Posted by George Hester on 10/09/05 17:25

"Triffid" <spamme@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4349484b@212.67.96.135...
> George Hester wrote:
>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Could be you are being ignored. The other thing is the provider
> >>>needs to refresh their shares. Other thing is the sharer may have
> >>>deleted the file. Lastly but not foolish really the sharer is
> >>
> >>French-Grrr...
> >>
> >>>they just don't know how this thing works. They are all dumb when it
> >>>comes to WinMX and I actually love their culture.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I thought you were American, George?
> >>
> >
> > I am but I recognize a superior culture when I see one. Without the
French
> > we'd still be reading things like Tom Clancy instead of James Joyce.
> > Neither French I know but if it wasn't for the French Joyce would never
have
> > existed. Same could be said for Melville; Pynchon; Gaddis; Bester.
> >
>
> ITYF that we're /all/ reading Harry Potter. Nobody has ever read James
> Joyce and lived to tell the tale. However since the Philosophers Stone
> device is based on the meanderings of Nicholas Flamel, a French
> alchemist, I concede your point.

No don't say that. Have mercy upon me. Joyce is probably the greatest
writer of the 20th Century. If you are in school then maybe you might have
to read him. But that is not the way to do it. Get his "Ulysses" and just
plow into it. Keep plowing. Then when you are done just go on living.
After a while you will keep coming back to it over and over again in your
mind. It may not make sense as you read it but in a few years it will all
fall into place. Quite an amazing book.

Now for his last one "Finnegan's Wake." That takes a little help. But the
same thing will happen only that one is really going to try your mind. I do
not agree that it's his best I think Eric Clapton said that but I have
rarely read a book that just sings.

Nicholas Flamel - hmm... unfamiliar with him. The French were great
Alchemists too.

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George Hester
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