Monthly Archives: November 2006

quiz: what kind of literature are you?

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momma likes! And again, all too true.

You scored as A classic novel. Almost everyone showers praise upon you for your depth and enduring relevance. According to your acolytes, everything you say is timeless, erudite and meaningful. Of course, none of them actually listen to you. Nobody listens to you at all, but it’s fashionable to claim you as a friend. [not actually true: Iain Dale listens to me, although he will not, apparently, give me another link. I should invoice him!] Fond of obscure words, antiquated notions and libraries, you never have a problem finding someone to hang out with. The fact that they end up using you to balance their kitchen tables is an unfortunate side effect, but you’re used to being used for others’ benefit. Oh the burden of being Great.

A classic novel
89%
A coloring book
75%
A college textbook
71%
A paperback romance novel
50%
Poetry
43%
The back of a froot loops box
32%
An electronics user’s manual
29%

Your Literary Personality
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Ren and Stimpy Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen

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This tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the Canadian national character, particularly when you realize it was written and drawn by a Canadian (shout out to John K, homeboy!). We are obviously not entirely sane, nor healthy.

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Britney Spears on Sophocles’ Antigone

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Ladies and gentlemen, when I found this from Christies auction house on Defamer I think my brain orgasmed itself to death in a gruesome orgy of fatalistic and absurd self-abuse. Behold Britney Spears‘s junior highschool paper on Sophocles‘ immortal Antigone, foremost among the ancient Greek tragedies and possibly the greatest play ever written.

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Fellow comparative literature major, sister, mine own dear sister, knowest thou what ill there is, of all bequeathed by Alhazred, that Celebrity fulfils not for us while we live? Nothing painful is there, nothing fraught with ruin, no shame, no dishonour, that I have not seen in thy woes and mine.

And now what new edict is this of which they tell, that our Britney hath just published to all y’all? Knowest thou aught? Hast thou heard? Or is it hidden from thee that our pride and dignity are threatened with the doom of our scorned, culturally illiterate foes?

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No email of friends, raincoaster, gladsome or painful, hath come to me, since we two sisters were bereft of our degrees, expelled in one day by twofold blow; and since in this last night the blog host hath crashed, know no more, whether my fortune be brighter, or more grievous.

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I knew it well, and therefore sought to bring thee beyond the nosy receptionist, that thou mightest hear alone.

ISMENE

What is it? ‘Tis plain that thou art brooding on some dark tidings.

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Britney Spears got 88%, y’all.

Britney Spears writing on Sophocles' Antigone. The End Times Are Upon Us!

Estimate 500 – 700 U.S. dollars

Lot Description Britney Spears
A page taken from Britney Spears’ junior high school notebook containing her handwritten review of Rex Warner’s translation of Sophocles’ story Antigone, written in black ballpoint pen on either side of the page, Britney’s review annotated by her teacher with corrections to her spelling and comments including …Nice cover Organized Watch your spelling… and Write more neatly and her grade: 88; and a corresponding piece of yellow card decorated with the book’s title Antigone in black felt pen — 12x9in. (30.5×20.8cm.) (2)

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quote o’ the day: Bobby Kennedy on God and racism

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Bobby Kennedyheartlessly stolen from Spocko:

“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” – Robert F Kennedy

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Sesame Street meets Goodfellas

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From Martin Scorsese comes a new and gut-wrenching interpretation of the Sesame Street story.

In a world so familiar, some secrets just can’t stay hidden.
From the director of Goodfellas and Taxi Driver comes a story of vengence and innocence, love and violence, friendship and betrayal.

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