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On August 24 2013 03:15 sam!zdat wrote:
it's about political economy and god, which is my favorite topic :D
baudrillard is an asshole and doesn't want you to understand him, but that book happened to be about stuff i was thinking about already so I enjoyed it immensely
“Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom"
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nah, it's just a game french people play. it's sort of like a seduction. would you want a woman who just threw herself at you?
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On August 24 2013 04:18 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 03:15 sam!zdat wrote:
it's about political economy and god, which is my favorite topic :D
baudrillard is an asshole and doesn't want you to understand him, but that book happened to be about stuff i was thinking about already so I enjoyed it immensely “Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom"
That's nice, but Nietzsche's opinions do not have carte blanche rule over the contours of obscurantism.
lol, just found this nietszche gem.
“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”
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On August 24 2013 04:19 sam!zdat wrote:
nah, it's just a game french people play. it's sort of like a seduction. would you want a woman who just threw herself at you?
No, it is absolutely the case of french writers being asshole-writers.  Which makes it all the more maddening that Baudrillard and Foucault pretty much captured the entirety of the twentieth century.
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On August 24 2013 04:19 sam!zdat wrote:
nah, it's just a game french people play. it's sort of like a seduction. would you want a woman who just threw herself at you?
Depends, what does she look like? 
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yes of course they are all assholes. But then you read their book and understand them anyway and you WIN. And then reading everything else is easy
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On August 24 2013 04:31 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 04:19 sam!zdat wrote:
nah, it's just a game french people play. it's sort of like a seduction. would you want a woman who just threw herself at you? Depends, what does she look like?
she looks like dan brown
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Dont complain about the French, without us you'd be left with philosopher who think all there is to philosophy is to be as clear as possible.
And much worse wine and food, and you might not know it, but you certainly wouldn't want that.
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The air would smell much better here if not for the west wind.
Well let's end it here with the french bashing. I just read Volaire's Candide btw. Lol, what a french prick interesting person.
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What's wrong with Candide?
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On August 24 2013 04:45 blubbdavid wrote:
The air would smell much better here if not for the west wind.
Well let's end it here with the french bashing. I just read Volaire's Candide btw. Lol, what a french prick interesting person.
I'd answer that if I knew from which part of Switzerland you were
Also Voltaire is a prick, but a very funny one !
In other news, ordered 15 books (!), and finished Tacitus' Annals. Good book, wish I could read it in Latin though, he was my favourite writer to translate.
Now I'm starting Nausea, which should please farva :p
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On August 24 2013 04:53 corumjhaelen wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 04:45 blubbdavid wrote:
The air would smell much better here if not for the west wind.
Well let's end it here with the french bashing. I just read Volaire's Candide btw. Lol, what a french prick interesting person. I'd answer that if I knew from which part of Switzerland you were Also Voltaire is a prick, but a very funny one ! In other news, ordered 15 books (!), and finished Tacitus' Annals. Good book, wish I could read it in Latin though, he was my favourite writer to translate. Now I'm starting Nausea, which should please farva :p
you would like to read a book in Latin...
does not compute
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On August 24 2013 04:56 Paljas wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 04:53 corumjhaelen wrote:On August 24 2013 04:45 blubbdavid wrote:
The air would smell much better here if not for the west wind.
Well let's end it here with the french bashing. I just read Volaire's Candide btw. Lol, what a french prick interesting person. I'd answer that if I knew from which part of Switzerland you were Also Voltaire is a prick, but a very funny one ! In other news, ordered 15 books (!), and finished Tacitus' Annals. Good book, wish I could read it in Latin though, he was my favourite writer to translate. Now I'm starting Nausea, which should please farva :p you would like to read a book in Latin... does not compute
Why, you've never read a book in a foreign language ?
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@xxio
I quite liked it, but if I understood it right then his conclusion is that we should just endure and do our job and such is life and so. I don't know what to make of it.
The fun thing about the book was how Voltaire comments the surrounding history and bashes his contemporary critics. The end notes of the book say that it was intended against Rousseau and Geneva preachers. Little frenchman's quarrel.
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if you're going to read one book in latin, read the golden ass
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On August 24 2013 04:59 blubbdavid wrote:
I quite liked it, but if I understood it right then his conclusion is that we should just endure and do our job and such is life and so. I don't know what to make of it.
The fun thing about the book was how Voltaire comments the surrounding history and bashes his contemporary critics. The end notes of the book say that it was intended against Rousseau and Geneva preachers. Little frenchman's quarrel.
I think the conclusion isn't meant to be serious, and it was also against Leibniz for instance. Also I'm pretty sure Rousseau never was a French citizen :p
Edit : @sam yep, I do need to read this. Alas I think I'd need two months of pretty intensive courses to be able to translate it slowly, painfully, and with a dictionnary.
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On August 24 2013 05:01 corumjhaelen wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 04:59 blubbdavid wrote:
I quite liked it, but if I understood it right then his conclusion is that we should just endure and do our job and such is life and so. I don't know what to make of it.
The fun thing about the book was how Voltaire comments the surrounding history and bashes his contemporary critics. The end notes of the book say that it was intended against Rousseau and Geneva preachers. Little frenchman's quarrel. I think the conclusion isn't meant to be serious, and it was also against Leibniz for instance. Also I'm pretty sure Rousseau never was a French citizen :p
Yeah, I meant Voltaire with "frenchman".
I always had to translate Seneca in school, I am already a half-stoic.
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On August 24 2013 04:56 corumjhaelen wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 04:56 Paljas wrote:On August 24 2013 04:53 corumjhaelen wrote:On August 24 2013 04:45 blubbdavid wrote:
The air would smell much better here if not for the west wind.
Well let's end it here with the french bashing. I just read Volaire's Candide btw. Lol, what a french prick interesting person. I'd answer that if I knew from which part of Switzerland you were Also Voltaire is a prick, but a very funny one ! In other news, ordered 15 books (!), and finished Tacitus' Annals. Good book, wish I could read it in Latin though, he was my favourite writer to translate. Now I'm starting Nausea, which should please farva :p you would like to read a book in Latin... does not compute Why, you've never read a book in a foreign language ?
i have read a book in latin.
hence my question why you would do that voluntary
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Let's divide this thread into two kinds of readers:
1. Latin elitist assholes
2. Dan Brown
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On August 24 2013 05:03 Paljas wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2013 04:56 corumjhaelen wrote:On August 24 2013 04:56 Paljas wrote:On August 24 2013 04:53 corumjhaelen wrote:On August 24 2013 04:45 blubbdavid wrote:
The air would smell much better here if not for the west wind.
Well let's end it here with the french bashing. I just read Volaire's Candide btw. Lol, what a french prick interesting person. I'd answer that if I knew from which part of Switzerland you were Also Voltaire is a prick, but a very funny one ! In other news, ordered 15 books (!), and finished Tacitus' Annals. Good book, wish I could read it in Latin though, he was my favourite writer to translate. Now I'm starting Nausea, which should please farva :p you would like to read a book in Latin... does not compute Why, you've never read a book in a foreign language ? i have read a book in latin. hence my question why you would do that voluntary
If I tried to read a real german book with my current level, I have no doubt it would be a painful experience...
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