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it's set in washington n i had been to forks before the series started so i read it (which doesn't make it good it was trash) and watched some of the films (couldn't make it to breaking dawn) to see the olympic national rainforest and ocean again
Wrong. It is a great love story. The first movie was fantastic.
started n finished paradise lost. found it very verbose
and the narrator was the dude who voiced all the breton males in oblivion so i was thinking about the chapel attack in anvil
and wondering if mud crabs were in hell
it was a new experience but not my bag
continuing the philosophy break and listening to dark money by jane mayer, all about how robber baron families started creating their own "foundations" for the 'philanthropy' and creating the cato institute and heritage foundation to convince people it's actually a really good idea to let daddy's money having corporation families run everything into the ground (it isn't)
and the narrator was the dude who voiced all the breton males in oblivion so i was thinking about the chapel attack in anvil
and wondering if mud crabs were in hell
it was a new experience but not my bag
continuing the philosophy break and listening to dark money by jane mayer, all about how robber baron families started creating their own "foundations" for the 'philanthropy' and creating the cato institute and heritage foundation to convince people it's actually a really good idea to let daddy's money having corporation families run everything into the ground (it isn't)
always pictured him as more of a trickster or chaos deity like the coyote in native myth. molag bal n mehrunes seem a bit more satany
Although not exactly in book form, I’ve been reading about the Diggers. They were the mid-17th century forerunners to the marxist-communist-socialist morons of later centuries.
The Diggers were basically farmland squatters in England who tried to live an agrarian lifestyle regardless of who owned the land. They were rightly driven from one county to another because no one likes smelly socialists who feel entitled to things that are not theirs.
Unsurprisingly, the filthy hippies of the 60’s and 70’s were big fans of the Diggers.
The Diggers were basically farmland squatters in England who tried to live an agrarian lifestyle regardless of who owned the land. They were rightly driven from one county to another because no one likes smelly socialists who feel entitled to things that are not theirs.
Unsurprisingly, the filthy hippies of the 60’s and 70’s were big fans of the Diggers.
Lovecraft
Dramacrat
Much better with grubby aristocrats that claim land that they themselves do not work and where people had lived for hundreds or thousands of years already. It is not as if the world would be infinitely better if a couple million parasites had their feet burned in fires and then had their heads unceremoniously lopped off to much cheers and amusement.
Have you SEEN the lower classes? Ugh, a more detestable lot one cannot imagine. They are closer to swine in both temperament and appearance than the splendid nobility.
Lovecraft
Dramacrat
You are pretty classless.
I guess even the untouchables in India needed somebody to look down on, and Vishnu provided.
Thank you
finished this. not surprising in any way but after obama was elected the koch brothers n their friends who had caused the recession were deeply invested in not being blamed for it n getting taxed more like they were after the great depression so they started funneling a fuckload more money into trying to wreck every policy obama proposed, created the tea party, spread disinfo about the "death squads" n "wait times" for obamacare, n started targeting specific states they thought they could win over for the midterms. when they did win in those particular states they got gerrymandered, de-unionized n at will'ed, etc
after that, i listened to david enrich's dark towers, about the gradual wall street-izing and full-scale corruption of deutsche bank, with its selling of shit derivatives, money laundering, and dealings with trump (no other banks would loan him a dime)
after that i listened to the king in yellow again.
i have since started the critique of pure reason by kant. even this narrator, much like the last kant narrator, pauses during the sentence. i am more forgiving now this time, as i realize the issue is how kant writes... like a college student with an essay due who tries deliberately to lengthen the sentence to hit the word count. i am not able to focus as well as i would like, accordingly. and it disappoints me greatly. i am considering calling it good, deleting the download, and
I recently finished Big Sur and Junky (which I didn't care for as much as Big Sur) and I'm currently reading Bukowski's Pulp and Blood Meridian (which makes it funny you mention Paradise Lost there's many allusions to it in Blood Meridian)
Big Sur I really enjoyed because it showed a bohemian kind of guy who damn near kickstarted an entire facet of counterculture come face to face with the result of it and realize "holy shit, I fucking hate these guys"
The final sort of delirium tremens he experienced was absolutely beautiful and a harrowing point on religion.
Junky felt more like a confessional and it didn't have anything close to Big Sur's language but I do like it as an account of the beginnings of drug criminalization and the mass hysteria through the United States as it happened.
I also really need to get finished with The Sacred Wood
Big Sur I really enjoyed because it showed a bohemian kind of guy who damn near kickstarted an entire facet of counterculture come face to face with the result of it and realize "holy shit, I fucking hate these guys"
The final sort of delirium tremens he experienced was absolutely beautiful and a harrowing point on religion.
Junky felt more like a confessional and it didn't have anything close to Big Sur's language but I do like it as an account of the beginnings of drug criminalization and the mass hysteria through the United States as it happened.
I also really need to get finished with The Sacred Wood
im kinda stuck on wheel of time atm, im missing the second to last pdf book. gotta say, sanderson is a descent writer, might look into some of his stuff later on.
i opted to wait on hegel n downloaded proudhon's "what is property?" instead
liking it so far but nothing particularly illuminating. past a certain point being a filthy commie listening to filthy commie literature (especially when deleuze was more illuminating as it examined from a different perspective) comes across as preaching to the choir...
i'll still listen to it, but i am ready for hot philosophy audiobook summer to be over. to finish it off tho i downloaded seneca, agrippa, and a nietzsche.
liking it so far but nothing particularly illuminating. past a certain point being a filthy commie listening to filthy commie literature (especially when deleuze was more illuminating as it examined from a different perspective) comes across as preaching to the choir...
i'll still listen to it, but i am ready for hot philosophy audiobook summer to be over. to finish it off tho i downloaded seneca, agrippa, and a nietzsche.
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its criminal how such sex fiends are allowed to run loose like a pack of wild niggers!
finished this. actually enjoyed it more once it got going. the second memoir written to blanqui (not blonky, my chicken is not a centuries old french political theorist) was more enjoyable than the first part. the outlining of rome and accumulation of property, and thus wealth, in the hands of fewer and fewer people until the inevitable collapse happened reminded me of scheidel's great leveler. also slightly amusing because he mentioned seneca as someone who held some measure of power at the time n here i am with a fresh seneca download...
stating that the ppl with power kept voting to keep their interests while i'm sitting in a country with congress n senate full of stockholders in industries they keep voting to subsidize leaves me feeling very... secure. not at all bothered or feeling any sense of impending doom
listening to agrippa next