Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Paul Quinn:   
      
    AK>  As we say in Russia, I am listening to   
          |i.e. listening to what Paul is saying?   
      
    AK>  and wind it on my whisker. ;-)   
          |"winding" would make a better parallelism here.   
      
      
              Like a man twirling his handlebar moustache?  Cute....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AK>  I hope I will have some more questions,   
    AK>  reading that book.   
      
      
              As do I!  IMHO you ask interesting questions, and if it weren't for   
   people like you I'd be talking to myself & enjoying the echo a lot less.  :-))   
      
      
      
    AK>  I read it because a paper book is much better for   
    AK>  language learning than the e-version of a book. I   
    AK>  can make marks and remarks with my pencil.   
      
      
              I often did that as a university student, when I was reading French   
   novels & had to buy my own textbooks.  IMHO the bit you cited here is on a par   
   with some of the flowery descriptions where I made a lot of notes too....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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