Can the adverb "fleetingly" modify a verb? I used this adverb to modify the verb "to catch" in my last entry. Although the grammer of the entire sentence is questionable at best, the only issue under debate is the usage of "fleetingly ( Read more... )

I love that when I use my backpack I sometimes fleetingly catch the sweet aroma of pipe tobacco that is residual since the summer after senior year, when I then there kept a cache.

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"We have passed through Lothlorien, and the gifts and favour of the Lady go with us," [said Aragorn ( Read more... )

And so arrives the first Friday of Excellence ( Read more... )

"'And yet less thanks we have than you. Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. "Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear ( Read more... )

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as most other texts that are concerned with the history of Middle-earth, can be considered part of one large body of text, one cohesive whole. The main character in the text is the liaison between the events in the book and the narrative tone inferred by the reader. The narrative tone is directly ( Read more... )

I had a fun time on Friday night. I was on the cusp of blacking-out for about two hours. That is neat. I remember talking to Brad Echols, Catherine Walker, Scott Coggeshaw, Tice Dunlavy, and Taylor Cappadona, but I have no idea what was said in any of the respective conversations. I threw up. It marked the third time that I've thrown up in an ( Read more... )

I just had a memory. I remembered the music from a movie version of the Chronicles of Narnia, one that I haven't heard in well on 10 years. The music was simple, but carried with it a meaning that profoundly impacted my life. The music portrayed the inherent beauty of the imaginary worlds like Narnia and Middle-earth. It brought those places to ( Read more... )

It's time we start. I realized that I know what I need to know for the journey, I only must will myself to begin. And so, the time has come. This will help me remember why I am going ( Read more... )