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Post by moseymoo on Apr 23, 2014 6:09:28 GMT -5
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 23, 2014 3:55:10 GMT -5
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 22, 2014 18:27:31 GMT -5
I'm kind of neurotic when it comes to books -- if they're second hand and look loved or whatever then that's fine, but if I buy a new book I get really stressy about keeping the spine uncreased and the pages clean etc, I just need my books to be pristine... I am also reknowned for going absolutely mental if I see see someone abusing a book -- our English teacher throws books across the class room to students and it drives me crazy...
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 22, 2014 18:16:51 GMT -5
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy! But also The Elegance of the Hedgehog hy Muriel Barbery and Clockwork Orange by Antony Burgess.... woah those are three very different books...
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 22, 2014 18:02:48 GMT -5
I guess there are some people who also adore crossword puzzles. see that's the sort of maths I like ~ the wonderfully cryptic stuff that invariably involves trig or something to make something insanely complicated into something beautifully simple but then equally I like the practicality of differentiation or integration -- it just makes me smile that the universe worked out in such a way that it can essentially be simplified to a set of equations
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 22, 2014 17:25:01 GMT -5
Same!! Is it really sad that my earlier memories are of my dad teaching me how to play computer games on the PS2 when it first came out...?
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 22, 2014 17:22:17 GMT -5
To be honest I hated Ulysses -- it kind of took the whole *day in the life of...* trope waaaay too far. Yes, parts of it were absolute genius, but you could confidently cut out about half of it without really losing anything. Oooh controversial! Um, that's kind of the point of the stream of consciousness style. If you were that concerned about the main 'plot', you could of course cut out every diversion and ramble there is, but our minds simply don't work like that. Oh sorry that wasn't what I meant: I have absolutely no problems with the stream of consciousness style, what I didn't appreciate so much was Joyce's constant need to imbed utterly superfluous intertextual allusions into Dedalus' narrative -- to me, the need to "be clever" ultimately subverted the integrity of his endeavour: the stream of consciousness device (which is adopted to introduce a new sphere of realism: the subconscious) was undermined by such constant referencing -- nobody thinks in literary allusions like that! I think parts of it were utter genius: the modernist ability to create an ever expanding text through allusion is something I adore; but I do not feel that it is quite as seminal as people make it out to be...
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 22, 2014 13:49:06 GMT -5
Hmm it certainly sounds interesting - and a Handler endorsement is always good I might have to find a copy for myself after I've finished exams
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 17:25:51 GMT -5
Does anyone else really want to hear this read by Cecil Baldwin??
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 15:56:47 GMT -5
Can some creative folk please get a kickstarter thing going for some of this stuff?? I would genuinely pay money
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 15:44:42 GMT -5
To be honest I hated Ulysses -- it kind of took the whole *day in the life of...* trope waaaay too far. Yes, parts of it were absolute genius, but you could confidently cut out about half of it without really losing anything. Oooh controversial!
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 15:28:12 GMT -5
I personally think that, as long as it truly is that person's desire and not something done for convenience, euthanasia is 100% fine. In my mind, bound up in the right to live is the right to die: we should all have control over our own lives, to do with as we wish.
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 15:19:58 GMT -5
So I don't know if anyone else has asked this question, but seeing as it's rather topical what with the release of the XBone and the PS4 last year and all, which camp are you in?? Me? I'm a Sony gal they might have a staggeringly poor grasp of profit margins, but for me they quite simply have the best tech regardless of how shoddy their marketing seems to be. I felt like I was clinging to the helm of a sinking ship with the last generation (I can see why the social gaming aspects of the 360 appealed to the casual market, but I have always been somewhat reclusive about my gaming habits and the PS3 offered the best overall experience for me), but this generation I think they have really grasped what the market wants without abandoning their ideals: a staggeringly powerful console (8 gig of GDDR5 anyone? ) with added social features and a host of awesome exclusives lined up Anyhooo.... Rant over.... What are your thoughts??
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 14:55:40 GMT -5
Ugh trust me I know -- I own my copy of War and Peace but I've had my copy of Anna Karenina out of our school library for 4 years now... I'm hoping the librarian has forgotten about it and blessing the fact that we have no late fees...
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Post by moseymoo on Apr 21, 2014 11:43:30 GMT -5
I abbreviate it to ASOUE online but I don't think I had ever considered how I would say it out loud before... weird... When I was doing academic stuff with it, I referred to it as 'The Series' (like Sherlock's 'The Woman')
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