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[Lawnchair Bes]

Bes, please don't try

go yourself

 

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[GordoDeCentral]

go yourself

i see the please didnt quite do the trick, how can i put this mildly: you can barely write a sound sentence in English you re the last person to be criticizing others over grammar.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

i do not think you have been exposed to a representative sample of my writing.

 

[The Curr]

I see the please didn't quite do the trick, how can I put this mildly: you can barely write a sound sentence in English you're the last person to be criticizing others over grammar.

While we're on the topic. Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

While we're on the topic. Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[mikhail]

Okay, that's enough of that. Back on topic folks.

 

[bianconero]

just reread finnegans wake has had a lubriscious influenza on me own good ramblings be gorrah

 

[mikhail]

Ah, Joyce. Someone once pointed out that without British imperialism bringing English to Ireland, the English-speaking world would never have had Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Beckett or Heaney. I think that's as good an argument against British imperialism as I've ever read.

 

[bianconero]

Ah, Joyce. Someone once pointed out that without British imperialism bringing English to Ireland, the English-speaking world would never have had Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Beckett or Heaney. I think that's as good an argument against British imperialism as I've ever read.

Seriously: shame on you.

 

[mikhail]

Seriously: shame on you.

You've never had them inflicted on you like only the Irish school system can. In fairness, I reserve judgement on Beckett and Shaw, even Heaney (though what I've read of his has been dull enough to induce coma). Yeats is a good poet, I guess, though I've never developed a great appreciation for that medium. But Joyce... Joyce I hate with heat of a thousand suns. His Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man might be the most mind-shatteringly boring piece of literature I've ever endured (in English - Peig might actually be worse). I liked studying English. Imagine how my less interested classmates felt about him.

 

[bianconero]

PAYM is a wonderful book, nearly as wonderful ad the Dubliners.
I guess education, with a heavy hand, can kill anything.

Becket, I know someone who knew him, was a great writer for the theatre.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

joyce: sado maso reading

 

[mikhail]

...I guess education, with a heavy hand, can kill anything...

Possibly. I left school with a certain amount of appreciation for Shakespeare though, which suggests the problems lies elsewhere.

 

[bianconero]

joyce: sado maso reading

Don't confuse an artist personal life with their art.

Just dusted of Yeats and am still in awe of how language can be used.

 

[bianconero]

Possibly. I left school with a certain amount of appreciation for Shakespeare though, which suggests the problems lies elsewhere.

Notwithstanding, I am grateful to have read, heard and seen all those writers you mentioned.

 

[Osman]

Reading Clavell, are we? I read King Rat as a kid, consumed by it. Haven't read his other tales.

I havent read King Rat, but Clavell is something else, consumed is a good word, there's been a long long while I have been consumed by a book as I have been by Shogun and Tai Pan. He is quite masterful of asian historical fiction.

 

[bianconero]

A Christmas Carol: Dickens

Absolutly brilliant: I was moved to tears and laughter.

 

[swag]

joyce: sado maso reading

Oh, like who hasn't read Ulysses to children around the tree over the holidays.

 

[Henry]

I havent read King Rat, but Clavell is something else, consumed is a good word, there's been a long long while I have been consumed by a book as I have been by Shogun and Tai Pan. He is quite masterful of asian historical fiction.

I thought Shogun was his most enjoyable novel, but King Rat was in many ways more effective

 

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Terry Pratchett - Kleine freie Männer
English title is The Wee Free Man