A poem from my lunch companion Rudyard...(i call him rudy)

[thetuan]

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[teague]

Very nice.

[thetuan]

he is very good..i think that is why he got the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907....lol

[teague]

Well yeeeaaah! *geeky snortsigh*

I'm partial to Emily Dickenson myself. It's probably the geeky, shy, female shut in, in me.

[sidhne]

He was one of my favourites growing up. My mother used to read to me from the Just So Stories. Of course I've handed him down to my own daughter. What would you recommend for adults?

[thetuan]

depends on what you like, there is Kim, all about journeying across india...
or Captains Courageous(a boy comes of age on a New England Cod fishing boat...

loads of short stories, every thing from Stalky and Co.(boarding school stories) to others....I was gifted with a thick volume of most of his works by a dear friend and it accompanies me on lunch every day...he doesnt eat much adn tells the same joke every time, but he never minds if i say"ive hear this oe, skip a bit"...an ideal lunch companion...

[sidhne]

How about some "classic" Kipling? What should I read if I can only read one?

[thetuan]

then i would say Kim... after a few pages you can smell the cardamons, and hear the drone of the Lama chanting...

[fey_touched]

The horrible thing is that I only know this poem from reading Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. ;)

[thetuan]

he has better, I will read them to you if you would like...

[archway]

~warm smile~ You have no idea how magically timed this is...

Thank you.

[thetuan]

kipling is good that way..

[kitsune22]

How timely! I am in the process of doing research on Kipling and the British sense of "other." I read "The Man Who Would Be King" last evening.

[thetuan]

one of my very favorite stories...

[thetuan]

http://www.kipling.org.uk/index.htm