Borges - Labyrinths (1641)

[Benny Bunter]

The jungle book is brilliant, proper dark children's lit, none of that sanitised Disney shit

 

[version]

Corpsey's learning Japanese.

I can see he's angry at this. Konbanwa, Jack-san!

 

[Corpsey]

I do like a lot of Japanese cinema and art but

The western guy who's really into japan, one of the worst types of people, no?

 

[Benny Bunter]

@luka I reckon you'd like Kipling, reading him really put me in mind of that exoticism (or was it orientalism?) thread we had, and you mentioning that morally dodgy DH Lawrence novel you read, whatever it was.

 

[luka]

i read the jungle books as a kid and just so stories

 

[Corpsey]

HG Wells - The Time Machine is one of the best things I've read, too. Nabokov loved it, presumably so did Borges.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I do like a lot of Japanese cinema and art but

The western guy who's really into japan, one of the worst types of people, no?

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[luka]

i guess youd expect dissensus readers to begin with burruoughs and ballard in their teens then get into kipling and hg wells in their 40s

 

[version]

I do like a lot of Japanese cinema and art but

The western guy who's really into japan, one of the worst types of people, no?

Yeah, that's why it was the perfect language to falsely accuse you of learning.

 

[Corpsey]

I'm sure Ballard must have been into some of that sort of stuff, too, it's this generation of authors who were modernists but had grown up on adventure stories

HE SAYS CONFIDENTLY

 

[Corpsey]

Yeah, that's why it was the perfect language to falsely accuse you of learning.

Trying to meet a submissive bashful giggling wife

 

[Benny Bunter]

TS Eliot wrote a big essay on Kipling and edited a selected works. He was critical of him but had to acknowledge that there's no way around him, he was there and he was a massive genius for all his faults.

 

[jenks]

Wireless, Mrs Bathurst, Mary Postgate are all excellent short stories. He does a good line in the uncanny with a number of his ‘ghost’ stories. A writer who is definitely under appreciated

 

[version]

Boris reciting Kipling during his time as Foreign Secretary was a minor scandal a few years back.

Mr Johnson began quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

The poem by Rudyard Kipling is written through the eyes of a retired British serviceman in Myanmar, also known as Burma, which Britain colonised for more than a century.

In the footage due to be broadcast by Channel 4, British ambassador Andrew Patrick stops Mr Johnson mid-flow, before he gets to the line "Bloomin' idol made o' mud/ Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd" - a reference to Buddha.

Mr Patrick is heard telling Mr Johnson: "You're on mic. Probably not a good idea."

The Foreign Secretary then asks: "What, The Road to Mandalay?"

The ambassador replies: "No. Not appropriate."

 

[Mr. Tea]

Boris reciting Kipling during his time as Foreign Secretary was a minor scandal a few years back.

Mr Johnson began quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

The poem by Rudyard Kipling is written through the eyes of a retired British serviceman in Myanmar, also known as Burma, which Britain colonised for more than a century.

In the footage due to be broadcast by Channel 4, British ambassador Andrew Patrick stops Mr Johnson mid-flow, before he gets to the line "Bloomin' idol made o' mud/ Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd" - a reference to Buddha.

Mr Patrick is heard telling Mr Johnson: "You're on mic. Probably not a good idea."

The Foreign Secretary then asks: "What, The Road to Mandalay?"

The ambassador replies: "No. Not appropriate."

No longer our PM, but our Archbishop of Banterbury for all time.

 

[Corpsey]

“This has happened and will happen again,' said Euphorbus. 'You are not lighting a pyre, you are lighting a labyrinth of flames. If all the fires I have seen were gathered together here, they would not fit on earth and the angels would be blinded. I have said this many times.' Then he cried out, because the flames had reached him.”​

 

[mvuent]

“This has happened and will happen again,' said Euphorbus. 'You are not lighting a pyre, you are lighting a labyrinth of flames. If all the fires I have seen were gathered together here, they would not fit on earth and the angels would be blinded. I have said this many times.' Then he cried out, because the flames had reached him.”​

you reckon you'd do a top 100 list where instead of songs it was porn vids?

 

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This is a good resource for Kipling's poetry which can be quite difficult divorced from its immediate context:

Kipling’s Poems

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Acknowledgements, notes and alternative listings The Absent-minded Beggar The Advertisement After the Fever After the Fever, or Natural … A…

www.kiplingsociety.co.uk

 

[sufi]

This is a good resource for Kipling's poetry which can be quite difficult divorced from its immediate context:

Kipling’s Poems

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Acknowledgements, notes and alternative listings The Absent-minded Beggar The Advertisement After the Fever After the Fever, or Natural … A…

www.kiplingsociety.co.uk

kipling's just so illustrations populated my nightmares

 

[version]

kipling's just so illustrations populated my nightmares

I can barely remember them, but that one of the whale swallowing the man's just given me a jolt of memory. The only story I really remember is my dad reading me the one about the crocodile grabbing the elephant's trunk.