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CovenantJr wrote:
Menolly wrote:...wishing I had my own copies of Lawhead's Pendragon cycle now...

So is Cornwall the region described in one of the later books? I can't recall specifics, but I think it had to do with the search for the Grail? And finding lost people from Charis' (sp? it's been a long time since I've read them) home?
Cornwall is Llyonesse in the Pendragon Cycle - the region where Belyn and family settle down, and where Morgian eventually battles Myrddin and blinds him. In the books, it's portrayed as slightly eerie and pervaded by an unnatural atmosphere. When I've been there, what it's mainly been pervaded by is cider and surfers.
...sorry, I know it's OT, Cail and dAN...

Yes, Llyonesse is the region in the books I was thinking of. Thanks. :)
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:Matrixman, don't get me wrong. I love "The Nutcracker Suite" with all my heart. It's gorgeous music, a lovely ballet an amazing peice of work. I just get all crazy because people think it's about Christmas and it really isn't. :D

The Nutcracker isn't *about* Christmas but it's a Christmas story. 8)
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High Lord Tolkien wrote:
Cameraman Jenn wrote:Matrixman, don't get me wrong. I love "The Nutcracker Suite" with all my heart. It's gorgeous music, a lovely ballet an amazing peice of work. I just get all crazy because people think it's about Christmas and it really isn't. :D

The Nutcracker isn't *about* Christmas but it's a Christmas story. 8)
I'm with Jenn on this one, HLT. The setting may occur at Chr-stmas, but it could have been at Clara's/Marie's birthday or any gift giving occasion.
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The Sugar Plum Faeries don't visit on birthdays, silly.
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They do if it's your 21st birthday, WF. :beer:

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Wayfriend wrote:The Sugar Plum Faeries don't visit on birthdays, silly.
Why not, if sugar plums are included in the birthday sweets goody bags?
DukkhaWaynhim wrote:They do if it's your 21st birthday, WF. :beer:
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Wayfriend wrote:The Sugar Plum Faeries don't visit on birthdays, silly.
And just having a summer a house plant that magically grows to giant size doesn't really have the same effect as a Christmas tree either, imho.
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Cameraman Jenn wrote: THE NUTCRACKER is not about CHRISTMAS! THE ONLY THING THAT IN ANY WAY RELATES TO CHRISTMAS IS THAT IT TAKES PLACE DURING CHRISTMAS, THE PIECE IS ABOUT A TEENAGE GIRL'S SEXUAL AWAKENING. IT'S NOT ABOUT CHRISTMAS.

Here's the gist:

It's Christmas, the girl's parents are having a party. They get presents. She gets a nutcracker carved in the form of a soldier. She watches the older girls dancing and being courted and then is sent to bed. She dreams of monster mice trying to kidnap her and then she is heroically rescued by a handsome soldier and then they fly around the world and he shows her dances of the world while riding with her on her BED. Then they dance together. End of diatribe. :P

You need it bad.
I can't believe you just perverted the Nutcracker like that!
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High Lord Tolkien wrote:
Wayfriend wrote:The Sugar Plum Faeries don't visit on birthdays, silly.
And just having a summer a house plant that magically grows to giant size doesn't really have the same effect as a Christmas tree either, imho.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...

But the shrinking could be implied in other ways.
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Check out this a=CD:

www.christmasinthenorthwest.com/eight.asp


ESPECIALLY song #1...I just LOOOOVE "On Christmas Day"... the lazy and warm feeling...MMMM
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Michael Bolton ... music's version of the Anti-Christ

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My sincere apologies for offending anyone who likes Mr. Bolton --- this is purely a knee-jerk reaction.
Every mornign I go in to this place to get a coffee and bagel and they usually have some great music playing (Louis Armstrong, BB King, Nat King Cole..) but lately, for Christmas season, they have been playing Xmas music ... firstly, I like Christmas music. But recently, everyday I have come in and they have been playing Xmas music sung by Mr. Bolton...
No one can utterly butcher a half-decent Xmas song like him! GOD! Overdone. Cheesy. Callous-I'm-trying'too-hard-to-seem-sincere warbling!!! GAHHHHHHH!!!!!

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I love all the Very Special Christmas albums.

Aimee Mann's One More Drifter in the Snow (especially Calling On Mary)
Over the Rhine's Snow Angels

Dido's - Christmas Day
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