Dammit, North Star beat me to the post and ruined the joke.
I don't find Wodehouse uproarious, but he's still good for a grin. Like Saki.
How about Saki?
Dammit, North Star beat me to the post and ruined the joke.
I don't find Wodehouse uproarious, but he's still good for a grin. Like Saki.
How about Saki?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I haven't read Saki, I might have to give him a go, though.
Whose writing do you find uproarious?
Philip Roth
Whom do you consider an unrecognized genius?
Wu Cheng-en, or whoever the actual author of Journey to the West was.Originally Posted by North Star
What is the most significant work of history in the Western tradition?
Also Thomas Pynchon at times.
What philosopher/theorist's work is most compatible to literary criticism?
The Recherche and then Ulysses, heh heh. What a century that was!
Same question.
EDIT: Oh, history. I have no clue. Herodotus for getting their first?
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Hahaha, does anyone here read Hark, a Vagrant!
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=30
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
Yeah maybe, although Thucydides is a better critical thinker (and writer); and Gibbon's prose is next to God. In terms of his influence on secular ideas, I'd probably say Gibbon.
Would you rather read by the fire on a crisp autumn night or read on a beach in summer, stealing glances at the mermaids?
Crisp autumn evening, I get distracted and uncomfortable reading out of doors.
Swimming in the cold ocean or in a heated pool?
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
I prefer reading in a climate controlled room in an easy chair. My eyes are not what they used to be and I'd be pressed trying to read by firelight, and my medications make me very sensitive to heat.
Sorry I was slow. It doesn't really matter as I cannot swim all that well anyhow.
Would you rather read classic or modern fiction?
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
I'll have to read Gibbon someday then.
EDIT: Modern probably.
EDIT: Also heated pool by far.
Would the glances lead to other things? But they're mermaids right? Plus I have a problem with sand. Crisp autumn night, though I don't know what might be crisp about it.
How reliable is your memory? Not how good is it at pulling up random facts at random times, but how well can you manage it, so that you get what you want when you want it?
Hilarious, Clopin. Actually Herodotus is more important than Thucydides (even though Thucydides is a better historian), not exactly because he was first in line, but because he proposed the then radical view (that we and Thucydides have been able to take for granted) that history can be understood as a critical system, in the way that his contemporaries were developing critical systems for understanding things like ethics and aesthetics. Unfortunately his approach was marred by some notorious credulity. He repeats a story he picked up that in India, giant ants mine for gold in giant anthills, for example; and another that Sennacherib had to lift the siege of Jerusalem (famed of the the Bible and Lord Byron) because an army of field mice stole into the Assyrian camp and chewed up their bowstrings. As the comic suggests, Thucydides was more careful about his sources.
Anyway, the bracing sting of salt seawater is eminently preferable to chlorine and little kid urine; I prefer classic to modern fiction (although I enjoy both); and my memory's okay.
Can everything be understood in empirical terms?
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id say no---there are mysteries beyond the human senses.
do you know all the words to meatloaf's paradise by the dashboard light?
Modern Fiction
If someone made you listen to all their horrid music on a road trip because it was their car, would you put in some music you knew they hated on your music list, when it was your turn to drive on your road trip driving turn?
E: do you know all the words to meatloaf's paradise by the dashboard light?
No.
E: If someone made you listen to all their horrid music on a road trip because it was their car, would you put in some music you knew they hated on your music list, when it was your turn to drive on your road trip driving turn?
Some perhaps, but certainly not all of it - I'd try to find a common ground.
Things that can't be demonstrated experimentally are awfully hard to understand empirically.
What is your favourite era of literature? (50-100 years)
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