jayseven
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HAPPINESS CAPS GO! Yeah. Essay handed eeeeen. I was all "zomg it's 3pm I really need to leave and print this shit off- pee first, yayay-- WATT! SOMEONE IS HAVING A SHOWER?! DIsASTRUS!" soo.. I runrunrun (read: Speed walk) to uni, and everything bizarrely goes supremely smoothly. Good good. So yeah - read an entire book last night and now I totally understand everything about it. Only... I wrote my intro before i read the book (1,000 words total) and... it was all waay off the mark. So I had to edit it down to about 600 words at 8am straight after reading for hours and hours. Then write another 3kish werds. Feck. Crashed for AN HOUR. So now I'm going to have a spliff, watch lost and In Treatment and The Unusuals and then sleepppzzzzzzzzz And now the soles of my feet are reaaally itchy. I genuinely think I'm allergic to my own sweat.
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lol, read and did an essay on all of those :P The Picture of Dorien Gray can be read in a couple of hours, and is well worth reading several times. I'm sure you'll learn/read about there being two 'versions' - the latter one is miiles better and, er, probably the one you get by default when you buy it anyway. Wilde, as always, is TEH WIT MEISTROOPOO. Without the poo. Dr. Faustus I adore - got me a first on an essay comparing that to Everyman, which you should read. It's available online here, and I think you said you didn't like Waiting for Godot, but read this and Faustus first, then perhaps Rosencrantz and Guildenthorn are dead (i hope that spelling is right) and you'll hopefully love 'em all. Frankenstein is lovely nice MONSTAR GOFFIK shizzle. I had to force myself to read it, though. Lend me both! Yayaya!
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Lol. Brain. JUST WHAT I DON'T HAVE RIGHT NOW. How about AS = an elderly, german, black, black man.
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Moogle; is the other one "Brain Ferry"? I thought that ages ago but couldn't believe it...
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My cyberpunk knowledge is only limited to Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash (and as for steampunk? I could never finish Diamond Age, but I've always been meaning to check out William Gibson. For some reason, I can picture it being apt to dig his way after some more Phillip K. Dick. Sorry I can't help you out, but from what one of my friends said, he found the other two enjoyable, the third mostly, but didn't think the middle one aged well? Ho hum. I just started/finished Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee. A tale of a south african university cassanova, whose affair with a student leads him to try life out in the country at his daughter's. A predictable series of events and not-so-subtle comparisons between dogs and the proles of, suggestively, pre-aparthaid days, then more-so-subtly, many allusions of the loss of ownership, of control; of retrospect and remorse - especially after finishing the book you realise there's a lot of loss. Anyway - good, succinct read, if not perhaps a little depressing, in that sentimental, nostalgic sort of way. EDIT: Oh, I read Life of Pi just before I came to uni. I thought it was going to be along the lines of Ishmael or The Alchemist, or even Empire of The Ants, so maybe I was a little dissapointed by the light-weight pseudo-philosophy it lurks about in. Well, I remember feeling that after I read it, but I couldn't say I truly remember the book much. I'm sure the indian boy has ice cream at some point...
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No :P I watched that years ago, and it's probably my favourite of all his films (that I've seen, so far). I have it on DVD but I can't remember who I lent it to, which is a shame as it's the perfect film to force other people to watch, then watch them get blown away by a "cowboy movie".
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Um, citation plox? I'm pretty sure the young and the elderly are the groups targeted for vaccines every winter as they are those most at risk... EDIT: In reference to the spanish flu; "Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. This is unusual since influenza is normally most deadly to the very young (under age 2) and the very old (over age 70)." (wiki)
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3,000 in total. primarily I'm focusing on the cultural identity aspect of postcolonialism (in regards to the therapeutic nature of unearthing the colonial repressed 'memories') in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, but that'll encounter subjectivity, memory, history, fantasy, landscape, childhood, sexuality, in whimsical, glancing or paddling amounts, waxing each topic with the problem of authoritarial representation. Then I ought compare all that to the postmodern's own self-identity issues in regards to modernism/futurism in the novel Waterland by Graham Swift, and argue that in both theories, the prefix of 'post' infers cultural contest and resistance through a sort of symbiotic relationship of almost oedipal grandeur with the previous period/ism. Or that's the plan! Realistically, who knows.
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Sex in love comes in a spectrum, from the rough and kinky of fetishdom to the sweet and passionate of romance. I guess you could argue that the romantic end has less to do with 'fun' and more to do with... I dunno... communion?
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OK, soo... 1:26 am, 717(ish) words written; intro DONE! Now to spend, what, 6/7 hours going insane reading a book. Yay!
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Cheers, Mundi So a '6', being the top end of the scale, does not automatically mean "we're all gonna die, quick, the zombies are coming. Break that shop window and steal the beans!" Tsk at the world :P EDIT: Lol sheikah
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You were leaning on it a little - but not much! - and it just went. I still think it was already broken. Work's due in by 4pm tomorroooo!
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Let's just let wikipedia resolve everything :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece
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Flinky - I never asked - did your housemate ever notice the broken statue thing? I must say you kept your cool through all that. Essay's going alright! Got my head around postcolonial/post-colonial/postcoloniality/postcolonialism, adjusting my set to subaltern cultures and steering my boots towards the therapeutic notion of re-membering (as opposed to dismembering O_o) Just got to, uh, read a 225-page book after the introduction here is done, then crack on. I predict stress levels to begin around 2am and peak increasingly every two hours after that. Am buzzing from energy drinks already, too. Must resist temptation to BUY MOAR!
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I'm finding it hard to bite my tongue here. It wasn't just a general fuck-about in ancient greece. They still understood the difference between man-love and woman-love -- they understood the concepts of sticking a penis in another man's bum and sticking it in a vagina and they understood the conceptual differences and implications of both acts. I mostly have an issue with the word 'concept' here :P general 'labelling' would be better, as Daft suggested.
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So if all that's needed is a p2p kill to unlock level 5, then what do you need for level 6?
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Guessing the smoking garden is a roof garden of sorts. That's twice I've said 'roof garden' today...
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What is this 'zanu' you speak of?
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Yeah, Burial is more ambient RnB than the hard, grinding, club dubstep that I'm after. Just sounds like Artful Dodger in a deckchair on a roof garden, in sunglasses with its feet up and a Pimms at hand.
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So if it is ultimately the woman's choice because it is her body that changes for 9 months, then surely contraception should ultimately be her responsibility too? :P
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MCJ Metroid? :P
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Oh, no, quite easily it could be said that everything I do like is clogging up this thread :P Ok, maybe it can't be said that easily. But I do think this thread does suffer from a lack of diversity to an extent, and I do think that many posts are overlooked. Every 5 pages or so the only heated debate recurs; subjectivity vs. objectivity. Well anyway; I like dub-step, can anyone recommend me some artists to listen to?
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lol.
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Nope. I've said it before - I don't really have much interest in most posts -- that's nothing against the users, the music or the posts, as I've tried listening to the suggestions that are made the majority of teh time and I decided long ago that it wasn't for me -- and the rare posts, maybe one a page, that offer a suggestion I'm more inclined to listen to are often lost because of the fast pace of this thread. It's not uncommon for music to be spread over more than one thread on a forum, but you can't just have "pop" and "rock" because neither title is fair...
