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L_D Lurker from California Since: Dec, 2009
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#276: Mar 1st 2010 at 5:31:01 PM

How eerie, our English class just discussed the first book of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal today. Now I'm going to be paranoid in class thinking that half of my classmates are secretly Tropers.

KillerRabbit Just wondering from In the Ning Nang Nong Since: Jan, 2001
Just wondering
#277: Mar 1st 2010 at 5:39:13 PM

That's what they WANT you to think! For their own nefarious ends!

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams for an instant, then it's night once more
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#278: Mar 1st 2010 at 9:27:23 PM

Candide summarized: Leibniz stand-in is stupidly naïve. God pisses on him. Beige Prose.

edited 1st Mar '10 9:27:38 PM by Tzetze

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Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#279: Mar 1st 2010 at 9:29:51 PM

And it's not even a convincing satire really.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#280: Mar 1st 2010 at 9:30:41 PM

I mean, there are better ways to make fun of such ludicrous optimists than a long series of Godpissing.

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Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#281: Mar 1st 2010 at 9:34:27 PM

And ludicrous optimism isn't even what Leibniz promotes.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
#282: Mar 1st 2010 at 11:55:05 PM

And the irony of it all is that Leibniz's philosophy is never actually refuted.

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#283: Mar 2nd 2010 at 12:00:03 PM

Just finished Pale Fire last night. I liked it but I can't help but feel I was supposed to closely monitor every word in order to figure out who the narrator was.

And did anyone else think that John Shade was a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Robert Frost?

edited 2nd Mar '10 12:00:15 PM by Myrmidon

Kill all math nerds
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#284: Mar 2nd 2010 at 7:48:58 PM

I just started reading Starship Troopers. Bit of a Slow Starter.

edited 2nd Mar '10 7:49:12 PM by Wicked223

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#285: Mar 2nd 2010 at 9:37:54 PM

Any one familiar with a short story about a black teen in a farming family, who wants to become a man and so buys a gun?

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#286: Mar 2nd 2010 at 9:42:23 PM

Is that The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright?

no one will notice that I changed this
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#289: Mar 4th 2010 at 7:38:35 PM

So Cap, need any help in finding a translation of the Shahnameh?

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#290: Mar 4th 2010 at 7:39:52 PM

ALSO you know what gets Candide's aesop ("Life's a bitch and then you die") across better? And from the same period, to boot? A Journal of the Plague Year.

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LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#291: Mar 4th 2010 at 7:42:56 PM

I've started reading A Meeting at Corvallis again. Not rereading, but I just picked it up again after several months of not reading it. Why did I stop? I was gonna live blog it back when I first bought it, but...well, liveblogging the third book in a series isn't the easiest thing to do when you haven't liveblogged the other two. Did a couple of chapters then stopped.

Haven't had a whole lot of time to read it yet, so I'm still not that far, but I'm progressing steadily.

edited 4th Mar '10 7:43:10 PM by LuckyRevenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#292: Mar 4th 2010 at 7:44:36 PM

I started reading Thus Dies The Fire. I did not get that far.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#293: Mar 4th 2010 at 7:48:06 PM

It's just Dies the Fire, if you're talking about the first book. And, really? I really liked the first book. The second one wasn't quite as good, but it was alright.

I think part of the reason I liked hte first book was because I read it during the week or so I didn't have any power or anything after Hurricane Ike hit us. So, I could kinda relate, even though what I was experiencing wasn't anywhere near as severe. I mean, gunpowder still worked for me...I assume. I never really tried it.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#294: Mar 7th 2010 at 2:46:33 PM

Just finished Hyperion. Good book. I could have done without Kassad's sex scene with the Shrike, though. That was apparently when a friend of mine stopped reading. I'm going to start The Fall of Hyperion now.

edited 7th Mar '10 2:46:55 PM by Myrmidon

Kill all math nerds
Taelor Don't Forget To Smile from The Paths of Spite Since: Jul, 2009
Don't Forget To Smile
#295: Mar 7th 2010 at 2:57:57 PM

As awesome as Hyperion, I just could not force myself to get into Fall.

The Philosopher-King Paradox
harmattane X_X from Location, location Since: Jan, 2010
X_X
#296: Mar 7th 2010 at 3:38:42 PM

So Cap, need any help in finding a translation of the Shahnameh?
Sure; that would be excellent.

Ce ne pas un post.
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
harmattane X_X from Location, location Since: Jan, 2010
X_X
#298: Mar 7th 2010 at 5:19:22 PM

Thank you. This will do for now.

Just out of curiosity (and the risk of looking very stupid), are you able to read the original?

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Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#299: Mar 7th 2010 at 5:24:47 PM

No, though apparently contemporary New Persian can be used to read it.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001

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