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My first building/structureis one of the most famous and photographed sites in all the world:

The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris ,France that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, also known as the Place de l'Étoile.[1] It is at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. The triumphal arch honors those who fought for France, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. On the inside and the top of the arc there are all of the names of generals and wars fought. Underneath is the tomb of the unknown soldier from World War I .

The Arc is the linchpin of the historic axis (L'Axe historique) — a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre Palace to the outskirts of Paris. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its Iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail and set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant nationalistic messages, until World War I.

The monument stands 49.5 m (162 ft) in height, 45 m (150 ft) wide and 22 m (72 ft) deep. It is the second largest triumphal arch in existence.[2] Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, marking the end of hostilities in World War I, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured in a newsreel.[3]

 
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With my next pick, I continue the recent run on the Building/Structure category and take this architectural masterpiece......

20.19 - Borobudur - Building/Structure

"The grandeur of Borobudur is something immense, sphinx-like, incomprehensible and yet so fascinating. It overpowers with a sense

of our own incapacity to give a description…. Its enigmas are too many and too great for us to solve, and yet it exercises such a powerful

charm, lays such a hold on the mind that we are irresistibly compelled to use all our powers to discover something of its mysterious being."

-Nicolaus J. Krom

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Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist Monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. A main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside perforated stupa.

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The Borobodur Temple complex is one of the greatest monuments in the world. It is of uncertain age, but thought to have been built between the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century A.D. For about a century and a half it was the spiritual centre of Buddhism in Java, then it was lost until its rediscovery in the eighteenth century.

The structure, composed of 55,000 square meters of lava-rock is erected on a hill in the form of a stepped-pyramid of six rectangular storeys, three circular terraces and a central stupa forming the summit. The whole structure is in the form of a lotus, the sacred flower of Buddha.

For each direction there are ninety-two Dhyani Buddha statues and 1,460 relief scenes. The lowest level has 160 reliefs depicting cause and effect; the middle level contains various stories of the Buddha's life from the Jataka Tales; the highest level has no reliefs or decorations whatsoever but has a balcony, square in shape with round walls: a circle without beginning or end. Here is the place of the ninety-two Vajrasattvas or Dhyani Buddhas tucked into small stupas. Each of these statues has a mudra (hand gesture) indicating one of the five directions: east, with the mudra of calling the earth to witness; south, with the hand position of blessing; west, with the gesture of meditation; north, the mudra of fearlessness; and the centre with the gesture of teaching.

Besides being the highest symbol of Buddhism, the Borobodur stupa is also a replica of the universe. It symbolises the micro-cosmos, which is divided into three levels, in which man's world of desire is influenced by negative impulses; the middle level, the world in which man has control of his negative impulses and uses his positive impulses; the highest level, in which the world of man is no longer bounded by physical and worldly ancient desire.

It is devotional practice to circumambulate around the galleries and terraces always turning to the left and keeping the edifice to the right while either chanting or meditating. In total, Borobodur represents the ten levels of a Bodhisattva's life which he or she must develop to become a Buddha or an awakened one.
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20.15 Gustav Klimt's The Kiss (Painting)

Sorry, don't have a lot of time for a write-up. Just trying to keep things (possibly) moving. Utterly paranoid about my list of possible painting picks after the last few rounds, so I'll secure one of my favorites.

The Kiss (original Der Kuss) was painted by Gustav Klimt, during his ‘golden period’, and is probably his most famous work. It depicts a couple, in various shades of gold and symbols, sharing a kiss against a bronze background.

Two figures are situated at the edge of a flowered escarpment. The man is wearing neutral coloured rectangles and a crown of vines; the woman wears brightly coloured tangent circles and flowers in her hair. The twain’s embrace is enveloped by triangular vining and a veil of concentric circles.

Similarly juxtaposed couples appear in both Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze and Stoclet Frieze.

Some think that Klimt and his beloved companion Emilie Flöge modeled for the masterpiece.

The Kiss is a discreet expression of Klimt’s emphasis on eroticism and the liberation therein. The Kiss falls in line with Klimt’s exploration of fulfillment and the redeeming, transformative power of love and art.[citation needed] The Kiss is deviant from Klimt’s frequent portrayal of women as the lascivious femme fatale.

The piece is currently at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum, which is housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.

Gustav Klimt and "The Kiss" were selected as the main motif for a collectors' coin, the 100 euro gold The Painting coin issued on 5 November 2003. The obverse depicts Klimt in his studio with two unfinished masterpieces on easels, while the reverse shows "Der Kuss" (The Kiss).
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So many great albums still available, but to kick off Team Fennis' album collection, I'm taking the one that changed everything. Since I'm in London, I'll quote The Observer, which states that with this album "put simply...Dylan invented modern rock music".

20.20 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (Album)

From Rolling Stone magazine:

Bruce Springsteen has described the beginning of "Like a Rolling Stone," the opening song on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, as the "snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind." The response of folk singer Phil Ochs to the entire album was even more rhapsodic. "It's impossibly good. . . ." he said. "How can a human mind do this?"

Recorded in a mind-boggling six days and released in August 1965, Highway 61 Revisited — named after the road that runs from Dylan's home state of Minnesota down through the Mississippi Delta — is one of those albums that, quite simply, changed everything. In and of itself, "Like a Rolling Stone," which was rumored to be about Andy Warhol acolyte Edie Sedgwick, forever altered the landscape of popular music — its "vomitific" lyrics (in Dylan's memorable term), literary ambition and sheer length (6:13) shattered limitations of every kind. But that was literally only the beginning. "Ballad of a Thin Man" delivered the definitive Sixties comment on the splintering hip/ straight fault line: "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?" If anyone questioned whether or not Dylan had truly "gone electric," the roaring rock & roll of "From a Buick 6" and "Tombstone Blues" — both powered by legendary guitarist Mike Bloomfield — left absolutely no doubt.

The album ends with "Desolation Row," a swirling eleven-minute surrealist night journey of indescribable power. Confronted with the dilemma of providing an ending to an album so bursting with ideas, Dylan evokes a Hieronymus Bosch-like season in hell that, in retrospect, seems to foretell all the Sixties cataclysms to come. "The Titanic sails at dawn," he sings wearily near the song's end. "Everybody is shouting, 'Which side are you on?' " That "Desolation Row" is an all-acoustic track — a last-minute decision on Dylan's part — is one final stroke of genius: a spellbinding new vision of folk music to close the album that, for the time being at least, destroyed folk music. The gesture was simultaneously touching and a devastating "(censored) you!"

Not that Dylan wasn't having fun all the while as well. The toy siren that opens the album's title track was keyboardist's Al Kooper's playful way of policing the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited. "If anybody started using drugs anywhere," he explained, "I'd walk into the opposite corner of the room and just go whooooooooo."
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ETA: Taking this on Bob Dylan's birthday. :boxing:
 
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So this slowed up a little, huh. Can't blame anyone, the beach was nice yesterday.

Happy Memorial Day and all that. I will be checking in periodically throughout the day and tomorrow. If it makes it to me in a flurry of picks and I'm not here in 15 minutes you can skip me to keep it going. I'll be back on full timeish Tuesday afternoon.

 
Highway 61 Revisited is my favorite Dylan album. Is it the best one? I think so, though there's plenty of debate about that. I especially love "Queen Jane Approximately" and "Desolation Row", two little played but incredible songs.
 
krista4 said:
So many great albums still available, but to kick off Team Fennis' album collection, I'm taking the one that changed everything. Since I'm in London, I'll quote The Observer, which states that with this album "put simply...Dylan invented modern rock music".

20.20 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (Album)
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Niiiiiiiiiiiice. :thumbup:
 
Thanks, guys. I was really happy to get that one. :thumbup:

Sorry, I think the draft slowed up a little with me. The time difference kind of messed things up. I'm coming back Tuesday morning, so if I am up before noon EDT on Tuesday, feel free to skip me after 30 minutes.

 
21.02 - The Golden Gate Bridge - Building/Structure

The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937 and was the longest suspension bridge span in the world at that time, measuring 1.7 miles in length (including approaches). It was the first bridge ever to leap over the mouth of an ocean harbor. It was named one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Some fun facts:

The original building project came in $1.3 million UNDER budget

Only 11 construction workers died during the 4 years it took to build the bridge

- Primarily due to innovative movable safety nets below the construction site

There are 80,000 miles (129,000 km) of wire in each of the two main cables; the total is sufficient to go around the world 5.79 times.

Each cable is 1 yard in diameter

Approximately 100,000 vehicles cross the bridge each day

It has been called the most photographed bridge in the world

The Golden Gate Bridge's paint color is orange vermillion, also called international orange

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21.04 Westminster Abbey (Building/Structure)

If you're looking for a building with an important history, it's pretty hard to top this one. Built originally in 616, this marvelous Cathedral like structure has been the site of coronation of every royal monarch of England since 1066, beginning with Harold and William the Conqueror. It is also the burial site of most of them, along with dozens of other British luminaries including Disraeli, Gladstone, and Winston Churchill. Many famous notables have their burials and monuments in the "Poet's Corner", including Chaucer, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Masefield, John Keats, John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens.

Need I say more? When I visited London, this was by far the most intriguing spot, as it would be for any lover of history, politics, or literature.

 
21.06 Molière's Tartuffe (Play)

Regardless of whether I end up with the highest-ranked group of plays, I'm well-positioned to take the most thoroughly entertaining bunch, which suits me fine. Wonderful use of language, both in the original French and English versions. Fitting, given the silver-tongued nature of the outrageous title character.

Tartuffe (full title: Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite, French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur) is a comedy by Molière that is arguably his most famous play.

As the play begins, the well-off Orgon is convinced that Tartuffe is a man of great religious zeal and fervor. In fact, Tartuffe is a scheming hypocrite. He is interesting as a character in that he gets around Orgon not by telling lies, but by allowing him to use his power as the master of the household over everyone else. By the time Tartuffe is exposed and Orgon renounces him, Tartuffe has legal control of his finances and family, and is about to steal all of his wealth and marry his daughter — all at Orgon's own invitation. At the very last minute, the king intervenes, and Tartuffe is condemned to prison.

It was written and first performed in 1664 at the fêtes held at Versailles and was almost immediately censored by the outcry of the dévots ("devout" [people]), who were very influential in the court of King Louis XIV. While the king had little interest in suppressing the play, he eventually did so because of the dévots. The word dévots referred to those who claimed to be very religious, but as Molière points out in Tartuffe, these same people were often religious hypocrites. As a result of Molière's play, the word "tartuffe" is used in contemporary French and English to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue. The entire play is written in 1,962 12-syllable lines (alexandrines) of rhyming couplets.
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timschochet said:
21.04 Westminster Abbey (Building/Structure)

If you're looking for a building with an important history, it's pretty hard to top this one. Built originally in 616, this marvelous Cathedral like structure has been the site of coronation of every royal monarch of England since 1066, beginning with Harold and William the Conqueror. It is also the burial site of most of them, along with dozens of other British luminaries including Disraeli, Gladstone, and Winston Churchill. Many famous notables have their burials and monuments in the "Poet's Corner", including Chaucer, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Masefield, John Keats, John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens.

Need I say more? When I visited London, this was by far the most intriguing spot, as it would be for any lover of history, politics, or literature.
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krista4 said:
timschochet said:
21.04 Westminster Abbey (Building/Structure)

If you're looking for a building with an important history, it's pretty hard to top this one. Built originally in 616, this marvelous Cathedral like structure has been the site of coronation of every royal monarch of England since 1066, beginning with Harold and William the Conqueror. It is also the burial site of most of them, along with dozens of other British luminaries including Disraeli, Gladstone, and Winston Churchill. Many famous notables have their burials and monuments in the "Poet's Corner", including Chaucer, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Masefield, John Keats, John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens.

Need I say more? When I visited London, this was by far the most intriguing spot, as it would be for any lover of history, politics, or literature.
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That's "I", as in timschochet, not Krista4. But I'm saddened that there's not more love here for the old Abbey and the Arch of Triumph.

 
timschochet said:
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
21.04 Westminster Abbey (Building/Structure)

If you're looking for a building with an important history, it's pretty hard to top this one. Built originally in 616, this marvelous Cathedral like structure has been the site of coronation of every royal monarch of England since 1066, beginning with Harold and William the Conqueror. It is also the burial site of most of them, along with dozens of other British luminaries including Disraeli, Gladstone, and Winston Churchill. Many famous notables have their burials and monuments in the "Poet's Corner", including Chaucer, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Masefield, John Keats, John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens.

Need I say more? When I visited London, this was by far the most intriguing spot, as it would be for any lover of history, politics, or literature.
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That's "I", as in timschochet, not Krista4. But I'm saddened that there's not more love here for the old Abbey and the Arch of Triumph.
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Oh yes? I've bolded further for your enjoyment. I do love the Arc de Triomphe pick.
 
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
21.04 Westminster Abbey (Building/Structure)

If you're looking for a building with an important history, it's pretty hard to top this one. Built originally in 616, this marvelous Cathedral like structure has been the site of coronation of every royal monarch of England since 1066, beginning with Harold and William the Conqueror. It is also the burial site of most of them, along with dozens of other British luminaries including Disraeli, Gladstone, and Winston Churchill. Many famous notables have their burials and monuments in the "Poet's Corner", including Chaucer, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Masefield, John Keats, John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens.

Need I say more? When I visited London, this was by far the most intriguing spot, as it would be for any lover of history, politics, or literature.
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:thumbup: :unsure:
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That's "I", as in timschochet, not Krista4. But I'm saddened that there's not more love here for the old Abbey and the Arch of Triumph.
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Oh yes? I've bolded further for your enjoyment. I do love the Arc de Triomphe pick.
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Oh, that. Well, I can't help it if you don't love history, politics, and literature. Maybe someday you will! ;)
 
timschochet said:
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
21.04 Westminster Abbey (Building/Structure)

If you're looking for a building with an important history, it's pretty hard to top this one. Built originally in 616, this marvelous Cathedral like structure has been the site of coronation of every royal monarch of England since 1066, beginning with Harold and William the Conqueror. It is also the burial site of most of them, along with dozens of other British luminaries including Disraeli, Gladstone, and Winston Churchill. Many famous notables have their burials and monuments in the "Poet's Corner", including Chaucer, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Masefield, John Keats, John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens.

Need I say more? When I visited London, this was by far the most intriguing spot, as it would be for any lover of history, politics, or literature.
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That's "I", as in timschochet, not Krista4. But I'm saddened that there's not more love here for the old Abbey and the Arch of Triumph.
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Oh yes? I've bolded further for your enjoyment. I do love the Arc de Triomphe pick.
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Oh, that. Well, I can't help it if you don't love history, politics, and literature. Maybe someday you will! ;)
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:goodposting: Without spotlighting, I do think there's one more compelling place in London. :)
 
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krista4 said:
:goodposting: Without spotlighting, I do think there's one more compelling place in London. :goodposting:
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I already drafted Tower of London... :goodposting:
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Actually, that was what I was thinking of. I'm in London with my boyfriend husband, who has only been in the airport here. He has NO interest in seeing anything touristy, but I keep telling him that the Tower is a must-see. I do think it's incredible even if you're not interested in the other touristy sites in London.

 
krista4 said:
Oh, and Abrantes, I already know my 22.20--you take it, you die.
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Oh, Mr. Crest, Mr. CrestHow in the world youExpect for me to rest?Oh, Mr. Crest, Mr. CrestHow in the world youExpect for me to rest?You got my 22-20Layin' up across my breastOh, if I send for my babyAn she act a foolAn she don't never comeIf I send for my babyShe act a foolAn she don't never comeAll the doctors in New York CityI declare, they can't help her noneYou know, sometimes she gets unrulyAn she act like she just don't wanna doSometimes she gets unrulyAn she act like she just don't wanna -But I'll get my 22-20I'll cut that woman half in twoOh, your.38 SpecialBuddy, it's most too lightYour .38 SpecialBuddy, it's most too lightBut my 22-20Will make ev'rything, alrightAh-or, your .44-40Buddy, it'll do very wellYour .44-40Buddy, it'll do very wellBut my .22-20I declare you, it's a-burnin' hellI was stranded on the highway-hiWith my 22-20 in my -I was standin' on the highwayWith my 22-20 in my -They got me 'cussed for murderI declare, I never have harmed a manLord, on I measure my gunAn it's just a-long as my right armI measured my gunAn it's just as long as my right -I'm gon' raise me some sandAnd back down the road, I declare.
 
Makeup pick....

20.10 Non-Fiction Book- Confessions, St. Augustine

I've been considering this pick for about 10 rounds and just couldn't wait any longer.

I remember being blown away by the honesty and self-reflection within- not the usual stuff I'm used to seeing and hearing from a man of "faith"; I'm not a religious guy but this still spoke to me deeply. That it was beautifully and compellingly written and done so back in the late 4th century adds to it's astonishing value, IMO, not just within the context of this draft. Should be required reading for believers and non-believers alike.

wikipedia summary:

Summary

The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1000 years of the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work- it does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single individual from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work. In the work St. Augustine writes about how much he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and St. Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins, and writes on the importance of sexual morality. He also mentions that his favorite subject in school was mathematics because it was concrete and more rigorously defined than other subjects. The book is thought to be divisible into chapters which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.
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edit to fix pick number from 19.11 to 20.10
 
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timschochet said:
krista4 said:
Oh, and Abrantes, I already know my 22.20--you take it, you die.
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Oh, Mr. Crest, Mr. CrestHow in the world youExpect for me to rest?Oh, Mr. Crest, Mr. CrestHow in the world youExpect for me to rest?You got my 22-20Layin' up across my breastOh, if I send for my babyAn she act a foolAn she don't never comeIf I send for my babyShe act a foolAn she don't never comeAll the doctors in New York CityI declare, they can't help her noneYou know, sometimes she gets unrulyAn she act like she just don't wanna doSometimes she gets unrulyAn she act like she just don't wanna -But I'll get my 22-20I'll cut that woman half in twoOh, your.38 SpecialBuddy, it's most too lightYour .38 SpecialBuddy, it's most too lightBut my 22-20Will make ev'rything, alrightAh-or, your .44-40Buddy, it'll do very wellYour .44-40Buddy, it'll do very wellBut my .22-20I declare you, it's a-burnin' hellI was stranded on the highway-hiWith my 22-20 in my -I was standin' on the highwayWith my 22-20 in my -They got me 'cussed for murderI declare, I never have harmed a manLord, on I measure my gunAn it's just a-long as my right armI measured my gunAn it's just as long as my right -I'm gon' raise me some sandAnd back down the road, I declare.
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:excited: Purely awesome. :pickle:You've just been waiting, haven't you?
 
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I'm in and out as usual.

Unless you see me actually replying in here right around my pick, ignore my onscreen presence- I'm not usually around the computer (but leave the thread open to make things easy/quick for me to reply) so please feel free to skip me in general

 
El Floppo said:
Makeup pick....

19.11 Non-Fiction Book- Confessions, St. Augustine

I've been considering this pick for about 10 rounds and just couldn't wait any longer.

I remember being blown away by the honesty and self-reflection within- not the usual stuff I'm used to seeing and hearing from a man of "faith"; I'm not a religious guy but this still spoke to me deeply. That it was beautifully and compellingly written and done so back in the late 4th century adds to it's astonishing value, IMO, not just within the context of this draft. Should be required reading for believers and non-believers alike.

wikipedia summary:

Summary

The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1000 years of the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work- it does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single individual from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work. In the work St. Augustine writes about how much he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and St. Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins, and writes on the importance of sexual morality. He also mentions that his favorite subject in school was mathematics because it was concrete and more rigorously defined than other subjects. The book is thought to be divisible into chapters which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.
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Lovely.
 
By the way- I'll have to see when all's said and done, but a likely top point-getter in the Building/Structure cat dropped in the last 5 rounds.

Also- I hate whoever drafted it.

Also Also- A lot of my mental shortlist got cleaned out in the last couple of rounds.

ets: Also Also Also- I hate all of you. :excited:

 
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El Floppo said:
Makeup pick....

19.11 Non-Fiction Book- Confessions, St. Augustine

I've been considering this pick for about 10 rounds and just couldn't wait any longer.

I remember being blown away by the honesty and self-reflection within- not the usual stuff I'm used to seeing and hearing from a man of "faith"; I'm not a religious guy but this still spoke to me deeply. That it was beautifully and compellingly written and done so back in the late 4th century adds to it's astonishing value, IMO, not just within the context of this draft. Should be required reading for believers and non-believers alike.

wikipedia summary:

Summary

The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1000 years of the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work- it does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single individual from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work. In the work St. Augustine writes about how much he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and St. Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins, and writes on the importance of sexual morality. He also mentions that his favorite subject in school was mathematics because it was concrete and more rigorously defined than other subjects. The book is thought to be divisible into chapters which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.
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????nvm. I see it's a make-up for 20.10.

 
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El Floppo said:
By the way- I'll have to see when all's said and done, but a likely top point-getter in the Building/Structure cat dropped in the last 5 rounds.Also- I hate whoever drafted it.Also Also- A lot of my mental shortlist got cleaned out in the last couple of rounds.ets: Also Also Also- I hate all of you. :bye:
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Was it one of my picks? Probably not. :(
 
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