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Remember that whole year you had to have Piketty on your coffee table to be accepted in polite society?
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If you read anything by James Joyce it should be his letters to his wife. They are wildly entertaining.
It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/02/james-joyces-love-letters-dirty-little-fuckbird/
damnit, I was here to say “I read the Brief History of Time, but why do people want me to have read the fart guy’s book?”
A Brief History of Time is a great book, and an easy read. It was written for laypeople to be able to digest.
I came here to say this.
It is a good book and fun to read in his voice.
the universe in a nutshell is also pretty good.
Well I know exactly one person who read it from cover to cover.
My husband was required to memorize the whole book, word for word before he turned 13. He is an atheist now who scriptures Christians who don’t take care of others.
I honestly don’t think I would be surprised if one day he made a whip and started beating the shit out of money changers in Evangelical churches.
I would like to throw 1984 in the pile of references that people haven’t actually read.
Finnegans Wake lurks behind this meme, looming over the Bible.
I’m sorry, but people read the fucking Bible. Maybe not cover-to-cover or with any degree of critical analysis. But far too many people have the John 3:16 shirts on to get me to believe nobody’s cracking the spine.
The Bible is the Monty Python of religious texts. Tons of nerds have their favorite chapters and can recall them practically line-by-line.
Tons of nerds have their favorite chapters and can recall them practically line-by-line.
Which is literally the definition of citing it without reading it.
It’s the definition of people who have read it a thousand times reciting it by heart.
