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all the time. publishers like to send out reader's copies of all sorts, so that booksellers can read them and recommend them. keeps me from spending my paychecks on books.

my job (i work author events) also keeps me in regular contact with publisher reps, too, so i can occasionally get a book comped to me.

low pay vs free books. it's a toss up.

drats.

Great posts in the philosophy group. I was beginning to think it was dying in there. Read my new post for an explanation of why my post you replied to seemed late.

why not rats? or why anything? rats seem just as likely as we are (if not more so).

Are you familiar with Splinter the Sensei in TMNT? Yeah, now that's one frikkin' cool rat

I'm afraid the "social critic" hat is available in black only. (I had to look up "taupe" to find out what colour that is... )

The Goethe quote is great. I read his Faust (part 1 only, so far), but did not have time to really savour it. I'll be reading it again, for sure.

(I thought I'd alternate the "comment response protocol" here, and put this one in *my* journal...)

Aww, no other colors? Oh well, black is by far the most universally acceptable color for any clothing garment.

I was reading your profile and i was intrigued that you're into "fish DNA"...what exactly do you do with fish deoxyribonucleic acid?

No, I have never dreamed of my own death -- although I have dreamed of the deaths of other people.

I received your emails. Thanks. There was no need to apologize for your first email.

Yes, I have dreamed of my own death, and the end of the world, and global wrafare, and the total dissolution of my being (that one was weird, and extremly meaningful). I certainly think dreams can mean a lot, but often they are just residual feedback form our days spilling across our neurons while we sleep. But they can be interpreted to such depths, and often seem to be speaking directly to us.

Earlier this evening a friend of mine told me of this dream she had in which two kids came to warn her of her daughter's possible death from high places. She later realized that one of the kids was an old friend who had had a terrible accident, and the other was her duaghter's step sister, who had been brutaly murdered years before. This dream seemed very meaningful to her, if not outright prophetic. But then again, there more you look into anything...

Rats! Well thats got to suck. You sure you weren't eating cheese before you went to bed! You blame me if you want most people blame me for everything anyway!

Welcome to SG!!!

Thanks... glad to be here. I'll try to post something more personal at some point...

I will. And, uh, dude - writing a book review IS expressing yourself...

It is? Rats. Well, don't tell anybody. I have my reputation to think about, ya know. :-)