Kerouac: “…Of course, the title itself is ironic. I mean, Pip, you’ll recall, never does lay his frank and beans on Estella, and Miss Havisham’s ruined coos, symbolized by the dusty, cobwebbed room in which she keeps herself, is a rotting nest of spite and regret—so, y’know, it ain’t like Pip is gonna hit that shit, either…”
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Burroughs: “If you knew how to properly read the novel as it was intended, that is to say, between the lines, you’d know that the real story has little to do with that dreadful Miss Havisham or that manipulating slut Estella.. It was in fact a story of a randy older man such as myself, named Magwitch who lived a criminal life among the drug addicts and whores and kept a beautiful young pony boy named Philip (Pip) on the side for his personal pleasure.. The actual theme would have been more obvious if he’d written in a few jissom drinking mugwumps.. or if Pip had shot Estella in the head while playing William Tell, or something..
Oh.. and the original first edition had little pictures of monkeys playing bagpipes in the borders.. what does that tell you ?
Turing word: held
Yes, they ‘held’ their bagpipes…
Hey, Barkis was willing.
Hey Gail..its not too late to change the topic of your thesis.. change it to something like;
Was Barkis Really Willing ? : A Multicultural Perspective
no one would dare fail anything with multicultural in the title… probably wouldnt even have to defend it..
I completed my course work, passed comps, finished the dissertation, won a few fiction awards…but I’m not getting my PhD because I don’t know a foreign language well enough to fulfill the language requirement.
Luckily, though, I DO get to pay back the 80K I owe in school loans.
No chance my kid is going to college.
Unless your time code is wrong, Jeff, I’m now living in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The wouldn’t accept your fluent Pig Latin? Bastards!
. . . yet it could have been worse; you could’ve gotten a degrees in Greek and Theology to help in your liquor store management career.
What “Me” said. Now I’m thinking of the moldy wedding cake in a new, unwelcome way. Thanks a lot.
Fuck academia, Jeff. My spam word is LIFE.
I’ll tell everyone at your school you said that, Gail.
….or a degree in Fine Arts to snag that phat “Deck The Walls” franchised store.
See if you can find any of them who disagree with me, Craig.
I don’t think they celebrate Daylight Savings Time in Colorado.
Or maybe it’s a Jewish thing…
That was directed at Craig who, I’m sure, does not reside in the Pacific Ocean.
Hit it; quit it; said I never did it; my thesis, that is.
And more importantly, Sean, I’m not Jewish.
I was talking about our humble Hebrew host, Craig.
I KNOW THAT, silly. Just tryin’ to piggy-back on the joke.
I’m pretty sure piggy-backing is also right out. Not kosher.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…I love me some pig!
What! We helped get you an Apple G128 dual core technologies knock-your-dick-in-the-dirt flaming ass computer and you think we can’t help you put a dent in your measly 80K government guaranteed student loans?!
Alright. Maybe not. Work on the packaging.
Ginsberg: But enough of that breeder stuff. Let’s roll out some Wilde, shall we? And looky, some Aubrey Beardsley illustrations! Hot-diggity-DAYum!
LeRoi Jones: “And who told Fagin to stay at home from the Twin Towers that day?”
Jeff, I’ve ALMOST finished paying my loans off. That gives me a measly seven years to save for my firstborn’s college experience. I don’t know WHAT the other four are going to do. Do you think I can “home school” college as well?
Carin: if as teenagers, you can impress upon your kids that they actually know almost nothing about *anything*, you’ll have successfully home-schooled them through the most important lesson college teaches. (IMHO)
Jeff: $80k and no doctorate due to a language requirement? Serious suckage indeed. Could your wife, assuming she’s 1st or 2nd generation, teach you passable Japanese? (Like you haven’t considered all your options already)
After reading a few James Clavell books I could affect several Asiatic languages fairly poorly, yet enough to annoy my spouse.
“Konnichi wa, Anjin san?”
Swedish is a pretty fun language. In fact, it’s hilarious…. I’m just saying.
You can pretend you are that muppet when you talk and it comes out right. “heunda bleunda kakelugnar! Hej Hej! jag vill pussas med dig…ska vi?
Hey, lets get together and form a university co-op online, and issue our own degrees. Why home school when you can “distance learn” … I mean, degrees from Ivy League schools are special because they represent a membership in an exclusive club.. But degrees from non-Ivy league schools? Those are E-Tickets to better employment.
Jeff.. On the language thing.. Think Ebonics.. You can learn it quickly just by watching MTV or BET… Drive over to East Colfax and hang with the Homies to fine tune your accent. Then throw that in your Phd committee’s face and dare them to disallow it.. Just dare them. If youre talking about U of C, talk to Ward first.. He’d make a good advisor.
If youre going to ”piggy-back”, I hope you at least give your ride a reach-around.
Foreign language requirement? Pah! You’ve got an honorary PhD in Humorous Letters already…
Burroughs: Shoot the bitch and write a book. That’s what I did.
Dude.. Just write a few cheesey formulaic Romance Novels under some hokey pen name.. Put a pic of Fabio as the protagonist on the cover and cash in on the lowest common denominator soft core sex entertainment market in this country. Pay off your loans.. Set aside some bucks for your little gamboler’s education.. Then go back to real writing.