of comic novels but worth collecting and reading. I have forgotten about this until now.

Yes, I noticed it in the novels pet peeves in another group. One person mentioned 'Mary Sue' and went on to describe that label as a character in the book who is perfect and beautiful and kind hearted.

But the funny thing is when I play Skyrim, I always use the female character as assassin or thief, or a bad guy. I also go out of my way to make her the prettiest girl in the entire realm. Same thing with Fallout 3 and LA Vegas Fallout.

Yeah it seems like the internet haven't had enough coffee either. I was thinking of a poem that I learned in middle school with all the contrasting verses and it ends with "God's in his Heaven and all's right with the world." It is killing me that I can't remember the poem. I will still keep looking. Meanwhile, I used Yogi Berra and Mark Twain as examples of paradox writings to prepare them for 'Animal Farm.'

Hi, I am trying to teach my deaf adult students how to read more critically instead of accepting words at face value.

I was hoping to show them the poem with each verse that contradicts with one another. I remembered reading that poem in middle school but can't for the life of me remember exactly the name of that poem and who wrote it. It ends with 'God's in his heaven and all is right with the world.' Can anyone help?

Okay will look for that. Will buy the Crime and Punishment before A.S.L. Social tonight.

I am not sure if I can make it this year. I am still out of work and need this year to find a job. I guess I would withdraw my vote for now.

I would like to try for dork 13 on the East Coast maybe in New York, the original booklover's state. The reason is that I am out of work this year and am a bit tight with money. But s'up to you all.

Beside, like Stephen King said, 'Laughter is anger with makeup on.'
You ought to read non fiction, "Cancerland." in where the patient with cancer questioned the hospital infantile treatment of the adult patients by providing them with teddy bears, crayons, and papers.

Well I did laugh. And am thinking about looking up Gorilla Mask and others sex acts online. I just did not want to risk the computer version of S.T.D.

I loved most of Stephen King's novels, especially Salem's Lot. The reason that Salem's Lot was so scary to me was because I could not decide which was worse, the vampires or the townpeople that readily embrace such darkness. The scariest scene to me was at the end where the writer gazed in the snowglobe and in the swirls of snow, he imagined seeing a pale face peeking from the window of the gingerbread house in the globe. Stephen King said in his interview that scene was to show the readers that evil could be contained. To me it was like Pandora's box even though the pale face was in the writer's imagination, it still scared me, the potiental that such a horrid evil could be unleashed again. I think that is part of Stephen King's skill, to explore the story through a microscope and then a telescope then a magnifying glass and maybe, for giggles, the wrong end of a telescope.'Salem's Lot

Whoo. Nice. Love the book gang bang scene on the shelves.

Whatever become of that uncertain staircase? I want to know more about that character! Is he or she working at overcoming his/her shyness enough to start working at Applebee as a hostess? So many questions about that character.

Joyce Carol Oates is a great writer to get people upset about what happened in her scary story.

Hey, I did check out Wharton's photo. I think she's cute!

I'm in.

I remember when all F.F. did like a novel about a crazy hotel where we took turns in creating series of stories and characters and interacted. I did not really follow up because I got tired of drug references and the octopus that Ben Loory came up with in one room and became obsessed with. Maybe give that an another shot? Or come up with a playscript and then do the play at the next Dorka?

I like the Hunger Games but to be honest, I think the author is trying too hard to get the readers to like the narrator. I would like some flaws in the narrator to make her more real.

Nathaniel Hawthorn's "Blitherdale Romance" comes to mind. It's hard to read but fits in with your theme.