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Author: | Rinox [ Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:16 pm ] | |||||||||
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W00tz0rs http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_ ... as_pynchon
Sounds mightily promising! Gonna be a bitch to understand again tho. |
Author: | Arathorn [ Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:47 am ] |
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Who the fuck is that? |
Author: | Rinox [ Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:11 am ] | |||||||||
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Damn uncivilized engineer students. Pynchon is the most important postmodernist writer...I'm usually not really into postmodernist stuff, but he is actually brilliant. His 'grand books' are true masterpieces where he blends historical facts with science, myth and religion, and plays with the modernist/postmodernist transition(s). He likes to throw in a lot of facts, or even substories that aren't necessarily linked but that suggest a lot....without ever saying it. At the end of one of his books you're often like 'so...what was the point? that there isn't a point?'. It's unusual to read a book that doesn't have a point, cos you're used to it. Anyway, it's hard to explain. Suffice to say that Pynchon is a brilliant writer and a mysterious figure. He has never given an interview, and no one knows what he looks like (!). The most recent pictures of him are from his high school year book and of his time in the navy. That was close to 50 years ago. He did make an appearance in the simpsons a while ago, but his character was wearing a bag over his head, hehe. It's just amazing that a writer of his standing is a complete mystery to the public, and for that long. No pictures, interviews, anything. He doesn't write very fast either. A fascinating figure, but an amazingly talented writer for sure. If you're up for a mindfuck, try picking up a copy of his first grand novel; V. You won't be disappointed, but reading it takes some perseverance and time. From Wikipedia
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Author: | Arathorn [ Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:49 am ] |
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FYI, I recently stopped my mechanical engineering studies. My new study will probably be something very alpha. OK, I'll read that book sometime, but I have 1.5 book to complete soon, preferably within two weeks. |
Author: | Rinox [ Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:51 am ] |
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Why did you quit? Not your thing after all? And I didn't get the alpha thing...the army? |
Author: | Arathorn [ Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:43 pm ] |
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Eh alpha, beta, prolly a Dutch thing. Over here we call the technical stuff beta studies, and the rest alpha. Actually, things like psygology is called gamma, and perhaps history too, but to me that's all the same. Anyway, I'm interested in almost everything, and mechanical engineering sounded like a challenge, but it didn't interest me enough to give me the discipline to really learn all the stuff. I'm thinking about starting European Studies in Amsterdam. |
Author: | Satis [ Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:44 pm ] |
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I know what kind of studies I'd be pursuing in Amsterdam. |
Author: | Arathorn [ Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:34 am ] |
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You Yankees are all the same. |
Author: | Rinox [ Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:24 am ] |
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Hehehe...what does European Studies entail though? Does that mean you're going for a post in the EU? Shake that ass and grab that cash! |
Author: | Arathorn [ Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:41 am ] |
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It focusses a lot on European integration yes, but I have to take a secondary course too, I can take a modern language, history, economics and legal, but I'll probably choose history. |
Author: | Rinox [ Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:02 am ] |
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Mm, cool. Well, history is awesome (I doubted for a while between Germanic languages, Romanic languages and History...7 years ago ) but if I were you I'd take a relatively rare language. Norwegian, Polish, Italian, Hugarian...whatever. From the little of job profile experience I have (I have many friends who have a lot tho) a language always gets you somewhere -especially one that few Dutch-speakers are proficient in. But hey, just sayin'. |
Author: | Arathorn [ Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:27 am ] |
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Languages are not my strong point, unfortunately. I would like to learn Italian some day, but that's supposed to be relatively easy. At the moment I only speak Dutch and English fluently, and I understand German but can't really speak it, so according to EU standards my knowledge of languages is too low. |
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