Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Watcha reading recently?
You read any Halldór Laxness? I finished Wayward Heroes a while ago, and now reading The Great Weaver From Kashmir. Loved them both. The latter, I think you might enjoy its musings quite a bit.

Also read Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Time For Everything. It's a rather fascinating reimagining of the nature of angels and their interactions with the human residents of this planet throughout history; there's something so primordial and elemental about his language, the landscapes he portrays, the mythologies he elaborates, the fall and "decline" of the angels he narrates. The Rilke in my signature, from Duino Elegies, it suits the novel. Highly recommend it.

And Mathias Énard's novel Compass. The curious insomniac meditations of an ailing Viennese musicologist on the Orient. To quote: "Orientalism as lament, as a forever disappointing exploration"... or... "Sometimes I feel as if night has fallen, that Western darkness has invaded the Orient of enlightenment."

How about you?
 

Dostoevsky

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May 27, 2007
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You read any Halldór Laxness? I finished Wayward Heroes a while ago, and now reading The Great Weaver From Kashmir. Loved them both. The latter, I think you might enjoy its musings quite a bit.

Also read Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Time For Everything. It's a rather fascinating reimagining of the nature of angels and their interactions with the human residents of this planet throughout history; there's something so primordial and elemental about his language, the landscapes he portrays, the mythologies he elaborates, the fall and "decline" of the angels he narrates. The Rilke in my signature, from Duino Elegies, it suits the novel. Highly recommend it.

And Mathias Énard's novel Compass. The curious insomniac meditations of an ailing Viennese musicologist on the Orient. To quote: "Orientalism as lament, as a forever disappointing exploration"... or... "Sometimes I feel as if night has fallen, that Western darkness has invaded the Orient of enlightenment."

How about you?
Is it me or scandinavianauthors are popping up at every corner nowadays? Not my thing, nor I even read it so far, but I hear people want over Fredrik Backman and his book. But quite often I see scandinavian names pop up unlike before.

Hmm, I haven't read those but I gotta say Ove's A time for Everything looks rather interesting. So I'll note that. Gotta check if it's translated here.

Rilke is amazing. I love him.

I finished reading Quo Vadis yesterday. Now I took Mesa Selimovic's Tisine (Silence). Before that one I read Pekic and that guy is a fucking hidden gem lemme tell ya. He's incredible and one of the rare authors that shines as much as Fyodor when he's writing about schizophrenia and a lost/destroyed soul. Read some Gogol too. I also decided to dedicate this year to Serbian authors as we have way too much quality that people are not aware of. So I'm planning to read quite a lot of books this year.
 

Dostoevsky

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:agree: don't read the translated version, get the original one
And wipe my ass with it? Can't understand shit.

Translating any work is actually a crime IMO. Original one is always by far the best thing ever. When it comes to poems the crime goes x100. No wonder people used to learn other languges in the past in order to understand poems etc. Goethe also knew Serbian and was impressed by many of our poems and he also translated Hasanaginica.
 

IliveForJuve

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Jan 17, 2011
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Speaking of languages, how is it that you all manage to learn and speak other languages fluently? Just memorization and practice?

I'm sure being on a continent of so many others helps.
Will, practice and immersion. At one point you have to start reading books, listening to music, watching shows, etc in the language you're learning.

Taking lessons simply isn't enough.
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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Ha i was supposed to be in London today, you staying a while?
Uh! Oh man, that would have been epic!

Alas, it’s been a whirlwind 24 hour trip and I’m already in Heathrow getting ready to fly back to Lisbon. Definitely need to make good on that soon!

Practice and immersion help a lot.
And foreign chicas.
 

IliveForJuve

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Jan 17, 2011
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"Real woman" is really stupid, in addition to the aesthetic appearance, it's noxious to health because it advocates obesity.

And I'm sorry, I have no idea what the guy in the video says, I could only look at his arms.



I was with a guy who had an incredible ass, and he refused to let me eat his ass. That broke my heart :sad:.
Let that girl do it to you.



But suck it til the end, don't just stop sucking and that he simply finish in the mouth.
You do know how to give BJs :agree:

Maybe it's time to visit Argentina.
 

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