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March 13, 2011
prejudice (n.)
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| I drink, I fall down, no problem.” ~James Joyce |
In light of some recent conversations, (either mildly inebriated or dead sober in History of Publishing class), I got to talking about Jane Austen.
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| "An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." ~Dylan Thomas |
Over the weekend, I had a chat with some friends of mine and we somehow started talking about literature (we were probably drinking scotch). Our conversation also culminated with Jane Austen by way of Joyce and Conrad.
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| "What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water" ~Douglas Adams |
I say, there's so many books out there to sift though that it is a skill in itself to discover unconventional, "non-English curriculum" authors like Graham Swift, Haruki Murakami, Richardson Davies, Ivo Andric, and Will Self - at the expense of Jane Austen - and all of whom I would have never discovered had I stuck to "Top 100 Novels of All Time" lists.
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| "Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise." ~Kurt Vonnegut |
I call it being proud in my prejudice.
There's too much to experience to not pass judgment.
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| Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)" ~Dorothy Parker |
"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
~ Louisa May Alcott
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