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[Dsarker]

Have you read the Malleus Maleficarum yet, Vector?

[Vector]

Not yet.  I doubt it could be THAT much worse, though.

On the other hand, I do have a copy of Philosophy in the Boudoir on hand, which I'll get around to reading soon enough.  That's going to be fun, where by fun I mean disgusting.

[Bohandas]

Not yet.  I doubt it could be THAT much worse, though.

On the other hand, I do have a copy of Philosophy in the Boudoir on hand, which I'll get around to reading soon enough.  That's going to be fun, where by fun I mean disgusting.

What about The 120 Days of Sodom/School of Licentiousness? Do you have a copy of that?

[Vector]

Not yet.  Waiting for later.

[Dsarker]

I'm interested because I'm planning on reading it myself

[Vector]

I have to say, it does feel pretty good that you guys say "yet"

Yes, I do plan to read all the things!

[Bauglir]

I'd be skeptical of the plausibility of such a goal. For most people.

[Dsarker]

I have to say, it does feel pretty good that you guys say "yet"

Yes, I do plan to read all the things!

[RedKing]

I have to say, it does feel pretty good that you guys say "yet"

Yes, I do plan to read all the things!

*grumble grumble* damn ninjas....

[Bohandas]

I've never even heard of Discipline and Punish, which is strange because I'm familiar with the other books in this conversation...

[Vector]

It's Foucault, which means it's more rhetoric/semiotics-side than philosophy/religion side.  It's about the development of the modern prison through the enlightenment period, after the "sovereign's right"-style public executions and tortures before the 1750s (when penal codes were changed in pretty much all western European countries).

It's fascinating, but also quite horrifying.


Current moment of sad: I never feel like I'm learning anything.  My brain somehow manages to know loads of shit (When and where was St. Augustine born?  354 AD, Hippo, North Africa.  Thank you, brain!  I last saw that information two or three months ago!), but I never feel like I do.  Sort of like I'm detached from my memory or something like that.

[Rose]

Or it could be that it wants to know things more substantial than trivia.

Like how to make a mean plate of sushi.

[Vector]

... But it does know how to make sushi =/  I make restaurant-grade tamago-sushi, and I can roll up some good other stuff, too.

I think it wants time for a Dickens marathon, but right now it's kind of forcing me to read books on rhetoric.  Fucking neurochemistry.

[ChairmanPoo]

Sleeping badly again. Might have to argue again with the idiot who wanted to give me a "prescription" for herbal tea and send me packing.

Or, alternatively, undergo licensure and do my own recipes, which is just a paper and 60€ away, really, and might be easier than to get in another argument. But it's surreal that I have to consider such alternatives because of this damn woman's insistence on being unreasonable.

[Truean]

Got stood up for a date last night. 7PM came and went; double checked directions; double checked emails on laptop; waited. Finally, put on happy face and left him a voicemail, then left. Waited for him to say something, anything. Nothing.... He has gotten the email/voicemail and is ignoring it; I keep trying to figure out why. What did or didn't I do? I had allowed myself to look forward to this second date; the first went so well. My best friend called the next day asking for details. There are no details and I had to say so.... I'm utterly and absolutely incapable of telling her anything but the whole, embarrassing truth, because she knows everything about me. I seem quite incapable of accepting her saying this wasn't my fault.

I keep trying to do good things after work to make up for what I'm quite convinced must be bad things I do. Meh.... I'm going to lay down and watch a movie or something, perhaps curl up with a book.