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mircea_popescu: france is part and parcel of anglotard world these days.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah obv. that was back before the jobs return.
mircea_popescu: it's for people who don't like seeing peni, like alf here present :)
mircea_popescu: phf much like "solo" gets its own section at the pron store.
mircea_popescu: this activity, not just "tolkien" but generally "reading", is very much subverted in the anglotard world. have yo useen this, whole carloads of white, quiet, mousy people "reading a book" on their commute.
mircea_popescu: there's no erect penis in romeo & juliet either, see above.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the notion that tolkien is a writer is not unlike the notion that roger alexander of the us civil war reenactment society is A CIVIL WAR HERO.
mircea_popescu: just don't go around thinking / saying that "there's nothing outside of sin"
mircea_popescu: the message isn't don't eat this it's bad for you. wqhether something is good or bad is no direct relation of whether you should like it or not. if you like it, like it, and if you will sin go sin. come back when you've sinned enough.
mircea_popescu: (no, not ah, aj, it's not a misspelling, it just looks like one.)
mircea_popescu: diana_coman you know that medieval "for lack of a nail" thing ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wouldjha stop trolling them this is 101 class go to 205 and bother the twentysomethings!
mircea_popescu: if you don't, it may seem neutral. it isn't neutral, not anymore than the glass fish on the milieu.
mircea_popescu: maybe you do or maybe you don't knbow the kitsch victorian xtianity that yielded the special midgets.
mircea_popescu: if you disbelieve this, go, bring the prime number that's even.
mircea_popescu: believe it or not, there's nothing substantially wrong with the statement "no prime number is even"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is upon you to bring the exception, rather than complain of the form of the universal.
mircea_popescu: this, because idiots perceived a man with a naked woman on her knees.
mircea_popescu: phf allow me to quote to you from modern tolkien : "The heir apparent, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, is poorly regarded in Thailand and the succession has clouded the brows of not only the Thai political elite, but the Thai people, who believe a period of substantial instability will follow the King's death"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman was mostly directed at teh boys, who never read literary criticism in their lyf.
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with this, EXCEPT it comes with instructions, and the instructions include "how to castrate yourself with your new lego set"
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is it that english doesn't EVEN HAVE the word that describes its literature, ie, a rata, ratare ?
mircea_popescu: if it's famous it gets "famous" translator, who's a writer ratee, who then fills the corpse with his own crabs. gives appearance of life, movement at least.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is generally indicative of subject matter without object point.
mircea_popescu: granted the attendance is not much trained in this weird arcana, so we'll not dispose the matter on the spot. but still, worth thinking of. a book's a mechanism, like any other, not some sort of magical artefact.
mircea_popescu: and phf did the mnost that can earnestly be done, above.
mircea_popescu: i said, actually, bring out a class, a function, a fucking data type, ANYTHING, that'd show this kid can program.
mircea_popescu: ~obviously~ you could translate, if that were the matter, "oh they brought him tolkien in islandic and he doesn't read that"
mircea_popescu: that's where the simile breaks down, i even read arabic.
mircea_popescu: you think what gcc can and can't be bothered to read has to do with bugs in gcc ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman this is not true, for i am not people. i am a scholar, and when i spit an error the problem's the code not the compiler.
mircea_popescu: phf no argument there. he can be the president of the oxford medieval reenaction society and organise medieval faires. i'd go, with the chicks topless, they'd kick me out, all nice and good.
mircea_popescu: hey, it was a meal. a man without a meal is liable to do shocking things for the $50.
mircea_popescu: someone shjould ask him what ever happened to those 10 btc he broke blockchain.info to trace
mircea_popescu: one doesn't get out of literary criticism just by writing A LOT of crud people can't be bothered to read through.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not what was said ; also review the compiler point above.
mircea_popescu: adlai does it sound to you more alike "democratic" or more alike "national socialistiche" ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise this position is much like "but teach, you can't score me on my program UNTIL IT FINISHES COMPILING!!1"
mircea_popescu: i have read the book. to my standard of reading a book, which does include throw it away on its own merits.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (the french point, for ease of following : at the time james was king. the king of scotland. scotland was, throughout, and recognised at the time, a french outpost in the islands. shakespeare's own henry says as much.)
mircea_popescu: diana_coman not merely. but that he never tackled any problems.
mircea_popescu: in any case - this should prove it's not ETHNIC allergy.
mircea_popescu: eventually they decided to go with the dutch, and it turns out the dutch weren't anything but hayfire.
mircea_popescu: was a brief time in english history they were owned by the french, and it showed.
mircea_popescu: so i say "this man never amounted to anything" and you say "but he is rich" and i say "and it doesn't matter"
mircea_popescu: his characters don't fuck properly. read it side to side with, say, the decameron. ALSO an archeologist and whatnot. but one with things to say.
mircea_popescu: that's english culture, always was, will stay that way.
mircea_popescu: he is, if you wish a metaphor, in the position of the old scottish lord with a nice big castle and ample fields, sitting alone without offspring, without the possibility of offspring, disinterested in the world, waiting to die.
mircea_popescu: he comes from a dead culture. a culture which was never interesting to begin with.
mircea_popescu: yes, but i specifically disclaimed the argument as to craft. yes, the man is a crafty writer, archeologist, etc. put in the work. hard work. intelligently. yes.
mircea_popescu: so distinguish it for my benefit, should be instructive.
mircea_popescu also can't normally remember people's names. the people in question flatter themselves with the idea this is a fault of mine.
mircea_popescu: i for the life of me can't distinguish them, and this is never a good sign.
mircea_popescu: i can't help it, for all my patience i can't read ANYTHING integrally. some things annoy.
mircea_popescu: which can be said well but isn't worth saying in any case.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform their characters don't fuck properly. yes, good, as in crafty writer. still has nothing to say besides "god save the queen"
mircea_popescu: it just makes them what thgey always were : invidious barbarians lost in a distant, misty island.
mircea_popescu: a bunch of tired oxford fags trying to give their miserable subculture breath in the heavens doesn't make it a sort of byzantine "chrstian faith"
mircea_popescu: can't even fucking remember any of this crud it's always the same words in a different souping.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that if they are old enough to walk they're old enough to fuck and that's the end of the matter.
mircea_popescu: yes, this includes tolkien. no, i don't see him as much more than an earlier, therefore craftier, woman what's her name.
mircea_popescu: i never cared much for the oxford genre fiction of the 50s.
mircea_popescu: hopkins does probably his best role ~as a man~, to jack nicholson levels. debra winger is utterly superb. perfect performance.