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Apr-30-16
 | | Domdaniel: There's a murderous cult who claim that the move 3...Bb4+ is wrong, and forbidden by God. They're called Bogo Haram. |
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| May-01-16 | | luftforlife: <Domdaniel>: Thanks for your comment in the <cg> forum. I hope my following comments will not be out-of-order. I recall being terribly disappointed upon learning that a judge whose writings I sometimes admired did not natively use in everyday speech the words he inserted in his judicial opinions. He admitted in an interview with a third party that he purposefully gathered words from dictionaries and lexicons -- including words that were truly and needlessly obscure -- to use them in an artificial and intentionally sesquipedalian way, merely to make his opinions more "entertaining." His penchant in this regard was an impediment to understanding, and proved counterproductive. As my freshman philosophy professor wisely instructed, a trip to the dictionary should always prove rewarding, and the journeys this man's language occasioned became arid rituals of meaningless form (to quote from a judicial opinion he did not write). I had suspected his arch tone and love of the long word were contrivances, and both his revelations made in the interview and my experience appearing before him at oral argument confirmed my suspicion. In person he was a fine jurist, and used pedestrian language in posing questions from the bench and in colloquies with counsel, without artifice or pretense. But the magic of his language had vanished, for his verbal legerdemain had proved but a ruse. For my own part, my vocabulary is entirely natural. Though no one here would know this, I write just as I speak; the words are there, and I use them as well as I can do, hoping always to avoid pitfalls. I don't emulate William F. Buckley Jr., but I do feel a kinship with him. I often follow Ezra Pound's advice to writers (derived from Ford Madox Ford): "Get a dictionary and learn the meanings of words." I use my vocabulary, as Michael Reck describes Pound's use of his own, "not for parade or show," but naturally, hoping always to find les mots justes. My speech and writing are ingenuous, but nonetheless may be ineffectual. I do modulate my approach somewhat to fit the circumstances. Eugene O'Neill was a great expository writer despite his tin ear for verse, and in my communications with grandmasters and chess-historians, I do emulate what Hamilton Basso called his "full-dress" style -- and this so far has worked universally well. I wouldn't go so far as to inhabit personae as Pound did, though in so doing he found a remarkable range of apt expression and genuine connection, and I wouldn't characterize myself either as Michael Herr did his beloved colleague, Vietnam-War photographer Tim Page ("He had only one way of speaking, it could have been to me or to the Queen, it didn't matter."). I suppose my vocabulary -- the collective imprints left upon what was originally, but no longer is, a completely retentive memory -- reflects catholic tastes in reading and intellectual investigation, and amounts to a chrestomathy of discoveries and epiphanies, each one cherished and treasured and catalogued for further (and often, but no longer always, instantaneous) reference. Paddy Kavanagh's lament in Anthony Cronin's Dead as Doornails rings true: once Kavanagh knew he was creatively finished, he envied the blaze as Auden burned the "lumber" of his "well-stocked mind" -- the intellectual fuel he had gathered and amassed from his readings in philosophy and psychology, as well as from his creative endeavors. Fortunately, though my mind is in decline (hence my occasional chess blunders, interlarded with analyses slightly sounder, if still tenderfooted and inexpert), its fires still glow with embers tended long ago, and they offer some small measure of refulgence amidst the darkling plain. |
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| May-01-16 | | User not found: Wow. And I came to swallow another dictionary too, lol! No disrespect <luftforlife> but <tpstar> obviously thinks you're someone called Limpy Urcan (I kid you not!) so if you have any issues with anyone on this site go take it up with him.. Anyways.. Dom. Did you mean me when you mentioned the statistics in the help forum? *lifts glasses and exposes himself as Sir Edmund Blackadder*? Well if so that's a very good question that Daniel Freeman will never answer. However.. I will answer, lol. Basically I have a homosexual Brazilian stalker who's developed an infatuation with me over 3 years and it's affected my real life. I asked Freeman to delete my username so I don't spawn another weirdo homosexual (I know you think I'm kidding about this because I always joke around but I'm 100% deadly serious) stalker and he's deleted my username but not the posts.. He needs to cover his ass when it hits the fan and I can <prove> to anyone here who doubts me <exactly> what's been going on. If I recall correctly you could go back through your forum to 2013 when someone followed me here saying this that and the third, his posts aren't here no longer but <ours> most certainly are. You'll see what's going on very very soon but we're all on a sinking ship basically. I have nothing personal against Daniel Freeman but he had the opportunity to do something and he didn't take it, so tough on him. |
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May-02-16
| | Domdaniel: <luftforlife> Thanks for that. I probably still understand a vast number of words, the result of wide reading and a collection of dictionaries. But I find that these days I'm less inclined to use the more exotic specimens in practice: perhaps my time as a journalist showed me that relative simplicity can be a virtue. There is something Nabokovian about your style, I think. |
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May-02-16
| | Domdaniel: <User not found> You're that Mark Twain, aintcha? How's Huck Finn? Brazil nuts, eh? They wax and they wane. |
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May-02-16
| | Domdaniel: This post, #27,690, brings me level with <acirce> - the former #1 poster who hasn't been seen for a few years. In the meantime, several others have accelerated past him: the lead is now somewhere north of 47000. |
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| May-02-16 | | User not found: Hi Dom.. Yes it's me Huckleberry Finn. Lol. And to answer your question in the support forum I asked for my real name removing from the site. Daniel's got a lot on right now and even though I've nothing against him personally he'll be "asked nicely" for the posts deleting too this week. I'm guessing you've noticed what's been going on since the end of 2013 so you hit the nail on the head. Brazil nuts! And I never realized that I was 15th on the list, some achievement to say I've had about 10 suspensions too. And Leicester City finally won the Premier League! Unbelievable, I'm sooooo happy for them. Danny Baker, English Radio DJ and part time TV show host just tweeted "Leicester shouldn't have an open top bus parade. The Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal players should <carry> them on their shoulders!". All their players are 25 million pound players at the least and little Leicester City just pipped them all to the title. I know you're a bit older than me so you probably remember Notts Forrest winning the old Division 1 in 1977 (78?) but this is definitely the biggest shock in modern football. |
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| May-02-16 | | morfishine: <Domdaniel> We don't converse much, but I'd like to say I do enjoy your posts and I particularly like your references to books and/or book reading from time to time People do not appreciate that the simple act of holding a book & reading it is much more effective for comprehension vs computer reading or Kindle: Holding an actual book brings in the sensory components of holding, feeling, and seeing, which improves comprehension. This is a fact Best always, morf
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| May-02-16 | | luftforlife: <Domdaniel>: Thanks for your comments; I'm glad you were receptive to mine. I've always found Nabokov's style happily lapidary in its self-conscious recordings of the processes and awareness of perception -- especially of sensory perception. His style is by turns introverted and painstakingly reflexive in consideration of consequences, and extroverted and playfully precise in praxis of perception (to borrow a phrase Allen Ginsberg used to praise Pound's sequential visual imagery in The Cantos). He's more phenomenological than Faulkner, whose abstractions pall, but not nearly so protracted as Henry James, whose periphrasations pale. I've enjoyed his work (Pnin in particular), and I appreciate your finding some similitude between my writing style and his. He's a master of language, and I'm merely an acolyte, and so I'm flattered. I am sure you are a successful and a first-rate journalist. I seem to recall reading here that you are, or were, a highly regarded drama critic writing for an Irish newspaper; I hope I'm not too far off in that regard. I once was an aspiring actor: I studied Shakespeare with Paul Rogers (and, very briefly, with Brian Cox) some thirty years ago this midsummer, in a program at Oxford, and I cherish those memories. It was the Dean of the Yale School of Drama (with whom I was friendly there; he was my mentor-in-Chekhov, and in life, and he ran a great poker game) who both encouraged me to continue and convinced me to quit. I couldn't compete with my classmate (now a well-known stage and motion-picture character actor), and I didn't want to try. Acting was always so amorphous, anyway, depending at heart on a talent insusceptible of being taught; one either could act (in which case, one could refine one's "craft"), or one couldn't. I loved the drama, and others praised my acting, but I couldn't find much that was praiseworthy in it, and, as Bob Dylan once put it, it's hard to hear that others dig you when you yourself don't dig you. Anyway, I should love to read your work, for your empathy is as evident as your erudition, and your literary skill (at least in your profile, which was not so purple in its prose stylings as to prove offputting) is surpassingly captivating. Best regards. |
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May-03-16
| | Domdaniel: <Mark> Yeah, I remember Clough's Notts Forest ... but this Leicester win is much more dramatic. Brilliant. Seismic. Earthquakish. We should enjoy it now, cos next year matters will return to normal, with Arsenal, Chelsea, and the two Manchester clubs on top, in some order. And maybe Liverpool. This year they were all caught napping. Amazing that Mark Selby from Leicester also won the snooker ch'ship. I almost believe in the magic of King Richard. |
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| May-03-16 | | User not found: <We should enjoy it now, cos next year matters will return to normal, with Arsenal, Chelsea, and the two Manchester clubs on top, in some order. And maybe Liverpool. This year they were all caught napping.> Absolutely, and unfortunately we won't see something like that again in our lifetimes. Well every 40 years and I damned sure I'll have shuffled off this mortal coil by then, but if anyone is reading this in 2056 and Bradford City win the Premier league. Have a drink on me, pour out some liquor :) <Amazing that Mark Selby from Leicester also won the snooker ch'ship. I almost believe in the magic of King Richard.> This is probably the first time since the Steve Davis/Jimmy White days I haven't even paid attention to the snooker final, but I thought he'd won! My bad, lol. Who do you support football wise, Dom? Do you have a soft spot for any English club? |
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May-07-16
| | Domdaniel: <Mark> I don't really *support* any particular club. Of course I'm thrilled about Leicester - and I can even claim a small local connection, as my uncle used to live there. I remember going to a new secondary school age 13, and along with the other new guy rituals - mostly involving fights - I was asked who I supported. I said Newcastle, for reasons that now escape me. I'd like to see Liverpool win something. And I suppose I have a soft spot for Arsenal. Well, for their manager anyway. But Claudio is the Man. |
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| May-10-16 | | User not found: Hi Mr Domdaniel (!?). Well here I am in Malaga and I just received an email from a unicorn talking full Yoda. "Visit the support forum you must. Only then will a Sith lord you become" I just want to say thanks to both you and Rogge for the support but it's not needed. Most people who play chess don't play on until checkmate but a certain person here is gonna play till he gets back ranked by 2 crooks, I mean Rooks. The racist doctor doesn't like to expose his students to criminality I see. Hmmm. I wonder what they'd think about "The black mans prayer?". As for the Brazil nut he's no idea what's coming to him, I sent not even 5% of the proof to a mutual friend of ours the other week. But as long as Dr Death doesn't exaggerate I don't care LOL. :) Seriously thanks. I'll be back in a week or so, tell Rogge I said thanks too. This site would be so boring https://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY |
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May-12-16
| | Domdaniel: <User not found> Yeah, that mutual friend passed on your message of thanks, and also filled me in a little bit on what the war criminal had been up to. Horrible stuff - you've been through the mill, I guess. My sympathy, and I hope you get the bastard. |
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May-12-16
| | Domdaniel: <morf> Thanks for your comments. Yes, I like books. Yes, I still read them. And I still find it amazing that some (many?) people don't. Whether it's English literature students who don't read novels (I used to teach a few of those) or young chess players who only use computers, not books. |
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| May-12-16 | | User not found: <Domdaniel: <User not found> Yeah, that mutual friend passed on your message of thanks, and also filled me in a little bit on what the war criminal had been up to.> And that was just 10 mins of taking random screenshots, Dom. It goes wayyyy deeper! <Horrible stuff - you've been through the mill, I guess. My sympathy, and I hope you get the bastard> Dom. If he lived in England I'd have drove to his house and probably been in the slammer by now. But legally? Oh I will. He's <no idea> what's coming to him. And yeah I just wanted to say it was very kind yet unexpected of you to say what you did, but I do appreciate it. I only regret 2 things I've ever said on this site and you know about one of them. Anyways, he followed me here the other night but deleted his post. I keep popping in and taking screenshots on the advice of my solicitor and police. He's apparently a lawyer you know!? Smh. Thanks again, Dom. And we need to play a game one night? I beat Shams a few weeks ago and he's about 2250. Don't think he appreciated me denting his rating, lol. Take care mate. |
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May-12-16
| | Domdaniel: <LuftforLife> You studied with Brian Cox? I interviewed him once. An incredible talent. His version of Hannibal Lektor was chilling. |
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May-12-16
| | Domdaniel: Deletions over yonder:
Soze said: <Yo no soy tu compadre, bastardo> I replied: <Yo no soy tu bastardo, compadre> Both were deleted. |
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| May-12-16 | | User not found: As long as the those Bastardo posts were deleted :) Fancy a game sometime next week on Lichess or chess24, Dom? I get the white pieces though, I've got into a terrible habit and plus... Would tpstar touch a black bishop? In fact don't answer that, lol ;) |
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May-12-16
| | Domdaniel: <Luftforlife> Pnin is also one of my favorites. After the bravura technique of Pale Fire, the daring of Lolita, the strangeness and charm of Ada, the chess specificity of The Defence, und so weiter. I should mention The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Look at the Harlequins ... and The Gift/ Dar. And so on. But Pnin is wonderful... |
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| May-12-16 | | morfishine: <Domdaniel> You know, I got to thinking, I cannot recall anytime over the past 20 years or so, when I was not reading a book. I've always had a book around the house (sometimes more than 1) with a book mark sticking out of it. I literally read every day without fail. The subject matter is primarily centered on the American Civil War, WWII, the Kennedy assassination, a chess book, or some interesting biography I noticed at the book store. While this seems limited, the source matter is almost boundless as I try to re-verify by reading multiple accounts on the same subject by different authors. In this way, I feel I get the truest picture by seeing different perspectives. Occasionally, I'll pickup a book on a different subject matter like humor or martial arts or perhaps wildlife. In any case, I'm always reading and heartily encourage others to read too. Looking at Kindle does not get the job done: One must be holding the actual book I just noticed, you have almost 1,000 pages in your own forum. That in itself deserves some sort of award Best, morf
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| May-13-16 | | luftforlife: <Domdaniel>: Thanks for your replies. I studied very briefly with Brian Cox -- which is to say he came to stay at Oxford during my time there at the Yale School of Drama program I was attending, and I presented to him an obscure Shakespearean monologue my then-girlfriend (a would-be director) was urging me to develop as an audition piece for admission to YSD. He was kindly indulgent, and gave me a few pointers. Mostly, though, he just looked out for me during my time there. He made a special effort to shepherd me along; he was truly kind. He was dynamic, charismatic, and a powerful actor; he was also friendly and decent and solicitous. My American girlfriend broke up with me while I was over there, and I was lost, and he helped me to stay on the right track. I watched him on the London stage in The Danton Affair, and he blew me right out of my seat with the force of his performance. Some days later, as I was leaving Oxford for good, and was quite dishevelled, he took the time to check that I was on the last bus headed for the airport, and he gave me parting words of encouragement that helped me to recover from the romantic blow my girlfriend had dealt me. I've quite forgotten her thirty years on, but I'll always remember the blazing talent and genuine personal warmth of Brian Cox. An amazing guy. |
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| May-14-16 | | luftforlife: <Domdaniel>: It's been a long while since I read Pnin, but I still remember the thrill of epiphany when I read therein about the colors of shadows. I had thought I'd seen them myself, but I'd dismissed my perceptions as mere aberrations, or fanciful imaginings. Suddenly, I realized I was not alone, at least not completely, for somewhere there was a kindred spirit, someone who noticed such things too, and found them worthy of mention. |
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| May-14-16 | | luftforlife: <Domdaniel>: Reread your profile; never grows tiresome. Three chestnuts fell from the same tree (don Juan showed Carlos, and Marguerita told Tom): "Je est un autre." -- Arthur Rimbaud
"Love hides in molecular structures." -- J.D. Morrison "The restoration of honor is also in my blood." -- Bob Dylan |
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| May-15-16 | | Alien Math: Domdaniel words are not enough to note your contribution towards our learning, nothing could replace your faith that we could learn before you there was doubt, and google translate |
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