I'm a librarian, motherfucker, you couldn't shock me if you tried.

[izlude_tingel]

Today has been pretty pleasant. Woke up after something like 7-8 hours of sleep, got ready and then still had over an hour before I had to catch the bus. So I watched the Christmas special of Dr. Who. I think I watched the first season in about a week. Now I'm on the 10th Doctor, David Tennant. I really liked the 9th, but #10 seems like he'll

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[dragonpaws]

Dude, I totally wrote that The Fountainhead essay back in the day, and I won $25!

I felt it was completely in the spirit of things to write a deliberately bullshit, lying essay about how wonderful Objectivism was so they would send me money. It still fills me with glee (and they still email me about their youth rallies).

Also, I hate the Aeneid. I don't know how the man shits with both his head AND that big stick stuck up his ass like that.

Faulkner is fucking amazing. I read Absalom, Absalom! in college, and it was like... dude, you can DO that? Seriously? He is worth tackling. But then, you're the lazy philistine who didn't read Heart of Darkness, so I dunno. :P

And you should read The Time Traveller's Wife.

/DP, on caffeine

[dragonpaws]

Oh, and by "the man" I mean Aeneas, not Virgil/Vergil. I loves me the big V., mostly because I've decided that the Aeneid is actually subtle social satire against Augustus.

[izlude_tingel]

That's actually pretty awesome about the Fountainhead essay. I kept getting so angry with her that I almost wrote the essay anyway. I was going to quote Marx a lot and talk about how I liked classic architecture.

For the record, no one in my graduating class read Heart of Darkness. We ran out of time, and Beaudoin told us that we could read it if we wanted to, and then pointed at a stack of books. It was April of senior year, and if I was going to read something for fun I wanted it to be fun. I plan to fix this hole in my education eventually.

I tried reading Faulkner in 10th grade or something and I didn't like it. But my tastes have changed a bit since then, and I might give him another go.

It's only been three or four years, but what I remember of the Aeneid gets fuzzy beyond the first bit we had to recite and that Mr. Souther named his cat Dido.

Will do on the Time Traveler's Wife.

[lover_of_anime]

I need to start reading Sophie's World again. I kind of forgot about it. I love philosophy so I was loving the book. Then just kind of stopped, and now it's been hard to get back into it I guess lol.

[lover_of_anime]

Also, LOL at the thing from library_mofo. hahahah.

[injewic]

hey buddy! I have jonathan strange and mr. norrell. it's pretty interesting and if you want to pick it up john has it somewhere in some box at his place. I'm currently reading 20 thousand leagues under the sea which is really neat so far.
miss you!

[izlude_tingel]

Miss you, too.

I read 20,000 leagues a long time ago, but I really liked it.

You should blog more. If at all possible, you should also go to Cardiff and kidnap David Tennant and bring him back in your luggage for me.