Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu September 23, 2021 5:52 pm
alternatively, we really need another book about homer?
Never read 'im, heard good things about this one.Malloy wrote:fleur is dope
Red Mosquito
What are you currently reading?
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu September 23, 2021 6:02 pm
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri September 24, 2021 7:06 pm
I have had the PJ20 book for 10 years but I just cracked it open for the first time this morning
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri September 24, 2021 8:12 pm
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 27, 2021 6:23 pm
*'erSimple Torture wrote:Never read 'im, heard good things about this one.Malloy wrote:fleur is dope
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 27, 2021 6:25 pm
Whoops!Malloy wrote:*'erSimple Torture wrote:Never read 'im, heard good things about this one.Malloy wrote:fleur is dope
(I've got about 15 mins left in this book; not my cup of tea so far, but I think I'd be more into it on a re-read.)
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:35 am
prayers that i can stick with this please
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:42 am
it's good. you'll be fine.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:prayers that i can stick with this please
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:49 am
after all these years, you still haven't read jude the obscure have you?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:prayers that i can stick with this please
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:49 am
i've seen the first few seasons of the show, but no idea how or when it deviatesdad wrote:it's good. you'll be fine.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:prayers that i can stick with this please
but this has less to do with my enjoyment and more to do with my concentration, laziness, retardation
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:50 am
well, for starters, that book was written in the mid-80s.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i've seen the first few seasons of the show, but no idea how or when it deviatesdad wrote:it's good. you'll be fine.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:prayers that i can stick with this please
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:58 am
so i should picture everyone in these:dad wrote:well, for starters, that book was written in the mid-80s.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i've seen the first few seasons of the show, but no idea how or when it deviatesdad wrote:it's good. you'll be fine.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:prayers that i can stick with this please
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 1:59 am
that's what i pictured when i read it.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:so i should picture everyone in these:dad wrote:well, for starters, that book was written in the mid-80s.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i've seen the first few seasons of the show, but no idea how or when it deviatesdad wrote:it's good. you'll be fine.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:prayers that i can stick with this please
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 2:04 am
i wish i could get a different mental image of everything when i read that is not exactly like the show
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 2:05 am
i'm not going to read it any time soon, but today i bought an edition of The Princess Bride...God bless S. Morgenstern
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 2:08 am
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 2:10 am
shouldn't you be watching Survivor instead?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 2:12 am
Wednesdays, my friend.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:shouldn't you be watching Survivor instead?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 29, 2021 2:13 am
teach me how to be more disciplined with my timeSimple Torture wrote:Wednesdays, my friend.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:shouldn't you be watching Survivor instead?
first step: signing off here
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 04, 2021 2:55 pm
I love how in the midst of some nice lyric poetry about nature and love, he drops a truth bomb in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell about how Jesus and Satan are on the same team, good and evil are subjective, and organized religion is the devil.
Very Nietzsche before Nietzsche
Great lines:
"The Devil answered ... I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules."
"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
"to angels, Genius looks like torment and insanity."
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."(Ressentiment)
"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
"Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead."
"The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse how he shall take his prey." (Master/slave morality)
"The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the Genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects. Thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast."
Best of all:
"I have also the Bible of Hell, which the world shall have whether they will or no. One law for the lion and ox is Oppression."