The guy buries his mother without tears or really any display of emotion, agrees to marry a girl he doesn't really care about, helps his neighbor beat a woman up because he doesn't really care about the morality of it, lets an old man ramble on about a missing dog because he's indifferent to the man's presence in his apartment and then kills an Arab because he's irritated from the heat and the sun.
If that's not detached I don't know what is. I will agree that it's a depressing read. I may go to Madame Bovary before reading La Peste. I liked Le Rouge et le Noir better.
If that's not detached I don't know what is. I will agree that it's a depressing read. I may go to Madame Bovary before reading La Peste. I liked Le Rouge et le Noir better.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
2011 Challenges: For January and February the challenge is...
- 01/01/2011 11:54:05 AM
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I'll play
- 01/01/2011 12:32:07 PM
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Have you read any Kelly Link?
- 03/01/2011 06:27:02 PM
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Re: Have you read any Kelly Link?
- 03/01/2011 07:36:28 PM
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We have two of her collections, yes.
- 03/01/2011 11:28:27 PM
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Both of those are available online (legally and free) as well (if anyone else wants to read them). *NM*
- 04/01/2011 10:07:58 PM
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Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book
- 21/01/2011 06:52:06 PM
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A few questions...
- 01/01/2011 04:07:09 PM
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A few answers.
- 01/01/2011 04:31:24 PM
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Sounds good.
- 01/01/2011 05:14:26 PM
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To Kill a Mockingbird is, indeed, a great book.
- 01/01/2011 06:28:40 PM
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Re: To Kill a Mockingbird is, indeed, a great book.
- 01/01/2011 06:47:37 PM
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I have my own challenge.
- 01/01/2011 06:39:08 PM
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I found L'Étranger quite dull, but my French was very poor when I read it.
- 01/01/2011 07:45:27 PM
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I think that the tone was supposed to be detached.
- 02/01/2011 03:50:10 AM
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Sweet. I'll knock out the family chronicle in a foreign language this month. 
- 01/01/2011 07:41:37 PM
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- 01/01/2011 07:41:37 PM
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I challenge you to help me!
- 02/01/2011 12:46:51 AM
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It's pretty much impossible to choose a best Classic. They're all so different.
- 02/01/2011 10:12:35 AM
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I'm going to...
- 02/01/2011 01:35:17 AM
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I'm in, I'll read "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- 03/01/2011 02:38:48 AM
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That's a fun book. And yeah, that's kind of the idea, that people will inspire each other. *NM*
- 03/01/2011 05:57:43 PM
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I'm doing that too. Got it on my kindle and am 20% done now. *NM*
- 03/01/2011 09:28:28 PM
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Question on Genre Challenge
- 03/01/2011 03:31:28 AM
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We tried to get some less-mentioned genres, so makes sense, but you can interpret them widely.
- 03/01/2011 06:23:43 PM
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What would this count as?
- 05/01/2011 02:20:24 AM
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Man its weird being on this board again. Wacky.
- 10/01/2011 09:59:43 PM
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Hey Ryan! Long time no see, alright. How's married life treating you?
- 11/01/2011 09:51:48 PM
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