there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

fuck me Barclay James Harvest were poor

so...does nostromo by joesph conrad have ANYTHING to do with the Alien movies at all?

There's a pred ship on p. 94 iirc

cd argue that first couple of Alien flicks have themes of colonial politics which is Nostromo's central theme.

cd argue Ridley Scott is a cock, ymmv

i mean obviously Conrad is not as literary as, say, Frank Miller but the lad was a tryer considering he wsn't writing in his first language

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to get yours with a copy of my 33 1/3 book on public enemy:

.. + ...

It's alright Robert, they're not interested in being right..

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also iirc - and i may not be r-ing c - Nostromo features a big corrupt hypercapitalist corporation as in Alien and its sequels. tho obv the novel is critiquing capitalism not just running thru lamoid SF truisms

let's remember that this all started because someone had the gall to refer to a comic book as a "book" for short, not because of any claims of literary merit

they're not interested in being right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

hey i made it pretty clear i'm just chumming the water

Paloma Faith is fucking awful hey?

nv i've never fp'd u yet, so help me

i wuz just bored man there's nuffink for kids to do round here

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also Alf Tupper is awesome

what r we talking abt in this thread, is whiney a literary critic now

whiney will take anything a dog in glasses tells him and try to pass it off as his own opinion

haha bro you think youre so awesome but you didnt even write that book its just a bunch of quotes

i like it when people pretend they're reading shite for light relief too like their brains have been knacked by all the Spinoza they was reading before they picked up Bunty

― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 16, 2012 9:21 AM (31 minutes ago)

same could be said about graphic novel haters too. it's not like they're condemning comix bc they've got spinoza in their back pocket. they're huffing whatever subpar franzen creative writing school crap NYT is shoveling this week.

can't believe nv is polluting this of all threads when ppl want to post wryly poignant anecdotes abt the time someone's grade teacher mistook a dinosaur for a unicorn and said dinosaurs aren't real (cuz they were a xtian fundie and fat and stupid)

subpar franzen is tautological iirc

haven't actually read him (too busy reading comix) but Harbach surely?

dunno dude i only read Spinoza

and The Victor

chabon wouldve been best for yr middlebrow literary stand in cause hes really into comics <<<literary style thinking

yeah, i like chabon tho

even better! continued literary style thinking

if a person does the "comic books aren't books schtick" I'm willing to bet ten dollars that that person's reading list for the last year includes exactly no heavy lifting at all

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arent comic book literally books, they have pages and covers and the word book is even right there in the name

BARUCH! BARUCH!

right, but whiney is the sister in alice in wonderland who condemns anything that has pictures

Which ironically includes Alice in Wonderland.

i don't think that's ironic

this wouldnt have happened if morbs had made the same post w/ books in italics

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hey philosophy dudes btw I've never read Spinoza. Hear him ref'd all the time & iirc Borges is into him. But my grounding in philosophy is pretty sub-entry-level, I have to slllloooowwww dowwwwnnnn when I read that stuff and go over the same grafs over & over to make sure I understood a point. Except! reading Kirkegaard was a blast back when & I know this pisses off hardcore philosophy types but one of the appealing points of critical theory is that you get dudes like De Man or Blanchot whose writing is just enjoyable on its merits. should I get some kind of a Spinoza reader or will I just be wasting my time

yeah, get a spinoza reader. he's killer. borges is pretty sweet too.

hey nakh - what's up?

take it to the spinoza thread smart guy

tragic that all these great minds of ilx need to read about what to think ;_;

huh no spinoza thread. what do you know?

I liked that philosopher who said philosophers were baloney, u know, that guy.

spinoza

yeah Spinoza is cool but the Ethics are kind of robot-logic ice cold, writing wise, & not really enjoyable on lit merits.

Feel like I do enough heavy lifting but can't get behind the no comics movement, if we go back to hating kids' books/ya fiction maybe I can get on board.

it is surprisingly difficult to find a list of all the bootlegs released on Pharting Pharaoh Records

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, July 16, 2012 3:22 PM (11 minutes ago)

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