posted July 19, 2004 06:59 PM              

You can order it here at Amazon:::

www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/059566385 0/qid=1090277726/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0614679-4927330?v=glance&s=books

posted July 19, 2004 08:00 PM              

Book Description
Carlo E. Ravin is a self-styled Aquarian Age herald, and, like his contemporaries, is dedicated to furthering the era’s mandate of Knowledge for All. Like Voltaire, the author intends ultimately that nothing enfranchises like education. Love Conquers All is partly a sequel to Venus Trines at Midnight by Linda Goodman, and contains a collection of modern astrological poetry inspired by this great poet and astrologer.

Often playful and puckish, at other times introspective and inquisitive, and sometimes bold and brash, the works within examine archetypal and allegorical themes, events, and characters, and, like Venus Trines at Midnight, is seeded by the word druids and guided by God/dess. Ravin muses and fuses the two languages, arts, and sciences of Astrology and of Love, to explore and to celebrate circumstance, environment, film, and literature through poetry.

Love Conquers All is at once a poetic commentary on la agrodolce vita in turn-of-the-century America, a primer and study guide for the astrology student who yearns for an expansion of the boundaries of astrological expression, and a faithful companion for the knapsack of the humble 21st century traveler and troubadour…in essence, it is a book for you. Join the author in his merry and facile footnoting of a New Millennium of Truth, Beauty, Laughter, and Love, since, after all, love conquers all.

posted July 19, 2004 08:45 PM              

So sue me...

I'll be getting a copy of the book too, and then we can do a "book review" thread for it. It was fun doing those "Opposite Signs" poems anyways.

.gloria

posted July 19, 2004 09:34 PM              

I miss him sometimes, tending to be out of sight during his more brash episodes.
He was always cool to me, even helping out with a very good freebie interp regarding my sis's chart.

posted July 19, 2004 11:31 PM              

And he made my blood boil with his offensiveness and vugarity because it was always directed specifically at another know-flake.

posted July 20, 2004 12:28 AM              

Or get to the bookstore and sample it to see if you'll like it. Maybe there's something he's been holding out from us!!!

(damn - maybe we should all bug him for autographed copies)

Please - everyone - as far as all that history goes, please let's start over - he may come back and read all this stuff we're writing, so best to give him his much deserved accolades, and have one last sexless orgy for good times sake...

(told ya I was twisted)

Nothing is more exciting to a writer than being published and having a good public reception.

CONGRATULATIONS CARLOS - if you read this - from the little people if you remember us ...

(like a pretzel, I tell ya)

posted July 20, 2004 01:34 AM              

How about the library?
You can request it. I'm able to access my library's index online. Can you?
The ISBN is : 0595663850 on that.

Pixie -

Didn't someone mention something about your work being in the book? Or was that the Web site only? Wouldn't it be funny, it if WAS it in the book!! You'd have to buy a copy!!

Either way, his dedicating the book to Linda Goodman would make it important to this thread, in any case. He'd said he was a member for a long time, yet rules were meant to be broken sometimes...

posted July 20, 2004 05:32 AM              

**C**A**R**L**O**

..er I should say cuzzin Carlo....

This here's Daisy Ellen Stubbs....

posted July 20, 2004 05:35 AM              

Gee this is pretty cool! I remember Carlo from the first Linda Goodman site like about five years ago. I believe he was an attorney.

posted July 22, 2004 12:25 PM            

That guy was a p*sser!

posted July 22, 2004 03:04 PM            

sus·pend ( P ) Pronunciation Key (s-spnd)
v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends
v. tr.
To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school.
To cause to stop for a period; interrupt: suspended the trial.

To hold in abeyance; defer: suspend judgment. See Synonyms at defer1.
To render temporarily ineffective: suspend a jail sentence; suspend all parking regulations.
To hang so as to allow free movement: suspended the mobile from the ceiling.
To support or keep from falling without apparent attachment, as by buoyancy: suspend oneself in the water.

v. intr.
To cease for a period; delay.
To fail to make payments or meet obligations.

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[Middle English suspenden, from Old French suspendre, from Latin suspendere : sub-, from below; see sub- + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European Roots.]

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Main Entry: sus·pend
Function: transitive verb
1 : to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function
2 a : to stop temporarily <suspend trading> b : to make temporarily ineffective <suspend a license> c : STAY <suspend a hearing> d : to defer until a later time —see also suspended sentence at SENTENCE

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suspend

\Sus*pend"\, v. i. To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

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suspend

\Sus*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suspended; p. pr. & vb. n. Suspending.] [F. suspendre, or OF. souspendre (where the prefix is L. subtus below, from sub under), L. suspendere, suspensum; pref. sus- (see Sub-) + pendere to hang. See Pedant, and cf. Suspense, n.] 1. To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

2. To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life. [Archaic] --Tillotson.

3. To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

Suspend your indignation against my brother. --Shak.

The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear. --Denham.

4. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion. --Locke.

5. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.

Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. --Bp. Sanderson.

6. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.

7. (Chem.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

To suspend payment (Com.), to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc.

Syn: To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; hinder; debar.

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suspend

v 1: hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them" 2: cause to be held in suspension in a fluid, of particles, in chemistry 3: bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. [syn: debar] 4: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: freeze] 5: make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan" [syn: set aside] 6: as of a prison sentence

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