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Re-read books
A really good book is one you will want to read a second time, even though you know how it comes out. A great book is one you will read 3, 4 or more times (or every couple years or so). A mystery novel/story which you read over and over is a great work of literature, and I have a large number of them which I have read 10 or more times and expect to keep on reading every so often. A serious reader is one who can read a book more than once and enjoy it. We are a vanishing breed already (seems as though few young people read books much any more for pleasure) and may get even scarcer as the net and the TV and talking books replace our dear, cherished hard-copy books.
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Dear bridget96: Interesting that Phlegethon and phlogiston, are the opposites of phlegmatic and phlegm. The first two are hot, and the second two are cold.
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Tsuwm, you posted: my postaday: is this your Minimum Daily Requirement? 
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The adjective 'stygian' means dark, basically. Interesting to know how this applies to the Styx, if that was
the river of hate.
I understand that stygian does come from Styx, and that it means dark because the Styx is in Hades - a dark, gloomy, even stygian place.
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A serious reader is one who can read a book more than once and enjoy it.
Can you still consider yourself a serious reader if the reason you enjoy the book is that you don't remember the plot or the characters from the previous readings (even though you do remember having read it)? Since my retention leaves something to be desired, I'm beginning to think that what I enjoy is the process of reading. Is that weird?
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An inchoate thought seems to fit the term, IMHO; maybe even an incipient one. I know, it's not just one word, as has already been posted, but inchoate seems appropriate to me. Welcome to Bedlam 
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I stick by "um" as the word most often used by persons whose tongues have been caught in the headlights, but someone who knows French might mint a new bit of blabbery on the lines of faux pa (no matter how it's spelled). I thought one meaning "empty mouthed" or "clipped tongue" or something would be good. (I believe I've often heard my own tongue-tipped words referred to as "idiot" by loved ones.) As long as we're at it, what about one for spellings on the tip of one's fingers?
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Can anyone correctly quote the a sentence from one of Emily Dickinson's letters? My books are not accessible right now. Close as I can get is, "To live is so astonishing, it hardly leaves time for anything else."
Since it's on the tip of my tongue, I thought this as good a place as any.
This is Binky, wishing you a pleasant from the rings of Saturn, signing off.
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Is that weird?
Not at all. I love to read to the extent that I spend a good deal of time reading stuff that isn't worth the time, effort or expense. If I'm at the table alone, as when eating what little breakfast I eat (my wife is out of the house before I get up), I find myself reading labels on bottles, women's shoe catalogs waiting to be discarded, etc.
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), I find myself reading labels on bottles[immensely-relieved-e] so does this mean i'm not the only one in the world with a habit of reading the labels on my shampoo bottles as i wait the requisite 60 seconds for my conditioner to take effect?? do any of you go so far as to say the words in your head, quickly, to see if you can make it all the way down the list without stumbling? (try saying cocomidopropyl hydroxysultane three times fast). even Green shampoos have wonderfully complex ingredient lists
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