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When they blind the cyclops and the others hear him and come to see what's going they all sound like Arnold the elephant from Charlie Chalk too. He's screaming in pain and they're like "I say, why are you disturbing this beautiful evening with your horrible screaming?".
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
What can I read to become clever like you lot?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Version and Padraig.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I just meant on this place.
Iceberg Slim.
Seems odd to me that there's no mention of him on dissensus. deserves his own thread, he's such a unusual writer. i read a few of his books (pimp and trick baby) as a teenager, cos of the irvine welsh/rebel inc reccomendation, but am now re-reading 'the naked soul' which is a collection of shorter essays/stories. very good. can't think of anything quite like it. very raw and direct style, writing from experience, some interesting things to say on race and sex.
Seems odd to me that there's no mention of him on dissensus. deserves his own thread, he's such a unusual writer. i read a few of his books (pimp and trick baby) as a teenager, cos of the irvine welsh/rebel inc reccomendation, but am now re-reading 'the naked soul' which is a collection of shorter essays/stories. very good. can't think of anything quite like it. very raw and direct style, writing from experience, some interesting things to say on race and sex.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
lolllll
gods know I've written enough words on here over the years but idk how clever they are
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I've never read The Odyssey (I should) but I've found other writings from Antiquity to be sometimes bizarre, if not funny per se
The Republic, for example, is full of weird bullshit
sometimes things like that are down to translation, but sometimes it's just dealing with an extremely different worldview I think
it's an issue any time you're reading primary documents from another era
Anyone read vanity fair? Friend reccd it. I want something with some sweep for next read. Dickens doesnt feel right. Bleak house sounds bitty. I kinda wanna go for war and peace, but i dunno if that might be a bit much. I definitely want something more than 100 years old, i know that.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I've read The Odyssey, Vanity Fair, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones - but not Gargantua and Pantagruel - what's the question?
I do have that latter on my shelf and I browsed the intro or first few pages from the author which stuck with me, pretty ribald stuff with Rabelais (wasn't he a monk?) claiming that some pregnancies can last ten or eleven months, so, if anyone knows any recently widowed women "worth the riding" then send them his way so he nail 'em and then claim any issue were fathered by the husband.
I do have that latter on my shelf and I browsed the intro or first few pages from the author which stuck with me, pretty ribald stuff with Rabelais (wasn't he a monk?) claiming that some pregnancies can last ten or eleven months, so, if anyone knows any recently widowed women "worth the riding" then send them his way so he nail 'em and then claim any issue were fathered by the husband.