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    beliefs are for goldfish.

    beliefs are for goldfish.
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    at least 2,500.

    at least 2,500.
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    Poll: me talk pretty one day!

    me talk pretty one day!
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    I don't think it is solely for the...

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    I don't think it is solely for the purpose of acquiring Iraq's oilfields, but can you imagine how much power America would have if it did? There would be no limit to the power of US...
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    I use the term 'European' pretty much...

    where are these quotes from? They're not from anyone I know or would agree with, so I don't need to respond to them. Tell me the source, if you can, and I'll look it up and respond after.

    As for...
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    jeepers!

    where are these quotes from? They're not from anyone I know or would agree with, so I don't need to respond to them. Tell me the source, if you can, and I'll look it up and respond after.

    As for...
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    I know it entails a kind of self-glorification,...

    Do you actually think that Japan is more similar to the US than France is? When I look at or hear French or German nowadays, it just seems like strange English. Give me a break. And there is a...
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    I wish you would have responded to some of the...

    I wish you would have responded to some of the other points I made, namely the points I made about America being the reason WMDs are a "token of a nation's greatness;&quot and America being just...
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    ahem . .

    It's your turn, bud. Just continue where we left off . . . You wanted some sort of justification from me and I gave it to you. You have to battle through the thick barrier of logical arguments that...
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    You're kidding, right? Brave New World, 1984,...

    You're kidding, right? Brave New World, 1984, We; these are all political novels which had a profound impact on the status quo. Everything you and I (and everyone here) have been discussing so far...
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    O rocks!

    I am sorry, have I upset you? I apologize. You talk as if being 'unpatriotic' were the social norm of the day. You are entirely mistaken. Additionally, I don't understand how you -- a student in...
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    erm . . .

    That was probably the worst jusification I have ever heard to the opinion of "patriotism is legit". Patriotism is a form of nationalism that transpired after the fall of the French aristocracy in...
  13. 'The Dead'

    'The Dead' is indeed a James Joyce story from the 'Dubliners'. I was juxtaposing a couple of authors (e.g., Bronte and Joyce) to Henry James. On the subject of Joyce, what do you all believe to be...
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    Re: My two cents . . .

    Orwell can't write fiction, it's a fact. 1984 is packed full of literary and grammatical errors. I'm not saying that it isn't a decent story, but Orwell should have stuck to writing political...
  15. I read 'The Turn of The Screw' in ap english...

    I read 'The Turn of The Screw' in ap english during my senior year in high school, it was atrocious. I'm a fan of ghost stories and whatnot such as 'Wuthering Heights' and, in a round about way, 'The...
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    My two cents . . .

    Orwell can't write fiction, it's a fact. 1984 is packed full of literary and grammatical errors. I'm not saying that it isn't a decent story, but Orwell should have stuck to writing political...
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    Re: Idealism and reality

    'Gravity's Rainbow' by Thomas Pynchon is probably the most nihilistic novel ever written . . . it will haunt your waking and sleeping mind :D . It is a fictionalized World War Two story about a...
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    Re: George Bernard Shaw

    I wrote one of my ap english essay on a short peice of prose by Shaw on the death (and, subsequently, the hilariously detailed cremation) of his mother. Too bad I live in Michigan, I would like to...
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    Poll: Relax . . . if you would have glanced at the...

    Relax . . . if you would have glanced at the banner on my post you would have noticed that my post came less than two minutes after yours. You were probably finishing yours as I began mine. Anyway,...
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    Rejoyce!

    'Finnegans Wake' is an extreeeeemmmmmmeeeeely important book, for what novel can make you laugh out loud on nearly every page? And yet, the last page is perhaps the most eloquent peice of prosody in...
  21. Thread: help !! Ulysses

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    Re: help !! Ulysses

    [Here is a copied portion of an e-mail I had sent to a friend on how to make sense of 'Ulysses' by studying the third episode: 'Proetus']

    PROTEUS

    I think you told me that you had read the first...
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    Said (Sigh-eed) and Spanos are both...

    Said (Sigh-eed) and Spanos are both post-Modernists. 'America's Shadow: Anatomy of Empire' was released in 2000 and 'Orientalism' isn't that much older. I once saw Spanos give a lecture when I was...
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    Poll: The three Bards

    Joyce IS the#1 writer of the twentieth century (according to the Modern Library -- the world authority on literature), which is more than any of these other authors recieved. Homer is the only...
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    apstudent, the fear of the unkown and the fear of...

    apstudent, the fear of the unkown and the fear of Africans (blacks) are reciprocal ephemisms that stem from the same Western (white) belief that in order to comprehed truth we must be able to "seize"...
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    Santa's purple christmas trees

    F.Y.I., apstudent, the United States isn't the benevolent democracy that someone who is unaware of the Iran/Contra affair, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, and the countless scandals in the LAPD,...
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