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Greetings to my readers from the United Kingdom. My total there shot up by several just in the last few days. I hope to visit there before I die. I would like to show the people from the United Kingdom that Americans are not all idiots; in fact, most of us are just fine people. The history, the literature of the United Kingdom-- nothing beats them. Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats, Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, and George Orwell. 1984 is one of my favorite books of all time. I am also amazed every time I read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. I almost forgot one of my all-time favorites, Chaucer. I remember making an A in a Chaucer class I took with one of the primary reasons for getting that grade being that I read middle English so well. Well, at least I read it the way my instructor thought it should be read. American literature does not have the depth and diversity of English literature. In college, I took English literature I and II, Shakespeare, the Victorian age, the Romantic Age, and Chaucer. I remember a friend of mine stating that we needed to have our kids reading more nonfiction rather than stuff written by dead white Europeans. I thought that was one of the most ridiculous comments I have ever heard.
Well, my dreams of Camelot and the English countryside and the Kathcart castle will have to wait as I come back to the United States. We are under a tornado watch which always scares the hell out of me. Does England have tornadoes. I really don't know for sure. I know they get a lot of rain. Missouri gets everything. Sometimes, in a 24 hour period.
I really should go because I need to grade papers. If I ever went to England, I would have to take myself some coffee. I'm not that big on tea. (I know that's a typical idiotic American stereotype of English lifestyle.) Bye now. If anyone from the United Kingdom wanted to tell me about where he or she lives and works, I would love to hear it.
I live in a small town of less than 1,000 people. Arcadia, MO.
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