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ah yes! a device!
but then what does she do? does Dolf get to spend much more time in the 13th century? Is that the substance, the main plot arc of the thing or is it
in getting him back? . . .
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Great! Discussing Smurfs! |
here's a lost episode
lol
MY NEW FAVORITE TOY 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by punknaynowned
ah yes! a device!
but then what does she do? does Dolf get to spend much more time in the 13th century? Is that the substance, the main plot arc of the thing or is it
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Yeah much more... he travels along with the children's crusade and has to save the kids from hunger and disease on a number of occasions, then
overhears what the crusade is really about... But you'd better wait for the film, or read it yourself. It's been translated.
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I'll look for it
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There's English translations of CIJ available in book stores around here, I can get you one...
Am now half-way in Stad in de Storm, it's a very exciting book.
Edit: finished it last night... really good, really good... Now off to Dead Fingers Talk whilst running the virus scanner.
[Edited on 30-9-06 by BBP]
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I'm currently reading Unweaving The Rainbow by Richard Dawkins.
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I've read some chapters from that Poly. I couldn't read it all because it was in the middle of semester and completely unrelated to my work.
Mr. Dawkins featured for about 6 months as my avatar here.
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Here is my self imposed formal study free reading list for my holiday months:
CHOMSKY, Syntactic Structures, H 415 C548S
FOUCAULT, The Order of Things, U 901.9 F762M
NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist, U 235.48 N677A
NIETZSCHE, Portable Nietzsche, U 193 N677A
KAFKA, The Castle, U 830.912 K11.1 A6/S3m
KAFKA, Short Stories, U 830.912 K11.1 A23/P
ROUSSEAU, Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, M 840.5 R864 A6/C.B
DURKHEIM, The Rules of Sociological Method, U 301.018 D963R8
DERRIDA, A Derrida Reader, U 194 D438 A28/K.h
FEYNMAN, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, H 530 F435F
DICKENS, David Copperfield, U 820.8 D548 A6/D.n
FLAUBERT, Sentimental Education, U 840.8 F587 A6/E3B
plus some other stuff not by any particular author.
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That's quite some literary stuff you got there... Kafka is great!
But to be honest I never heard of Chomsky.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by scallopino
CHOMSKY, Syntactic Structures, H 415 C548S
FOUCAULT, The Order of Things, U 901.9 F762M
DURKHEIM, The Rules of Sociological Method, U 301.018 D963R8
DERRIDA, A Derrida Reader, U 194 D438 A28/K.h
FEYNMAN, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, H 530 F435F
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I'd love to spend some quality time with these as well. I can't anytime soon 
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Yeah tell me about it...i have to wait until the end of each year usually.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
That's quite some literary stuff you got there... Kafka is great!
But to be honest I never heard of Chomsky. |
I'm up to page 76 or something of The Castle. Noam Chomsky is an American and kind of has a similar stature to Michel Foucault. He is probably most
famous for his advocacy of a sort of a modern form of anarchism and his criticism of american foreign policy.
There is a youtube video of a debate about human nature between Chomsky and Foucault (Foucault talks to Chomsky in French and Chomsky talks to
Foucault in English..). It was a live to air thing and it might have even been for Dutch tv.
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Sounds interesting...
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so you saw the CIJ movie. yeah books are always better, but did they do a decent job for this one?
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Well there were some unfortunate plot changes... I wasn't too fond of the adding of a love story and the deletion of one main character... But it's
still a very entertaining film. Two hours just flew past.
I ws surprised at one thing. One of my favourite actors, Jan Decleir, has a part in it; and I didn't recognize him.
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Just started on reading The Devils by Dostoevski.
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Just started on reading The Devils by Dostoevski. |
that's one I never got to. Have I ever prattled on about how I love Dostoevsky? I think I did . . . could ya keep me updated , but noooooo that
might be too much like school eh?
anyway, I love it. That's supposed to show some of what he learned about as a gambler and 'arnachist' before his jail time, after which he started
writing his works that have been most remembered.
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Ah great! I especially enjoyed reading about his experiences in Siberian punishment camp... dirty clothes, one bath per year... Not sure about the
English title.
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I'm reading the latest Thomas Pynchon novel: Against The Day.
here's the dustjacket synopsis that Pynchon wrote (oh, you can bet on it).
"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after WWI, Against The Day moves from the labor troubles in
Colorado [that's where I am right now] to turn-of-the-last-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia,
Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not
strictly speaking on the map at all.
With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic
fecklessness, and evil intent in high places.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents,
mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances
by Nikolai Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to
pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
Meanwhile Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Charcters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs.
Strange and weird sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurences occur. Maybe
it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be."
I call it fun.
Already, me being in Colorado as noted above, I find the characters paralelling where I'm at in my present day world. Love it when this happens to
me. When you come upon a book of fiction pretty randomly that gives insight or shows analogous perspective to the troubles and concerns of real life,
right now. Makes you feel like you are part of a larger stream of pseudo-consciousness or something.
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