Posted by George Hester on 10/09/05 18:09

"Triffid" <spamme@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> George Hester wrote:
> > "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.
>
> No Mercy. It's the Rules.
>
> > Joyce is probably the greatest
> > writer of the 20th Century. If you are in school then maybe you might
have
> > to read him.
>
> Now if I didn't know better I'd say that was sarcasm. But I do, sadly.
>
> > But that is not the way to do it. Get his "Ulysses" and just
> > plow into it. Keep plowing.
>
> ... OTOH I could just eat my mattress. Same mental stimulation, more
> nutritional value.
>
> > Then when you are done just go on living.
>
> See above. If not in coma, consult Beckett.
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Amazing yes. More amazing that he conned someone into printing it in the
> first place.
>
> > 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.
>
> Clapton said what exactly? He was the sort of bastard who just picked up
> a guitar and played. I just picked up a guitar and failed. Hate him.
>
> >
> > Nicholas Flamel - hmm... unfamiliar with him. The French were great
> > Alchemists too.
> >
>
> There cannot be a great alchemist, by definition.

Come on Buddy you've read him. I can tell putting Beckett in there. Now he
wa definitely a loser in his Novels. His plays are fine but his Novels are
worthless.

Very good the Matress comment. I cannot top that you got me there.

He said Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" was the best book ever written. If it
wasn't Clapton it was someone who played music as well as he does and so you
probably would hate him too whoever it was.

Why not can't there be a great Alchemist? Nostradamus was an Alchemist and
some consider he was great. Just because they couldn't really turn lead
into Gold means nothing. Albert Einstein thought there was a Unversal
constant that he spent better on 15 years trying to manipulate. He was
great also in spite of his little dumb quest.

Oh I just want to finish on my observations on the French Beckett
withstanding. The French are the experts on things having to do with the
essence of the mind. The Brits and Germans are the greatest at things
having to do with the realm of the tangible. Not the French. What are we
good at in America? Stealing all the experts.

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George Hester
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