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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

August 31st, 2019, 8:47 pm

It was actually a "fake" quote. She replaced "man" with "pig" in "Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."

I remember I loved Joseph Conrad's novels when I was 14.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

August 31st, 2019, 11:07 pm

I don’t know. Why does it affect some people and not others? Start by treating the symptoms. Cold showers, bed rest. Total banning from social media.
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-us-has-been-denying-people-entry-because-of-what-their-friends-write-on-social-media/?fbclid=IwAR2WGxI6zO5c2VkZi4I3k7LTmhZiVqyR7TVI0nEVDqXqMRan-8vhQAGvmHY

Any questions?
Makes sense. At least they don't take away their children, like in Norway.

Oh wait.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

August 31st, 2019, 11:09 pm

Wrong, Polish literature is quite good, of course - much worse than Czech literature. 
What is the Czech literature about except beer and laziness?
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

August 31st, 2019, 11:10 pm

Why do so many books from the last decade take the form of alternating chapters from different points of view?

Alice
Julie
Daniel
Alice
Julie
...

Usually going back and forth through time. Often with large chunks in italic (that would be some as yet unnamed character). And we have to wait until near the end to find out what the key event in the past was that the whole story hinges on.

And because we know the pattern, and we know we have to wait until the end, we are thinking right from the start, “I hope it’s worth it.”

And it so never is.
It's supposed to be a puzzle. Sometimes it works. Have you read Iain Banks?
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 1st, 2019, 12:31 am

Then I’ll read Agatha Christie!

The Wasp Factory, excellent, can’t remember The Crow Road at all.

He had an unconventional plan to save the planet involving buying more cars if I recall correctly.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 1st, 2019, 6:59 am

Wrong, Polish literature is quite good, of course - much worse than Czech literature. 
What is the Czech literature about except beer and laziness?
Try to read, you'll learn something.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 1st, 2019, 7:51 am

Aldous Huxley was a great writer.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 1st, 2019, 12:16 pm

Then I’ll read Agatha Christie!

The Wasp Factory, excellent, can’t remember The Crow Road at all.  

He had an unconventional plan to save the planet involving buying more cars if I recall correctly.
Read "The Use of Weapons". It has an unconventional narrative structure, but very gripping. The whole Culture series is very, very good.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 1st, 2019, 12:16 pm

Wrong, Polish literature is quite good, of course - much worse than Czech literature. 
What is the Czech literature about except beer and laziness?
Try to read, you'll learn something.
Try to read Polish literature, you might also learn something ;-) Are you Czech?
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 2nd, 2019, 8:38 am

You don't like book about countryside, or about peasants?

What about Remarque, then?
Only AQOTWF. Vaguely remember liking it. But just like everything I've ever read I can't remember the actual book, only at best my emotional response to it. I look at things I've written...can't remember a thing. So often I think, gosh I must (have) be(en) clever. I've always been like this. My brother's the same, awful memory. It's only because we look similar that I know who he is.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 2nd, 2019, 10:59 am

Your grace. I represent the magazine "Tit Bits" by whom I'm commissioned to approach you for the publication rights of your memoirs.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 2nd, 2019, 10:55 pm

Too late, I already sold them to "Bit Tits".
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 3rd, 2019, 12:39 am

Having never heard of this institution, I was intrigued to learn that it was the medium that first published a PG Wodehouse story, as well as its having been referenced in both Ulysses and Animal Farm, popular books around here.
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 3rd, 2019, 10:41 am

Too late, I already sold them to "Bit Tits".
Page 3, what?
 
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Re: Boris Johnson - the last 100 days

September 3rd, 2019, 10:45 am

Having never heard of this institution, I was intrigued to learn that it was the medium that first published a PG Wodehouse story, as well as its having been referenced in both Ulysses and Animal Farm, popular books around here.
Mr. Leopold Bloom never left home without an old copy of Tidbits. Especially when reading Matcham's Masterstroke, a real Throwaway.