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All the great heavies -- Plato, Aristotle, Hume and Heidegger -- are somberly stacked in the bookshelf above my computer. All of western man's great, weighty wisdom. Below, in front of the monitor, a pudgy, piglike bald man in his early 20s kneels and strokes his pink, virginal cock to climax while staring an MPEG feed entitled "Bukkake Bucket IV". |
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IMO there's little relevance to the classics anymore to be read, because they have already been digested and assimilated into culture en masse. One doesn't need to read them, because other scholars have and have compressed and disseminated their lessons. The only point to reading them now is to study their authors auteur-theoretically. Reading is going to be obsolete very soon. |
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this is just disgusting, nothing more |
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you are me 4 or 5 years ago, hello me from the past |
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you're not funny for the reasons you think you are. but this thread is highly amusing, yes. i approve. |
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I am very well read. My bookshelf consists of mostly rollo may, alice miller, sam keen, allan watts, heinz r. pagels and isaac asimov. Still, I stroke my virginal cock to climax while staring at bizarre porn. |
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I think nothing |
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you are what I shall become in two to three years time, greeting me from the future. |
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You are fucked...lol |
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Hello, Blanka-playing-a-MIDI-piccolo. |
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shit.. I take it you're reading English Lit. at Uni, right? |
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Nope |
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does bukkake really do it for you? |
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i'd say i'm quite well read: in the last year i've read: Danté - Divinve Comedy; Inferno John Milton - Paradise Lost Sophocles - Antigone Homer - The Oddesey James Joyce - Ulysses (reading that at the moment) Seamus Heaney - Beowulf i have also enjoyed alot of mordern writers |
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so burn the books, you dont need them |
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Only Nazis burn books |
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thats a hideous generalisation. Soviets burn books too |
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how're you finding Ulysses? What episode are you on now? |
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i think i'm only on like the 5th episode, they're in the newspaper printers. i like it but for practicality reasons i am not liking it. I have alot of other books to read before i go back to uni and Ulysses is really holding me up. I take it you've read it before? |
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ah you're on the 7th, Aeolus. I have; I enjoyed Sirens and Cyclops the best. I totally understand what you mean; I don't think this book was meant for the common man, I imagine 90% of its meaning went straight above my head. It's so jam-packed with allusions and self-indulgent tricks and artistry that it does make for very heavy reading. Still, even when reading stuff I didn't understand the relevance of, I was spurred on by its obvious genius. I only read it that once and I know I could've enjoyed it more; so next time, I'll sit down with an annotated version (my dad has that HUUUGE "" edition which'll serve me well, if not flummox and overwhelm me) and work my way through that. I'd suggest the same to yourself as I know how unenjoyable the long periods of complete and utter perplexity and confusion can be. |
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argh, somehow left this out, in my editing of that post: penelope > cyclops and sirens.. although I don't know whether it was because it was the closing chapter and the final bit of beautiful chaos that resolves into something amazing that the reader is left with, to think about. |
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the books have lots of great songs, why burn them ? |
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i do have an annotated version and it does help, but it still makes it an extrodinarily difficult read. I am looking forward to finishing it. Some of the things he has said so far is are pretty awesome: "You think my words are dark? There are darkness in our souls, do you not agree?" |
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