Girls go to Venus to engage in characterization, as they say.i dont beleive in characterisation its more for girls in my opinion.
which translation? Chapman or Pope?Anyway I've finally started reading The Odyssey.
ive been worried you were having a nervous breakdown. youd come online and just stare in morose silence, no chat. it lasted months. i thought it was terminal decline. glad to see youre brushing the cobwebs off. i was going to saying something, like, are you having a nervous breakdown but thought that might just make it worse.As you get further entrenched into middle age there can be this thing of trying to transcend charisma, the game. you start to fixate on the pragmatic, this kind of wooden cynicism that you perform but you know its a lie deep down
does this mean you agree or you think this is evidence of the brekdown?ive been worried you were having a nervous breakdown. youd come online and just stare in morose silence, no chat. it lasted months. i thought it was terminal decline. glad to see youre brushing the cobwebs off. i was going to saying something, like, are you having a nervous breakdown but thought that might just make it worse.
Translated by Robert Fitzgeraldwhich translation? Chapman or Pope?
Havent read it yet actually, I dont know why. liking it? read High Rise at the end of last year. would you say his writing leaves an impression on ugly human nature without relying too heavily on strong characters, so the flatness or superficiality is actually the point. constant reference to peoples jobs / roles was irritating me but on reflection did that serve the lesson on status etc
I dont know if I like him personally! He's fascinating and frustrating, and sometimes a no joke sometimes bad writer, then pays off with a stunning line that gets a massive grin. a real sickoi don't like ballard personally. it's the same thing every book. halfway through they all start hallucinating, i remember liking concrete Island, though
yeh that ones too trendy, no storyOnly one I didn't like was atrocity exhibition, had absolutely no idea what it was about or supposed to be doing. Maybe I'd like it more if I read it now, dunno.
I dont know if I like him personally! He's fascinating and frustrating, and sometimes a no joke sometimes bad writer, then pays off with a stunning line that gets a massive grin. a real sicko
They are all pretty much exactly the same it's true. Maybe diminishing returns with the later stuff, but high rise crash concrete island drowned world all brilliant.i don't like ballard personally. it's the same thing every book. halfway through they all start hallucinating, i remember liking concrete Island, though