Posted: 31 Jul 2005, 22:45
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Posted: 31 Jul 2005, 22:46
He don't look how I pictured him...
Posted: 31 Jul 2005, 22:52
It isn't important how he looks. Read him.boudicca wrote:He don't look how I pictured him...
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 08:05
Most English people don't get Franz Kafka. They read metamorphosis and focus on the whole bug aspect of the book, when in fact he isn't a bug. English translators render the word Ungeziefer as meaning insect. Ungeziefer literally means "vermin" and is sometimes used to mean "bug". Translators got carried away with the whole bug thing when infact Gregor Samsa is just some gigantic hideous vermin.
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 10:50
Bit like Kilroy...nick the stripper wrote:Translators got carried away with the whole bug thing when infact Gregor Samsa is just some gigantic hideous vermin.
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 11:55
I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.
Pretentious? Moi?
Pretentious? Moi?
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 11:59
heheh. was that that before or after camus' "the stranger"?markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.
Pretentious? Moi?
yeah yeah yeah. we've all been there.
so how far did you get with hesse's "Das Glasperlenspiel"?
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:01
Camus, The Outsider, 15.markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.
Pretentious? Moi?
BEAT THAT SMARTARSE!
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:03
Oh and Octave Mirbeau, "The Torture Garden", when I was 13.
Didn't get half of it... but still, points for pretentiousness, I think!
Didn't get half of it... but still, points for pretentiousness, I think!
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:03
I listened to Pink Floyd's version at about 12, does that count?markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.
Ok, I'll get me "uncultured little swine" coat...
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:05
When I was 17 I was listening to the Dead Can Dance version...
"All my senses rebel"...
Bangin' choon. Oh yes.
"All my senses rebel"...
Bangin' choon. Oh yes.
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:05
In French?boudicca wrote:Camus, The Outsider, 15.markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.
Pretentious? Moi?
BEAT THAT SMARTARSE!
Kidding.
Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:06
Bangin' choon?boudicca wrote:When I was 17 I was listening to the Dead Can Dance version...
"All my senses rebel"...
Bangin' choon. Oh yes.
You still under the influence of swirly avatars?
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:08
I'm 'avin it large to This Mortal Coil as we speak!Motz wrote:Bangin' choon?
You still under the influence of swirly avatars?
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:14
but you own a copy, right?markfiend wrote:Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
if not you can borrow mine. i've never even opened it
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:26
No I don't as it happens.Quiff Boy wrote:but you own a copy, right?markfiend wrote:Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
if not you can borrow mine. i've never even opened it
Go on then, give us a lend of it Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:29
i'll bring it on tuesday. lets see if we can get von to sign itmarkfiend wrote:No I don't as it happens.Quiff Boy wrote:but you own a copy, right?markfiend wrote:Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
if not you can borrow mine. i've never even opened it
its a whopper by the way. weighs a bloody tonne
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 12:35
I'll probably lose it on the way home...
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 18:19
Is it thick enough to give a short arse a lift - I ALWAYS get stood behind Mr Tallbloke and his ridiculously long-legged gf....Quiff Boy wrote:
its a whopper by the way. weighs a bloody tonne
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 18:47
Just drink a bit, then you'll lose the way home before it gets an opportunity to steal the bookmarkfiend wrote:I'll probably lose it on the way home...
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 18:49
LiftAid no longer required *sniff*Debaser wrote:Is it thick enough to give a short arse a lift - I ALWAYS get stood behind Mr Tallbloke and his ridiculously long-legged gf....Quiff Boy wrote:
its a whopper by the way. weighs a bloody tonne
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 19:53
between the ages of 17 and 19 I did nothing but read Michael Moorcock, listen to Hawkwind and get banjo'd on weed. Then I went to art school and Punk Rock happened...
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 20:07
I still have a very soft spot for HawkwindJames Blast wrote:between the ages of 17 and 19 I did nothing but read Michael Moorcock, listen to Hawkwind and get banjo'd on weed. Then I went to art school and Punk Rock happened...
Spent many a bombed night listening to them - they helped a trip no end (read Moorcock too - hippy goth that I was
- and probably still am )Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 20:09
Ah, so that's why you can't stand anything on your feetBlack Alice wrote:- hippy goth that I was
Posted: 01 Aug 2005, 20:26
Obviousman wrote:Ah, so that's why you can't stand anything on your feetBlack Alice wrote:- hippy goth that I was
(and apparently I look like Sandy Shaw (don't ask
) )