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In the ninth century B.C., the Greek stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it attempt to feed on figs.

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that's not from wikipedia.

He died during the 143rd Olympiad (208–204 BC) at the age of 73.[1] Diogenes Laërtius gives two different accounts of his death.[13] In the first account, Chrysippus was seized with dizziness having drunk undiluted wine at a feast, and died soon after. In the second account, he was watching a donkey eat some figs and cried out: "Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs", whereupon he died in a fit of laughter.
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yes it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter

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yes it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter

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another good philip k dick novel:

for people that have read murakami and thought highly of hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world:

can you list other murakami novels that you think are really good? i was looking at sputnik sweetheart and south of the border, west of the sun. anyone have any thoughts on those two?

also, have you ever read any books that somewhat resemble hb wonderland - particularly the dreary, isolated otherworldliness of "the end of the world"? this one's probably a long shot but doesn't hurt to ask i guess.

Some Sci-fi fantasy garbage I enjoyed this year:

I just finished The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. It is a fun enough read. A lot better than his Night Angel trilogy.

Before that I read The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card. His typical prodigy book. Okay read.

Just before that I read Secret Of The Dragon by Margret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. That is the second book in their new series Dragonships. It was typical of their books. If you enjoy their other works you will like this series.

Worst book I read this year:

The Magician's Apprentice by Trudi Caravan. Fucking terrible garbage.


I started to read the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin. I figure I should read it before watching the tv series and wrecking the books.[/b]
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Some Sci-fi fantasy garbage I enjoyed this year:

I just finished The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. It is a fun enough read. A lot better than his Night Angel trilogy.

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"Absence of mind" By Marilynne Robinson

What kind of guy sits around reading fantasy books? "and his heart was throbbing through his chest as she recognized his existence" (kithkanin blows load) lol weaklings
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I just finished The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. It is a fun enough read. A lot better than his Night Angel trilogy.

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I'm surprised you thought black prism was better than Night Angel trilogy.

Anyways, if you're a fantasy reader, get into Steven Erickson's series--so long as you don't mind reading 10 books over 900+ pages each. He's a bit verbose, but the world is very rich, as is the story.

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What kind of guy sits around reading fantasy books? "and his heart was throbbing through his chest as she recognized his existence" (kithkanin blows load) lol weaklings

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hey nedok you went to school for geography right? ever read any david harvey? i'll aim u if u dont see this after awhile

just finished blood meridian, hop if you haven't read it yet you should. makes the road look like a stroll through the garden of eden

that's what i heard. i just bought it a couple of months ago and it's been moving up the stack. i'm most of the way through suttree now. pretty glad i picked that one up.

its ok

I tell you this. As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior’s right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there will be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be?

You ain’t nothin.

You speak truer than you know. But I will tell you. Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.

Even a dumb animal can dance.

The judge set the bottle on the bar. Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the footlamps. Bears that dance, bears that dont.

wtf why is my post invisible

that happened to me once. copying and pasting a certain thing always made my post come up blank, dont remember what it was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch_(Julio_Cortazar_novel)

seems to happen when i put url tags around the full url the post gets invisible. anyway seems interesting so far

last thing i read was man and superman by george bernard shaw and before that i read light in august by faulkner. this book hopscotch is pretty different

my take on blood meridian was that i was obviously reading something by a really talented author but it didnt really get me, i mean you have this larger than life devil type character and some brutal historical fiction. but i didnt glean too much from it that was meaningful to me

i like it for a lot of the same reasons i liked the no country for old men movie. you have all these different guys wandering around trying to make sense out of a chaotic world. guys like the judge/chigurh are interesting because of how insane they are but then there are guys like tommy lee jones's character who really gives the story its pathos (not only by way of his personal predicament, but also the way it makes you think about life and "the bigger picture"). there isn't really a character like that in blood meridian but you have glimpses of it in some of the characters like the kid or the expriest and also a bunch of the scenes the author describes evoke the same feelings (like the dead woman the kid/man finds at the end of the book).

also the way mccarthy writes sets a really nice mood/tone for the book. i have a hard time putting these things into words but the way the coens shot no country really feels the way blood meridian felt while i was reading it. minimalistic/dreary, i dunno something like that.

GN:

do you think cyclonopedia would be accessible to someone who is a bit of a noob to philosophy? i saw it before and thought it sounded neat but wasn't sure if it would be over my head

i'm not the most well-versed in philosophy myself, i mean i have a healthy interest but i didn't major or even minor in it in school or anything. and i think its pretty accessible. even if you don't necessarily get every reference (i don't) the form and aesthetic of the writing and the narrative/mythology of the book are really cool

maybe download a pdf of something like a thousand plateaus, the experience is comparable

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have any of u guys read any george bernard shaw? was considering getting the pygmalion, any other suggestions

I read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and Lewis references Shaw's philosophies somewhat frequently. I've been meaning to look into him as well.

As for "last book I read" ... Suttree is pretty badass. It took a while to get used to it, but once I did it was great. Definitely not one you'd consider an easy read, but definitely worth it.

Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
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