Quote: Kenneth @ July 28 2009, 4:12 PM BSTGoing Nowhere was the prescient title of a novel that I started and abandoned while still in my teens. Later, in Israel, I was in a band called The Part-Time Nihilists.
Did you take the novel with you?
Yourself in three sentences... Page 7
I went somehere today! But not very far and unfortunately everyone else seemed to be there.
I went to a market today. And an ice cream shop at a farm ('home'-made).
Quote: Aaron @ July 28 2009, 5:19 PM BSTI went to a market today. And an ice cream shop at a farm ('home'-made).
'home'-made ice cream or farm? I mean was it just a bunch of cats tied together with kids selling Magnums in their back garden?
Another one of those threads that people can't wait to post in but never read the replies.
I read it, but couldn't think of anything to post.
Quote: zooo @ July 28 2009, 6:17 PM BSTI read it, but couldn't think of anything to post.
Love. The. Doctor.
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Prefer. Administrator. TBH.
Not really sentences though, strictly.
Quote: Leevil @ July 28 2009, 12:27 AM BSTHard Working. Thoughtful. Cares.
Quote: PhQnix @ July 28 2009, 12:46 AM BSTIf you were talking about Robyn I am quoting you for truth, Lee.
My three sentances :
Huh? What? Me?
Quote: Godot Taxis @ July 28 2009, 6:07 PM BSTAnother one of those threads that people can't wait to post in but never read the replies.
I like this one (though to be fair I haven't read it).
Quote: Marc P @ July 28 2009, 4:27 PM BSTDid you take the novel with you?
No. The whole point of Going Nowhere was to see whether hedonism could make banality bearable (or even more insufferable) on a planet that is Nowheresville. Thank Christ it was abandoned.
Quote: Kenneth @ July 29 2009, 10:46 AM BSTNo. The whole point of Going Nowhere was to see whether hedonism could make banality bearable (or even more insufferable) on a planet that is Nowheresville. Thank Christ it was abandoned.
It was a joke Kenneth in the sense that the book itself was 'going nowhere' both literally and metaphorically inasmuch as you didn't take it with you.
Quote: Marc P @ July 29 2009, 11:05 AM BSTIt was a joke Kenneth in the sense that the book itself was 'going nowhere' both literally and metaphorically inasmuch as you didn't take it with you.
Ah, the English humour and the Australian silence. Yes, I was aware of said joke, but felt it rude not to reply without very clumsily explaining that no matter how far I travel on this planet, I never really go anywhere. In future I shall reply more succinctly with a sincere 
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