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02-16-2007, 07:23 PM #21Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Oprah's a tit.
End of.
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02-16-2007, 10:10 PM #22Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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02-16-2007, 10:11 PM #23Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Originally Posted by Hansel
~Dr. Michael Beckwith
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02-16-2007, 10:16 PM #24Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Originally Posted by Mrs. Greenjeans
You never cease to amaze me with your quick wit.
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02-16-2007, 10:24 PM #25Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Hmmm...she must be anti-drug.
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02-16-2007, 10:41 PM #26Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Originally Posted by Mrs. Greenjeans
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02-16-2007, 10:42 PM #27Senior Member
Oprah a god?
I just prefer for people to have actual reasons for their statements.
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02-16-2007, 10:45 PM #28Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Originally Posted by Hansel
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02-16-2007, 11:30 PM #29Senior Member
Oprah a god?
Originally Posted by Mrs. Greenjeans
The books and authors that you are espousing as worthwhile would have been tossed in the trash by him.
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Stupidity at work
by James Bowman
Stupidity at work by James Bowman
........What can account for such a lamentable failure of literary perception? The answer is hardly far to seek, and is neatly summed up in a brave piece in the September Harper??s by Francine Prose, ??I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read.? That brilliant title, just a smack at Maya Angelou, is both a positively Angelouvian mixed metaphor and a synecdoche for Miss Angelou??s disastrous influence on the teaching of English in this country.
Basing her assessment of that influence on the experience of her own two sons and a collection of some eighty high school reading lists, Miss Prose deplores the ??lemminglike fervor with which our universities have rushed to sacrifice complexity for diversity.? The result is that kids have ??slogged repeatedly through the manipulative melodramas of Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, through sentimental, middlebrow favorites (To Kill a Mockingbird and A Separate Peace), the weaker novels of John Steinbeck, the fantasies of Ray Bradbury.?
.......The result, as we now see, is that we have books about irony by twenty-four-year-olds whose knowledge of the subject comes from television and whose bibliography does not include even the names of Chaucer or Cervantes or Molière or Voltaire or Dryden or Swift or Pope or Johnson or Dickens or Twain. What he sees as the ??irony? of ??Seinfeld? is actually, like that of so much of the popular culture (see, for example, Kurt Andersen??s new novel Turn of the Century, which is full of it), a double irony??irony about being ironic. This undercuts (as it is intended to do) the moral seriousness and purpose of simple irony and so produces the Seinfeldian nihilism which is what Purdy really objects to. I suppose it is something to be hopeful about that the moral hackles of this ??Generation Xer? (a title which, to give him his due, he deplores, though Douglas Coupland??s name does appear in the bibliography) have been raised, but it would make us feel a lot better if we thought he knew what they had been raised about
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02-16-2007, 11:32 PM #30OPSenior Member
Oprah a god?
what a rant thread this has become
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