On 12/29/2016 01:14 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I wonder how many of us come to Shakespeare other than through school
syllabi?
Year ten. Ten book reports required, one had to be poetry, one had to be
a play, and one had to be presented to the class orally.
I went for all three at once, plus volu
I wonder how many of us come to Shakespeare other than through school
syllabi? And how many of the present young adults enjoy the Bard?
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently.
> To quote Ramu from then
Oh, and when I was down with fever, I picked up Love in the Time of
Cholera. I still remember clearly that, for some reason, I started reading
it from Page 77 and couldn't stop. I read it right through to the last page
and then read page 1 to 76. Amazing writer, that Marquez!
On Dec 29, 2016 10:41
Two years ago, I fractured my foot and was laid low for a month. That
helped me read up on financial planning and substantially clean up my
finances. Very helpful, that was :-)
On Dec 29, 2016 10:41 AM, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote:
> I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation re
On 29/12/16 6:53 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote:
Give me some enforced downtime and I'll write an ode to the person
responsible for said downtime. Probably.
Considering your dated phone, you'll get some un-enforced downtime
shortly.
--
Cheers,
Venkat
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?
>
All my time seems to be downtime, duly enforced by my Bengali genes for
laziness, but while I don't have anything personal to relate, the phrase
On 29 December 2016 at 10:40, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently.
> To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?)
> [...]
>
> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?
>
>
1. When I was a senior in high school (age 17) I became ill with something or
other. Some kind of flu, probably. It only lasted about 3 days, but during that
time I was feverish, almost delirious. But somehow I managed to read a good
chunk of Lord of the Rings — in 1970, when this book was havin
I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently.
To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?)
I read voluminously, but my most vivid reading experience was during a
summer vacation at my family's Kottayam (Kerala) rubber plantation,
surrounded by bucolic co
