I have to read...

[Rose]

Originally Posted by robbo180265

Rose - GO AND READ!!!

OK OK! I'm on page 80. Have to make it to 256. Must drink more Coke.

[Letum]

^ This


Bugger off Rose and get some reading done. Dont even think of posting here again until after the exam!
You will regret it very much if you don't. Do it now. I messed up the education lark, learn for my mistake!

[robbo180265]

^^^^ What he said!

[fatty]

Yesss Rose, post more, post more. Who needs books?

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Rose

What? Are you talking to me? Or is this going to turn into another Tchocky/Wastegate battle?

....whut?

I've been subscribed to the Journal for the last two years, one of my Econ professors made it mandatory for the class, and I guess it stuck.
Editorially it's risible, but the journalism is top-notch.

That said, I'd prefer to be reading Tristram Shandy or writing something new.

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

....whut?

I've been subscribed to the Journal for the last two years, one of my Econ professors made it mandatory for the class, and I guess it stuck.
Editorially it's risible, but the journalism is top-notch.

That said, I'd prefer to be reading Tristram Shandy or writing something new.

Oh, I dunno, I thought you guys argued alot, and I didn't really get what he meant, but now I do.

*Edit:* Dammit, I just broke the no-posting-'till-after-the-exam rule. That was the LAST one!

[fatty]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

...Tristram Shandy...

[cobalt]

Originally Posted by Rose

He reminds me of Joyce -- SO confusing!

"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I dont know what i am. I dont know if i am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is ot not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not...And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind was, it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room." (P. 80-81)

What. The. Hell.

I remember reading that part. Faulkner tends to be a little confusing at times. I actually have the book in front of me right now, i've kinda been putting it off lately ];


If you like As I lay dying, read the sound and the fury...its most amazing

[Rose]

Well, I only got through about half the book last night (which I still think is an achievement), and it's half an hour 'till my exam. I'm off to school. See you fellows on the other side .

[Rose]

It's over... YAY. I think I did alright. We will see, we will see. Tomorrow is French and then its over for good!

[fatty]

Bon chance

[FIREWALL]

Hi Rose


I hope you did well. I also hope you learned something from this , and not from just the book you almost completely read. Just getting by with an education can haunt you later in life. But I think you already know this and I'd bet better than even money you'll read the next book no matter what ever it is early an come out with flying colors.



Education Rules Learned it almost to late.

[tycho102]

Originally Posted by Rose

Well, I only got through about half the book last night (which I still think is an achievement),

If it's anything like "The Sound and the Fury", then yes. It is definitely an achievement. It's an achievement that you didn't gouge out your eyeballs and bash your skull in with a claw-hammer while trying to decipher the book.

For anyone that hasn't read any Faulkner:
Write out a complete, coherent, grammatically correct paragraph. Delete half the articles (a, the, an), half the prepositions (of, between, for), half the verbs. Then make gerunds out of half of the remaining verbs. Throw in a bunch of random adjectives which, specifically, have ambiguous objects. Now, get completely hammered and type the revised paragraph into a word processor. Just go with all the default spelling corrections.

You have just written a Faulker paragraph. Congratulations!
(And in much the manner that it was originally written. He was a total lush.)

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Rose

It's over... YAY. I think I did alright. We will see, we will see. Tomorrow is French and then its over for good!

I know how ya feel man, but it will indeed be over before you know it. It's been over a year since I took my last exam, and a couple of months since I sat in on my last lecture.

Where am I and why am I not really a student anymore?

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by fatty

Oh come on, it's fantastic!


It's a 500-page autobiography that manages to cover the first 18 months of the narrators life. Tristram only gets round to his own birth at the end of the second volume.

Wonderfully funny, and, unusually enough, a book that needs to be read aloud