Posted on 03/09/2007 11:22:35 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
Here's a passage from "Ulysses", selected completely at random:
Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghostwoman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will. From before the ages He willed me and now may not will me away or ever. A lex eterna stays about Him. Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial? Where is poor dear Arius to try conclusions? Warring his life long on the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. Illstarred heresiarch! In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia. With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne, widower of a widowed see, with upstiffed omophorion, with clotted hinderparts.
Anyone who can remotely comprehend this must be some sort of brainiac with a giant mutant head.
"One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch." Possibly the greatest novel ever.
C'mon, haven't you had the urge to make a banana breakfast with banana waffles, banana syrup, sliced bananas, with banana cream topping and a banana daiquiri to kick it off?
I had a girlfriend who went on a John Fowles kick... made me read 'em... ugh.
...baseball is webbed with hands of the sinister....
...baseball is webbed with strands of the sinister....
make that ...well-spidered with white suggestions of the sinister
Godel Escher Bach
Anything by Cornell West
It's beyond me how anyone can take a subject with so much potential and just garble it so bad that the only thing you walk away with is thinking that the author is a rambling and insane idiot who can't string two sentences together without losing his train of thought.
I have no idea how this book ever got past the editors.....
That was one of my favorite reads of all time. Enough that I went and bought several other books Umberto Eco wrote...
Dammit... are you saying that I have to try again?
=;-o
Please don't stop... one of the quotes Eco is most quoted on is "...the first one hundred pages of my book is the price you pay for a good story and if you can't do that, you don't deserve it"
Little did anyone realize that Bananas Foster would become an international favorite and is the most requested item on the restaurant's menu. Thirty-five thousand pounds of bananas are flamed each year at Brennan's in the preparation of its world-famous dessert.
Bananas Foster
Ingredients:
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup banana liqueur
- 4 bananas, cut in half lengthwise, then halved
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
Directions:
* Combine the butter, sugar, and cinnamon in a flambé pan or skillet.
* Place the pan over low heat either on an alcohol burner or on top of the stove, and cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves.
* Stir in the banana liqueur, then place the bananas in the pan.
* When the banana sections soften and begin to brown, carefully add the rum.
* Continue to cook the sauce until the rum is hot, then tip the pan slightly to ignite the rum.
* When the flames subside, lift the bananas out of the pan and place four pieces over each portion of ice cream.
* Generously spoon warm sauce over the top of the ice cream and serve immediately.
Serves Four
Let's not forget dessert, Mrs. Quoad's delicious English candies!
I actually found Godel Escher, Back to be one of the easier reads out there. Mind's I was also an enjoyable read.
Recursive logic along the lines of Hofstadter's law,...It always takes longer than you expect,...even when you taken Hofstadter's law into account...
Pretty much the same thing, except for the oregano hangover and the tiny green hairs that grow close to the bottom of the plate on the third day.
You forgot the Everclear....
Keeper, nonetheless.....Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation!
My sinister got bit by a mousse once.
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