Questions Game

I'll let the egregious Spendius do that.

What sort of humour makes you laugh?

All sorts of things, but for some reason I love puns and play on words types of jokes?

That's such a good question, I'll ask you the same!

The same, I love clever humour - plays on words and slightly offcentre takes on things, pointing out how (say) a politician's words are absurd... NOT clowns, slapstick, rude humour (unless it's also clever)


Where would you like to dine today out of all the world's restaurants?

How can anybody "like" dining in restaurants.Necessity might drive one to engage in the activity but liking it is ridiculous.


What is there to like about dining in restaurants?

A lot of things ranging from tasting to socializing...
But I'll not try to convince someone to indulge in such activities.

Is pleasurable opposed to well thought-out?

It is most certainly well thought out by the owners of the restaurants.The trouble they take to ensure that not one little bit of the punter's ego is left untickled is amazing.


What does the pleasure consist of?

As far as I know, as any other human activity, pleasure is an electrical current going in the right sense throught dendrits and synapses in order to flatter your hypothalamus...

Do you think pleasure is a metaphysical concept?

No.That is why,like Francois Truffaut,I find restaurants devoid of pleasure.

There is a line in Madame Bovary about Rodolphe-
"For his pleasures had so trampled over his heart,like schoolboys in a playground,that no green thing grew there,and whatever passed that way,being more frivolous than children,left not so much as its name carved on the wall."

What do you think of that gem from the pen of a maestro?

It's certainly a worthy metaphor, for a not so easy feeling to describe...

If I'm to make a confidence, I'm not, by far, concerned. Contrary to Rodolphe, I think my heart's soil has been enriched by the manure of life pleasures. They were not plenty nor scarce...

Dont you like taking phrases out the context, like this :

Emma sensed something powerful passing over her, freeing her from all her pains, from all perception and feeling …?

Francis:-

I made an answer but something odd took place and I think I have lost it.I will try again.

He's probably drunk again Francis, or the senility is accelerating.

I never despise human beings of any kind, be them drunkards or seniles, all are my friends.

Yes, I know, I should not...

I know, we should take pity on the afflicted, I wonder if he has recalled, whatever it was he might not have even done? It is indeed a sad state to be in. If I knew his abode or the old folks home, I would send him a 'get well soon card'

It is a fairly easy feeling to describe.Many writers have done so.

Some English intellectuals have been known to hide themselves away in order to eat such was their disgust at the process of ingressing,masticating and swallowing food.And that is being polite.

Not a few have found themselves unable to watch when Mr Bernard Shaw's wife was at her plate in view of her relish being inordinately excessive.

And James Joyce opens Ulysses with a nice line concerning the "inner organs of beasts and fowl".

What do you think Flaubert thought was the stimulus of the "something powerful" which he had pass over his heroine?

I must leave now but I'll be back on this question.

Can you wait?

Francis:-

It seems I have little choice.

If we stay in the context of the era, one can think, from moral taboos sublimation is one of the ways of escape...

Or, giving up to God, hence to death is a way to deliver from the taboos constraining.

What's your opinion on this subject?

If I knew which subject you were asking about, I might have a slight chance of answering that, Francis. Can you phrase it more comprehensively, please?

Francis-

I have now read the context of your quote.It is one fabulous paragraph without any possibility of doubt.
How anybody can think they can write without studying Flaubert mystifies me.

"This glorious vision remained in her memory as the most beautiful dream that could be dreamed."

And "Madame Bovary c'est moi."Eh?

The dining out aspect Spendius, I knew a lady who would never eat in a restaurant, she considered the kitchen staff from the head chef down, were bound to do disgusting things with the food.

Are you of a similar frame of mind old boy?