aristof_ns
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« Reply #30 on: June 05, 2008, 11:38:35 AM » |
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nah -- I was thinking of J.S. Bach's son, Johann Christian Bach... ;)
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Is not American literature the minor literature par excellence, insofar as America claims to federate the most diverse minorities, “a Nation swarming with nations”? —Gilles Deleuze
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« Reply #31 on: June 07, 2008, 12:58:32 PM » |
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Heh, especially given that FSF had only one child, a daughter, Scottie.
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Fear my Righteous Scepter of Wrath! (with thanks to prof. viola)
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dellaroux
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« Reply #32 on: June 07, 2008, 01:13:07 PM » |
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I zoomed through Tuckman's A Distant Mirror in the week after I handed in my M.A. thesis....some kind of mental dieseling, I thought even then...
And I re-re-re-re-read some books forever (great for going to sleep by, they don't keep you awake wondering what happened, 'cause you already know) and others have a run on and then am done. Just read 4 of Eliot Pattison's Tibeten/Chinese mysteries...well-done but now I think I've gotten the idea, don't know if I'll read more or not.
Best mysteries: Grafton, Parker, Frazer (Sr. Frevisse lives in her era, Bro. Cadfleur is just visiting his) are my favorites.
Worst book ever: Da Vinci Codes. I finished it to see what all the fuss was about but as a medievalist, I was furious by p. 100. The early Merovingians were about the least Christ-like people available...and for a study of the mysterious in semiotic terms, The Name of the Rose was just all-round better.
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Ballo non bello parare
How am I?: There are four levels: Alive, Alert, Awake & Functioning. Right now, I'm standing upright & moving forward.
We are gifted superfluously--the cosmos is more generous than we can ask or imagine.
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« Reply #33 on: June 07, 2008, 01:50:16 PM » |
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Heh, especially given that FSF had only one child, a daughter, Scottie.
First I learn by ari that FSF's son was not JCF; now, that he didn't even have a son, but a daughter! And I who was so elated about my magnificent psychic dyslexic powers... |
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dellaroux
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« Reply #34 on: June 07, 2008, 02:08:32 PM » |
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Heh, especially given that FSF had only one child, a daughter, Scottie.
First I learn by ari that FSF's son was not JCF; now, that he didn't even have a son, but a daughter! And I who was so elated about my magnificent psychic dyslexic powers... But, isn't psychic dyslexia oxymoronic? I mean, if you could know in advance which was the right way... :--} dellaroux |
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Pax in terra choreagibus
Ballo non bello parare
How am I?: There are four levels: Alive, Alert, Awake & Functioning. Right now, I'm standing upright & moving forward.
We are gifted superfluously--the cosmos is more generous than we can ask or imagine.
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« Reply #35 on: June 07, 2008, 02:55:51 PM » |
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Which reminds me... it's been way too many moons to be explicit here since I read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, but I do remember something about an elevator which was supposed to guess which floor you wanted, but then it messed up everything because of that... I don't remember the actual joke details...
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« Reply #36 on: June 07, 2008, 05:26:54 PM » |
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You know, I never did understand the big deal with the Great Gatsby. Read it, like, three times but can't even remember what happens.
Everybody has money, but they're all miserable. There's also a green light. |
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scheherazade
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« Reply #37 on: June 07, 2008, 10:21:46 PM » |
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You know, I never did understand the big deal with the Great Gatsby. Read it, like, three times but can't even remember what happens.
Everybody has money, but they're all miserable. There's also a green light. And a fancy car. |
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You historians disturb me sometimes. |
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« Reply #38 on: June 08, 2008, 08:40:39 AM » |
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You know, I never did understand the big deal with the Great Gatsby. Read it, like, three times but can't even remember what happens.
Everybody has money, but they're all miserable. There's also a green light. And a fancy car. Oh, and you can't really have the woman you want, and if you did get her, you'd find out she isn't the goddess you thought she was when you didn't have her. |
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"People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff." - the Doctor
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jackit
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« Reply #39 on: June 09, 2008, 10:22:52 AM » |
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You know, I never did understand the big deal with the Great Gatsby. Read it, like, three times but can't even remember what happens.
Everybody has money, but they're all miserable. There's also a green light. And a fancy car. Oh, and you can't really have the woman you want, and if you did get her, you'd find out she isn't the goddess you thought she was when you didn't have her. The Rich aren't like us. |
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aglaura
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« Reply #40 on: June 19, 2008, 03:12:41 PM » |
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The Brothers Karamazov (worth it)
Ulysses (what?) I don't get the genius of Joyce.
I almost never stop reading a book, even if it's bad. I just keep thinking it might get better. Especially if it's supposed "literature" and I feel like it's supposed to be worthwhile.
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"Gray's my favorite color. I felt so symbolic yesterday." --Counting Crows
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