@firefly,
Quote:Is that the sort of burning issue that keeps you awake at night?
Nothing keeps me awake at night. I don't get up before ten. I'm a bit wary of people who get up early for no reason. I haven't read Austen for many a long year and then Setanta said something which I knew was phoney (name dropping) and it kicked me off to read it all again which I had been intending doing for some time. It's another world once you learn how to read properly which I hadn't learned how to do at the time I read her before. I can explain that but it would take a while and I don't think you would understand anyway. You're not as intelligent as you think you are ff and the first thing you need to do is to make yourself aware of it. The meek will inherit the earth--absolutely. These big-shots have no chance.
Quote:We also live in this century.
Yeah--but beneath those glad-rags beats a female heart which hasn't changed much since the Willendorf Venus. Just a thin veneer which can easily be seen to have been rubbed off in places. What about Homer? Ovid? Herodotus? Rabelais? Shakespeare? Flaubert? Proust? Etc? In fact it was Proust who showed me how to read.
(My username is that of a Flaubert hero---a lot less atavistic that your username).
Quote:Lampyridae is a family of insects in the beetle order Coleoptera. They are winged beetles, and commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs for their conspicuous crepuscular use of bioluminescence to attract mates or prey. Fireflies produce a "cold light", with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies. This chemically produced light from the lower abdomen may be yellow, green, or pale-red, with wavelengths from 510 to 670 nanometers.
Sheesh!!! Hard to please eh? One might need a chisel to get into a gap that narrow.
That's more entertaining that a picture of another plate of pasta. At least I think so. The only use a picture of a plate of bloody pasta has is that it gives others a respectable excuse to post a picture of some other ****. And it doesn't take long to make it ****.
The absence of toilets in supposedly realistic novels has long been a bone of contention. The charge of anal retentivism arises. Hence the toilet scene in Ulysses which Mr Joyce decided not to sanistise so much. The same thing broke through, an expression Lola will understand, with the fart sequence we engaged in a little while ago.
Here is how Jane Austen gets past it and she didn't know the expression "breaking through"--
Quote:On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends,
and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart
could think capable of accommodating so many. Anne had
a moment's astonishment on the subject herself; but it was soon lost
in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all
the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville,
to turn the actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies
of lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors
against the winter storms to be expected. The varieties in
the fitting-up of the rooms, where the common necessaries
provided by the owner, in the common indifferent plight,
were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood,
excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable
from all the distant countries Captain Harville had visited,
were more than amusing to Anne; connected as it all was with his profession,
the fruit of its labours, the effect of its influence on his habits,
the picture of repose and domestic happiness it presented,
made it to her a something more, or less, than gratification.
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"In the common indifferent plight" eh. Check out modern facilities to see how up to date that is. Switch from wood to plastic and "worked-up" to machined and there you are. It's from Persuasion. What about Captain Wentworth eh--what an idiot. All he had to do was forgive Anne and he was in clover.
Quote:No, it's simply the sort of thing you choose to preoccupy yourself with.
What do you choose to preoccupy yourself with then? Food? Make-up?
Quote:The pasta is really quite good, with an excellent sauce. Why do you find it so unappealing?
It is because I don't care for sauce particularly. I like to taste what it is I eat. And pasta without "make-up" is dreadful. I think sauces are for people who are eating when they are not hungry. They provide over-stimulation for one of the carnal appetites and, as an evolutionist, I view the matter with a certain degree of scientific disdain even when I have been tempted to indulge myself. It's an interesting subject is taste stimulation.
The bloke with ten thousand a year for example.
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