Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 25.10.2018 12:46   
      
    AK>> As we say in Russia, I am listening to   
    AH> |i.e. listening to what Paul is saying?   
      
   Yes.   
      
    AK>> and wind it on my whisker.   
    AH> |"winding" would make a better parallelism here.   
      
    AH> Like a man twirling his handlebar moustache? Cute....   
      
   It is a Russian idiom. Long ago, when a person heard an interesting piece of   
   information he would wind his whisker around his finger contemplating it. :)   
   Why does it help to memorize or think? I suspect it is in the same way as nape   
   scratching helps. ;-)   
      
    AK>> I hope I will have some more questions, reading that book.   
      
    AH> As do I! IMHO you ask interesting questions, and if it weren't for   
    AH> people like you I'd be talking to myself & enjoying the echo a lot   
    AH> less. :-))   
      
   Do you know that some people created Fidonet clients for mobile phones and   
   tablet computers. So we can expect that some day new people will join us. IMHO   
   the Fidonet style text messaging makes chats more intelligent. People will   
   recall what the forgot.   
      
    AK>> I read it because a paper book is much better for language   
    AK>> learning than the e-version of a book. I can make marks and   
    AK>> remarks with my pencil.   
      
    AH> I often did that as a university student, when I was reading French   
    AH> novels & had to buy my own textbooks. IMHO the bit you cited here   
    AH> is on a par with some of the flowery descriptions where I made a   
    AH> lot of notes too....   
      
   I wonder when will they invent an e-book where I will be able to make remarks   
   using a digital stylus pen? :)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2018   
      
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