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[bookofsand]

The manager bawled out one of the servers at work. It wasn't John. I'm down with John. This guy was just another petulant jerkass child of the service industry. "You think I can't fire you because I don't have enough people? I can have another trainee serving tomorrow." The holler of a manager sounds like... opportunity.

No Country For Old Men -

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[gruebleen]

Hey Patrick!
No Country is good. Not as good as Blood Meridian or The Crossing. You must MUST read those.

[cogvitamin]

"Schopenhauer is all but unique in intellectual history for being both an atheist and sympathetic to Christianity."

Can you help me with the use of 'all but unique' here? Blame it on the pressure of other tasks, not laziness.

Does 'all but unique' mean Schopenhauer was 'just nigh of unique' or is this a reference to his borrowing from atheism and Christianity?
[The quote comes from http://www.friesian.com/arthur.htm]

[cogvitamin]

Damn, a misuse of borrowing, but I'm sure you understood me.

All the literary ladies say you are a quite perspicacious lad.

[bookofsand]

If I recall, "he was all but unique" means "someone else did this too, but I don't feel like digging for concrete citations."

[bookofsand]

"One or two other people did this too," that is.

[cogvitamin]

Hola amigo.

I read a few reviews of No Country for Old Men after reading your reviews some time ago. If I remember correctly, some people found the book too simple (i.e. the names of characters having obvious semantic value), others saw various allegories and subtle clues, and extra-narrative references interwoven throughout.

I would like to read that book.

With that said...do you have any updates about that one important matter? Just email me if you do not know what I mean.

Hope you are doing well and staying healthy. Hell, you can cook so you probably eat far better than me these days.