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Everybody always wants to throw glass in stone houses and, sooner or later, someone's going to lose an eye!
#14: Yep, russl, that 80s grafitti was everywhere--to the extent that I felt sorry for Styx. #15: "SD: I actually would prefer to cite the voice of Borges himself as playing with the boundaries of fiction." So you are saying that I am obliged to quote the subject of my long, conceited, pointless but nevertheless misled diatribes?!? Well, I never! :) Na, I should. Just busy, just pulled an all-nighter of grading, and have another one on the way. However, I generally make it my biz to directly quote from whatever I'm analyzing in detail, and will do so, soon. Line by line. "voice of the narrative borrows so heavily from the traditions of non-fiction, historical writing and it becomes clear that we are supposed to sus out the 'truth'" Yeah, very true of B's narrative voice, and I might add that a myriad of genres are mixed in narrative voice here--that is the point of B's style-- but Pike: This is too generous to Storyteller, and I have no interest in explicating that particular narrative--IF you are still talking about that--? "what about... encyclopedia of Tlon. And what about any of the stories which end with some "author's" name and a supposed date of writing?" Whatabout? Let's discuss them at length, baby! If you study the THEORY of translation, you'll find it at work in all of Borges's stuff. Encyclopedic works, cataloguing--Robert Smithson borrows heavily from Borges for listing and catalogue-style writings--see The Collected Writings of RS for stuff again, similar to what you are doing, Pikey. You'll understand also a bit more about what I'm sposed to be doing here--the diss is to be about RS's use of literary genre...— October 2, 2009 5:44 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
why @ #26: Truly, you should keep all of this stuff together, like a long epic poem. This one could be called "screw ups n pregnant," another cool phrase you have come up with. SP confessed: "This may be hard for you to believe because I am a college graduate-but I do not have a HS diploma or a GED." It may be difficult for SurfP to understand that I nearly have a doctorate, also without HS diploma. The GED test is wicked-easy except for the math, so I dunno about bragging having not studied for it... I tell my students the very same thing, SP!— October 2, 2009 5:28 p.m.
Confessions
"I've had others plagarize my work in the past indirectly. It's a safeguard of sorts. I can always tell what's mine and what isn't." Wha! Wha kinda-- Use yer comma-spaces mistuh, like yo daddy done tole ya--!! About three months prior,I had found her pipe and some weed while going through her dresser trying to scrounge change for cigarettes.The running joke between us is I had known what I knew 3 years later,I would've kept the pot for myself... My first friend left a couple of times to use the phone upstairs. I think he was trying to score some pot. Typo-interfering-with-understanding alert (the only kind really worth reporting): So, is it three months or three years before you decided for pot? If your friends were doing it then, you would not have narced on your sister.— October 2, 2009 5:13 p.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
Guess we all felt high school wasn't worth it :)— October 2, 2009 11:18 a.m.
Three shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three!
Glad my parental unit, "desertflower313" does not make a habit of reading comments on my blogs, but thoroughly delighted to make the acquaintance of the interestingly named snarfhund. What would this be in English, now: 'snuffydog?'— October 2, 2009 11:15 a.m.
What a day!
Pike, you're a young, strapping fish no doubt, with a brain full of serious roe. I'm sure you could nullify my failing grasp of current theory--in fact, I might come to "Depends" (TM) upon that :)— October 2, 2009 11:09 a.m.
Mark-Elliott Lugo says San Diego Transit worse every year
Yeah, it does! I know someone who writes with a lot of line breaks, like you and "clockerbob" up there on the thread--her laundry lists always reads like haiku :) Good for you getting your GED! I got mine at 19, then hightailed it to City College. Oh the peaceful days...— October 2, 2009 11:06 a.m.
Unfriendly skies
Oh lord, I don't even know who this Tony Stewart is, but I LOVE it! Estrada is the king of small time commercial pushers! Ever see him earnestly hawking empty parcels of land out in the swamps of FLA?— October 2, 2009 11:03 a.m.
Unfriendly skies
"but why do they ALL have that DEEK head haircut ? why not like eric estrada ?" Hee hee. Why not, indeed, --why--! :) Hot "Latin" temper stereotype. Check. Acne. Nope. Dope? Maybe coke; after all, early 80s.— October 2, 2009 10:57 a.m.