Meh...

A new Russian Sherlock Holmes series?! You have got to be kidding me... And no one knows who the new Holmes will be. Curse them and their suspence!

 Found my copy of the 'Curtain', the last book about Poirot. Hid it again. I never read it and doubt I will any time soon, I just can't. x_x

 Need to go to the stationery store. I seem to have run out of my favourite squared paper. ;_;

 Must. Stop. Pretending. That I am Tolkien. Cause I am not and don't particularly want to be. XD

 And seriously this pain-relief cream mom got me for my back has menthol. Makes me feel like someone chucked ice into my pants. O_O

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I gotta stop rewatching 'The Avengers'. I totally blame Mrs. Emma Peel for my vision of Hunter in a leather catsuit. O_o Attractive, but disturbing on so many levels. How that led to a vision of Josef in silk and lace gown, I simply refuse to analyse. x_x Poor, poor

sentryguardt .

Also, dragons' tails are the best thing ever! Second only to forked tongues. I am sure generals_best will agree with me. XD XD XD

And to finish off, a quote from 'Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World' by Nicholas Ostler:

'... John Brough claims there are fifty synonyms for 'lotus', a favourite concept of Sanskrit poetry in both literal and metaphorical senses. Words tend to have multiple senses anyway: the most straighforward word for lotus, padma has eleven extra senses in the neuter gender (lotus-like ornament, form of a lotus, root of alotus, coloured marks on the face and trunk of an elephant, an army formation, a trillion, lead, a tantric chakra, a mole on the body, a spot, part of a column) and eight more in the masculine (temple, quarter-elephant, species of serpent, Rama, a treasure of Kubera, a mode of sexual enjoyment,a posture in meditation, a treasure connected with magic).'

 

This really gives a new depth to the concept of double-meaning. Now I know what was the reason behind that girl's from Cambridge Uni enthusiasm for Sanskrit: she probably indulged in composing poetry with layers and layers of meaning, just like the original speakers of Sanskrit did.