@MontereyJack,
Quote:Spendius's Schopenhauer is very little use when your toilet is stopped up and you need a book on plumbing repair quick.
I have never had a stopped up toilet. And a good pal of mine is an ace plumber. In fact it was me who got him into the plumbing game. In a roundabout fashion that only a complete idiot would find interesting to hear tell of. The sort of thing you get in some books of the type everybody says is gibberish. Where they write the story backwards and then number the pages in reverse. The authentic stuff. It had actually happened. With a degree of poetic licence. To cover over or skip round those crucial episodes which show the hero in the sort of light he would rather not be shown in in the author's opinion.
Mr Joyce did not shirk the going to the toilet episode, and it is crucial, and having done so set about handling it as tastefully as he thought fit in view of the temper of the times. And wouldn't it be wonderful if he taken on a crucial unblocking of the toilet episode.
But for Mr Joyce Jack might never have dared to pluck his little jest from his memory bank bearing in mind all the other possibilities from which he had to choose where Schopenhauer would be of little use. Mostly of no use.
He blazed the trail. Got wanking a hearing too. All your crapola and dipshit and bullshit and arse wipe and wanker and the whole gamut of it in daily use is down to four-eyed Jimmy.
Of course Schopenhauer is of significatant use in a number of other situations. Often dangerous ones. He helps a young man to orient himself less hypnotised when confronted by the opposite sex. Not entirely but who can expect that. More pragmatically should we say.
So with the committee being of a faintly feminist tincture Schopenhauer is hardly likely to be on the shelves whether the toilet is blocked or not. And nor is JJ. And the scientists say that the sperm count is reducing. Bit by bit.