Btw Alfred, you're certainly right to point out that a difficult relationship with language isn't necessarily indicative of terror or torture or tortuousness, etc. Conversely, some writers claim to loathe the ease with which they write. Whether this is made manifest in the prose (or poetry) itself varies from author to author, but I would argue that in Beckett's case it most certainly is (that said, the opposite argument has been made, and I don't think it unpersuasive!).
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
fair enough! That makes sense.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
think yer all wrong and prob wilfully so but cba needling the winkle out of the shell
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Conversely, some writers claim to loathe the ease with which they write
aaaaaah screw these people!
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
black, white, purple
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
cosign
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
most threads here could be titled "aaaaaah screw these people!"
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili),
John Updike is dead!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Who are these writers that curse themselves for writing too easily? Damn their eyes.
“No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel” Clarice Lispector.
Oh yeah, Updike. I imagine Paul Theroux is another.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:25 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah but with updike you could really tell writing came easily
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Trump calls the El Paso gunman a “coward” while speaking to local law enforcement. “He gave up, just gave up."— Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) August 7, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
cannot
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Re:writers and language, it makes me think of Nabokov's commentary on Lolita where he's like, "btw, I could have written this soooo much better in Russian," when most writers in English would kill to be able to write like Nabokov.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 8 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
https://am14.akamaized.net/med/cnt/uploads/2019/08/Twitter-Recoils-at-WH-Photo-Op-of-Trump-Posing-with-El-Paso-Orphan.jpg
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
Wow, this inspired poll idea is just what ILM needed!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 10 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
lol speaking of petri dishes going sour
― cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 10 August 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
jesus u rly are just the american _____ arent u
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
he's coming to your boardwith his righteous swordhe's the american ____________________
― sarahell, Sunday, 11 August 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
It's like ten spoons when all you need is a trife.
― Tim, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
One of the train operators in the UK is called Trenitalia and I'm having a hard time ignoring that name. But people would probably be Offended if I suggested it would be a great name for trans genitalia, wouldn't they?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
It's a state owned Italian train company, of course. We were stupid enough to privatise ours.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
hey at least we are subsidising cheap train tickets for Madeleina Kay's well publicised European adventures, although it would be ideal if she could fly (off a bridge for starters!)
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
UK based private train operators received £3.8bn in gov subsidies last year, wonder how much of that went straight into the pockets of shareholders.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
Finland is not part of Eastern Europe
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
See parenthesis.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
I mean, you're technically correct, but these categories are quite porous in my book. And geographically, it's mostly East of Kaliningrad, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, etc.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Sure, but so is Greece. It's Northern Europe / Scandinavia, and it was a part of Sweden for far longer than it was a part of Russia. I mean, I'd ask my Finnish friend if she feels more connected to Sweden or Russia, but it would feel kinda silly, since we speak Swedish with each other.,,
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
what if you asked her in russian
― rob, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
Before long, it shall again become a part of Sweden, god willing. The days of Finnish sovereignty are numbered, of this I promise you.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
finn de siècle
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
Greece is also arguably part of Eastern Europe. See: Byzantium, Orthodox Christianity, etc.
Finland is undoubtedly not Eastern European if we go by the usual taxonomy. But these things are hardly set in stone (see also: is Mexico part of North or Central America? is the Czech Republic Central or Eastern European? etc.).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
it's all basque to me
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
On a completely unrelated note, the z isn't silent. It would have made for a solid pun otherwise.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
Byantium?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
lol, it didn't cross my mind. That particular post was in reference to something else entirely.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
well youre focusing on what matters anyway
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
What becomes of the broken-tarted
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
Finland is not scandinavian
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
nabisco otm
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
My 11-yo niece told me how bad diet soda is for me, and I replied "OK, coffee and alcohol it is."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
...coffee is quite good for you?
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
idk i don't read the coffee thread
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
Not sure if you've heard but ironic Gervaisian racism went out about 6 years, now it's just racism.
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
*ago
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
If you wanna argue with the people in your head, why not just do it in your head and save yourself the typing?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
what if there was autocorrect for cars
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Can we go back to talking about dick pics?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
i'm an acoleuthic
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
lol
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link