PICTURE THIS!!! - The new picture thread of YOU!

[Ruaidhri]

There are two 3 shelf bookcases stacked there, and two more out of the picture to the left.....rather than try to list what's there, here's a closer look. Missing from the first picture is a collection of Edgar Allen Poe stories, because I'm reading it right now. I need more book shelves, too, as I've got a bunch of bankers boxes full of the rest of what I own. My dream is to have a house with one room converted into a little library.

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Oh, this is fantastic! Beautiful. Thanks for sharing these.
I think my favorite among those is either Lord of the Rings or Dracula. Is Dracula the unabridged original? It looks so relatively thin and I can't make out what it says next to the title.

I have the same plan, by the way. I'm going to fill up the walls with books, until one doesn't know anymore whether this particular part of the house/apartment is being supported concrete or books.

Oh man, are you single?

It is an unabridged copy of Dracula. It's thin but the book itself has a lot of width to the pages. It has a felt cover with numerous Hildebrandt brothers paintings and pencil illustrations in it. Beautiful book!

My personal favorites on those shelves are The Snow Queen, The Forever War, and The Years of Rice and Salt.

 

[Holdfast]

It's kind of weird when you think about it though.

England "should" have gone with more rational designs based on some elements of its background - Protestantism, Reason, etc, etc and France "should" have ended up with the more romantic, open spaces. But I suspect it stems from more the different political culture (parliamentary vs absolute monarch) leading to a different perspective on the function of a country house?

Not necessarily weird. Especially literary romanticism was strong in England in the early 19th century. Of course, then the question arises why that was. Maybe you guys just can't live without your candlelight dinners. Or it's this rebellious streak which you've continuously lived out in pottery and plants?

I guess we got bored of chopping off king's heads, so settled for deadheading roses instead.

My hunch is that it was probably a reaction to the severity of the expectation of reason and logic. The garden tendency is probably echoed by stuff like Gothic Revival in architecture and the pre-Raphaelite movement in art as well as the literary trend.

There's a term for this, isn't there? Where we expect nature to conform to popular artistic archetypes so when it looks as it actually does, it seems abnormal? Can't remember what the term is though. Memory Fail.

No idea. But in order not to lose any brainiac points I will just invent a fancy German word which says basically nothing different from what you have just mentioned and then pretend it's too highbrow for you to have remembered it.

So, what you are thinking of is clearly Erinnerungsanpassungssyndrom. It is quite a hard word, no wonder your memory didn't want to strain itself too much.

That's the good thing about German - you can string along as many words as you like to create a fancy term. Shrinkworld is unsurprisingly full of them - Gedankenlautwerden and sensitiverbeziehungswahn are two of the longer ones we use, though the amusingly named schnauzkrampf is probably one of my favourites. Mind you, I have a tendency to witzelsucht which is why I find it funny...

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Germans. Is there anything they can't do?

 

[BigFoot]

^ Cook?

 

[Me-Ike]

Oh man, are you single?

Strangely enough, no one has ever found my idea sexy so far.

It is an unabridged copy of Dracula. It's thin but the book itself has a lot of width to the pages. It has a felt cover with numerous Hildebrandt brothers paintings and pencil illustrations in it. Beautiful book!

That sounds amazing. Where did you get it?
My favorite book in my collection is an old novel by George Eliot. On one of the first pages someone wrote: "To Mary. Christmas 1891."

My personal favorites on those shelves are The Snow Queen, The Forever War, and The Years of Rice and Salt.

I must admit to never having read any of those. I looked them up and must say that the last one sounds quite intruiging.

I guess we got bored of chopping off king's heads, so settled for deadheading roses instead.

And yet, a rose is a rose is a rose is a chop doesn't have the same ring to it.

That's the good thing about German - you can string along as many words as you like to create a fancy term. Shrinkworld is unsurprisingly full of them - Gedankenlautwerden and sensitiverbeziehungswahn are two of the longer ones we use, though the amusingly named schnauzkrampf is probably one of my favourites. Mind you, I have a tendency to witzelsucht which is why I find it funny...

There is such a thing as Witzelsucht? Awesome! Well, probably not for the one suffering from it, but ... I kind of want to walk around proclaiming I have it.

 

[Me-Ike]

Germans. Is there anything they can't do?

You know, no one who speaks German can be an evil man.

 

[Holdfast]

That's the good thing about German - you can string along as many words as you like to create a fancy term. Shrinkworld is unsurprisingly full of them - Gedankenlautwerden and sensitiverbeziehungswahn are two of the longer ones we use, though the amusingly named schnauzkrampf is probably one of my favourites. Mind you, I have a tendency to witzelsucht which is why I find it funny...

There is such a thing as Witzelsucht? Awesome! Well, probably not for the one suffering from it, but ... I kind of want to walk around proclaiming I have it.

There is, there is!

But it generally comes from frontal lobe brain damage, so I doubt you have... oh wait. Never mind. As you were.

 

[Omnius]

Well, I must admit I did go clothes shopping in Ottawa/Montreal. I had a very hard time finding decent shoes though. No shop had my size .

The Dutch are allegedly the tallest people after all. Which quite dramastically minimizes possible international shoe shops for you.

Very true. I could always order shoes in my size, but I'd always like to try them on first. Having size 48 (14 US) feet, is a proverbial pain in the proverbial ass.

^ Cook?

Well, I love a good schnitzel and a good bratwurst!

 

[Laren]

That's the good thing about German - you can string along as many words as you like to create a fancy term. Shrinkworld is unsurprisingly full of them - Gedankenlautwerden and sensitiverbeziehungswahn are two of the longer ones we use, though the amusingly named schnauzkrampf is probably one of my favourites. Mind you, I have a tendency to witzelsucht which is why I find it funny...

There is such a thing as Witzelsucht? Awesome! Well, probably not for the one suffering from it, but ... I kind of want to walk around proclaiming I have it.

There is, there is!

But it generally comes from frontal lobe brain damage, so I doubt you have... oh wait. Never mind. As you were.

So, does Witzelsucht compel you to crack jokes all the time?

 

[Holdfast]

There is such a thing as Witzelsucht? Awesome! Well, probably not for the one suffering from it, but ... I kind of want to walk around proclaiming I have it.

There is, there is!

But it generally comes from frontal lobe brain damage, so I doubt you have... oh wait. Never mind. As you were.

So, does Witzelsucht compel you to crack jokes all the time?

Pretty much.

It's actually an irrestitable tendency for someone to make inappropriate jokes, puns or use juvenile humour. Caused by disinhibition as a result of frontal brain damage.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Germans. Is there anything they can't do?

You know, no one who speaks German can be an evil man.

The Bart, the.

 

[Laren]

There is, there is!

But it generally comes from frontal lobe brain damage, so I doubt you have... oh wait. Never mind. As you were.

So, does Witzelsucht compel you to crack jokes all the time?

Pretty much.

It's actually an irrestitable tendency for someone to make inappropriate jokes, puns or use juvenile humour. Caused by disinhibition as a result of frontal brain damage.

Not a very rare condition, hm?

 

[Ruaidhri]

Oh man, are you single?

Strangely enough, no one has ever found my idea sexy so far.

You can now notch one.

It is an unabridged copy of Dracula. It's thin but the book itself has a lot of width to the pages. It has a felt cover with numerous Hildebrandt brothers paintings and pencil illustrations in it. Beautiful book!

That sounds amazing. Where did you get it?

It was a birthday present from my mother in 1990. I think she just got it at a B Dalton's. Nice find, too, considering it was just a casual birthday gift.

My favorite book in my collection is an old novel by George Eliot. On one of the first pages someone wrote: "To Mary. Christmas 1891."

Neat! The oldest book in my collection is a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar printed in 1923. It's a little battered and without the dust jacket, but that's how it came into my possession so I safeguard it quite a bit. It's in one of the shelving pictures I posted, to the left of the GRR Martin books, faded red.

 

[Me-Ike]

There is, there is!

But it generally comes from frontal lobe brain damage, so I doubt you have... oh wait. Never mind. As you were.

I'll have you informed that I did indeed have a great fall on my forehead once!
But if you ever imply anything like that again, I will use my nylons for strangulation. And not the good kind!

Very true. I could always order shoes in my size, but I'd always like to try them on first. Having size 48 (14 US) feet, is a proverbial pain in the proverbial ass.

I heard trash bags tied with rope are coming back in style?

^ Cook?

Well, I love a good schnitzel and a good bratwurst!

Well trained!

 

[Ruaidhri]

Well, I must admit I did go clothes shopping in Ottawa/Montreal. I had a very hard time finding decent shoes though. No shop had my size .

The Dutch are allegedly the tallest people after all. Which quite dramastically minimizes possible international shoe shops for you.

Very true. I could always order shoes in my size, but I'd always like to try them on first. Having size 48 (14 US) feet, is a proverbial pain in the proverbial ass.

I suddenly feel very fortunate to have size 8 1/2 feet.

 

[Me-Ike]

You can now notch one.

About time! We people with taste are far too few.

It was a birthday present from my mother in 1990. I think she just got it at a B Dalton's. Nice find, too, considering it was just a casual birthday gift.

Books are always a good birthday gift. Too few people seem to grasp that, so kudos to your mother!

Edit: Just saw the pictures! That really is a wonderful find.
Mine's just a boring old Barnes & Nobles edition.

Neat! The oldest book in my collection is a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar printed in 1923. It's a little battered and without the dust jacket, but that's how it came into my possession so I safeguard it quite a bit. It's in one of the shelving pictures I posted, to the left of the GRR Martin books, faded red.

I see it! Seems to be in a good condition too. At least the back of the book is still attached. Pretty.
Which reminds me, I love the smell of old books.

 

[Holdfast]

So, does Witzelsucht compel you to crack jokes all the time?

Pretty much.

It's actually an irrestitable tendency for someone to make inappropriate jokes, puns or use juvenile humour. Caused by disinhibition as a result of frontal brain damage.

Not a very rare condition, hm?

On this board, it's practically endemic.

I always liked that chapter. Hot.

My favorite book in my collection is an old novel by George Eliot. On one of the first pages someone wrote: "To Mary. Christmas 1891."

Neat! The oldest book in my collection is a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar printed in 1923. It's a little battered and without the dust jacket, but that's how it came into my possession so I safeguard it quite a bit. It's in one of the shelving pictures I posted, to the left of the GRR Martin books, faded red.

I have a copy of Lord Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii from 1905. I think that's the oldest one I have. It's a wonderfully awful novel, made all the more special by its age.

There is, there is!

But it generally comes from frontal lobe brain damage, so I doubt you have... oh wait. Never mind. As you were.

I'll have you informed that I did indeed have a great fall on my forehead once!
But if you ever imply anything like that again, I will use my nylons for strangulation. And not the good kind!

These days, I take what I can get....

 

[Mallory]

Well, I love a good schnitzel and a good bratwurst!

Don't forget the spaetzle and red cabbage! Or the rouladen and sauerbraten. And the bread!

 

[MANT!]

Well, I love a good schnitzel and a good bratwurst!

Don't forget the spaetzle and red cabbage! Or the rouladen and sauerbraten. And the bread!

And the BEER..you must have the beer!!

 

[Mallory]

Well, that's a given.