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Fell asleep on the bus yesterday while reading Borges. It was the translator's foreword that got me but mostly just being tired.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Fell asleep on the bus yesterday while reading Borges. It was the translator's foreword that got me but mostly just being tired. How many winding roads did the bus take?
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I guess this is a good opportunity to tell my favorite Borges tale. Last year I met an Englishman whose diplomat grandfather was a good friend of Borges’. We met at a business dinner and he was about to tell the story of how his grandfather built a labyrinth for Borges. I was super stoked to hear the story and already internally planning to extensively question him about any information about Borges that might have been passed down to him. Alas, I’d already had a couple of glasses of wine and my brain decided to blurt out “Well, isn’t that a-MAZE-ing!” in a very sarcastic voice. The man just changed subject to business and Borges was never mentioned again.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I guess this is a good opportunity to tell my favorite Borges tale. Last year I met an Englishman whose diplomat grandfather was a good friend of Borges’. We met at a business dinner and he was about to tell the story of how his grandfather built a labyrinth for Borges. I was super stoked to hear the story and already internally planning to extensively question him about any information about Borges that might have been passed down to him. Alas, I’d already had a couple of glasses of wine and my brain decided to blurt out “Well, isn’t that a-MAZE-ing!” in a very sarcastic voice. The man just changed subject to business and Borges was never mentioned again. I think Borges would have liked that story. I did, anyway Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Dec 13, 2019 20:39
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Krankenstyle posted:How many winding roads did the bus take? None, but all the forking paths.
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I tried reading some of Stevenson's poems in bed last night (Underwoods) and struggled quite a bit. Now I know I'm dumb as hell but just to check I read some other Anglophone poetry from the same time period (thanks, Albatross Book of Living Verse I bought from the book fair twenty years ago) and most of it parsed fine to me without getting stuck. What the heck is up with that?
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Dec 16, 2019 05:34
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does anyone have the botl west side story quote on hand
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quote:only on somethingawful can one of the most infamous posters be a disgruntled finnish librarian with a coterie of middle-aged english and linguistics professors, all of whom menacingly invade comic book and fantasy threads snapping their fingers like bearded extras from the west side story
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Dec 17, 2019 19:58
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Cashier at the liquor store last night excitedly told me to read A Confederacy of Dunces (of which she mentioned lending multiple copies to friends); when I said that I already had, she excitedly told me to read Worm and then Ward. She gave me a very strong handshake before I left. Would like some advice on asking her out.
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Dec 17, 2019 20:24
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Cashier at the liquor store last night excitedly told me to read A Confederacy of Dunces (of which she mentioned lending multiple copies to friends); when I said that I already had, she excitedly told me to read Worm and then Ward. She gave me a very strong handshake before I left. Would like some advice on asking her out. Print out a makeshift Christmas card from a picture of Ignatius Reilly with some lame rear end Confederacy of Dunces joke and your phone number. There's no real polite/not-weird way to ask someone out while they're at their customer service job, but she sounds weird enough where something like that would work?
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(I am not actually interested in asking her out.)
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Sham bam bamina! posted:(I am not actually interested in asking her out.) nope, you can't un-light this particular goonsignal, you must accept the consequences
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New Challenge Thread: successfully ask out liquor person or eat a whole hotdog cart’s supplies within 6 hours.
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Franchescanado posted:New Challenge Thread: successfully ask out liquor person or eat a whole hotdog cart’s supplies within 6 hours. But you must ask her out using only quotations from Gravity's Rainbow
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MockingQuantum posted:But you must ask her out using only quotations from Gravity's Rainbow There is no graceful way out of this now. Darlene has brought a couple-three more candy jars down off of the shelf, and now he goes plunging, like a journey to the center of some small, hostile planet, into an enormous bonbon chomp through the mantle of chocolate to a strongly eucalyptus-flavored fondant, finally into a core of some very tough grape gum arabic. He fingernails a piece of this out from between his teeth and stares at it for a while. It is purple in color. ps be mine
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lmaoSharpest Crayon posted:the beautiful Finnish language has a word for the kind of person who needs to have the tiniest, most insignificant detail perfect and will halt a month's production from going forward because of said detail.
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Also if something is not pertinent to the matter at hand, it "has no sexual signifigance". (Nowhere near as common in use as "comma-fucker" but always nice to hear in a serious work-meeting.)
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Bilirubin posted:There is no graceful way out of this now. Darlene has brought a couple-three more candy jars down off of the shelf, and now he goes plunging, like a journey to the center of some small, hostile planet, into an enormous bonbon chomp through the mantle of chocolate to a strongly eucalyptus-flavored fondant, finally into a core of some very tough grape gum arabic. He fingernails a piece of this out from between his teeth and stares at it for a while. It is purple in color.
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https://twitter.com/TheLincoln/status/1208043191875915777
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Much like a whole lot of things from the past decade, this makes me feel both deeply disappointed and completely unsurprised
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I noticed that my local library has a extremely valuable book ($800-$1000 on Amazon) in general circulation. Should I tell them, and if so, how? It's an annotated edition of a classic work by a very well known 20th century author, but there has only been one edition and apparently not many were printed. I enjoyed it and want others to enjoy it, but can't stand the thought of some thief doing a quick Amazon search and taking the money, or having someone negligently damage it.
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Konstantin posted:I noticed that my local library has a extremely valuable book ($800-$1000 on Amazon) in general circulation. Should I tell them, and if so, how? It's an annotated edition of a classic work by a very well known 20th century author, but there has only been one edition and apparently not many were printed. I enjoyed it and want others to enjoy it, but can't stand the thought of some thief doing a quick Amazon search and taking the money, or having someone negligently damage it. They would probably appreciate a heads up so they can put it in a non-circulating reference area and replace it with a more common edition for the general stacks. I would mention it to someone at the reference desk and they can direct your inquiry from there. Worst that can happen is they say "thanks but we don't care".
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Too bad a calendar wasn't on this list.
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Ornamented Death posted:Too bad a calendar wasn't on this list.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It was really funny when the Hunger Games movies came out and nobody was allowed to buy the books because they were released in the previous decade and ineligible for purchase. I'll take this L. I misinterpreted the point of the list and now look like an idiot  .
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good job lincoln michael youll be the twitter superstar of 2014
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Dec 21, 2019 04:31
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I'm thinking of getting into Cormac McCarthy. I was told The Crossing is good but it's the second part of a trilogy. Does one need to have read All the Pretty Horses first?
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twitter and bisted posted:I'm thinking of getting into Cormac McCarthy. I was told The Crossing is good but it's the second part of a trilogy. Does one need to have read All the Pretty Horses first? You should probably just read it too because it is supposed to be good
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twitter and bisted posted:I'm thinking of getting into Cormac McCarthy. I was told The Crossing is good but it's the second part of a trilogy. Does one need to have read All the Pretty Horses first?
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Ok, thanks.Bilirubin posted:You should probably just read it too because it is supposed to be good twitter and bisted fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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you know, once upon a time i was content to look critically at my own writing and occasionally think "oh that was inspired by asoiaf". now i think of these inclusions as places where grrm has infested my thoughts and must be scrubbed out, as you would a creeping wet rot of the soul
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Goondolences.
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I shoulda read Borges when I were still a lad and remembered my Russell  (Or! I should re-read Russell!)
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hahaha https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...91a9_story.html
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Dec 24, 2019 02:32
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about as accurate as goodreads' algorithms
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Jemisin, the Hugo Award-winning fantasy author, blends speculative and literary fiction in this, the first of a new series. Five New Yorkers must come together to save their city, which has literally come to life, in a story that’ll give you “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” vibes.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Jemisin, the Hugo Award-winning fantasy author, blends speculative and literary fiction in this, the first of a new series. Five New Yorkers must come together to save their city, which has literally come to life, in a story that’ll give you “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” vibes. Its an expansion of that short story from When is Black Future Month isn't it? Too bad, it was a nice self contained story as is
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Just finished The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik. Now I'm moving on to Small Fires: Letters from the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine, 1987-1990. Maybe because I subconsciously want to feel more and more bummed out, but also because the notion of a book consisting solely of letters to the editor from everyday people at the tail end of the USSR's existence really appeals to me.
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