plagarized stuff
I was going to write a satire of this, or a parody or point counterpoint then i realized that staring at a blank screen until 7 in the am isn't so conductive to anything except delusional thoughts on how brilliant my lj entry was going to be.
and that if i posted nothing everyone would still think i'm dead.
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A GIRL YOU SHOULD DATE
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.
- Rosemarie Urquico -
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For the record I think we NEED to stamp out this threat that hegemonic bastion of idolatry that is literate women!
Congress should be made well aware of the dire threat of underage literate women!
They (the women) have actual informed opinions on what they actually like and they aren't easily persuaded by something (or someone) spending globs of money just to prove how great they are.
And that's when they are too young to vote! we need to raise the voting age to 67 or 68 for women. education makes them understand complicated issues!
Secondly sniffing books? that's the smell of decay. They can smell the rot and decay in civilization. And they love it, nay embrace it. For only a true individual can not only avoid fear of the vissitudes of life or tolerate it but willingly embrace it and accept like (like an unbalanced ballooning federal deficit)
Third. She's a cheap date. You provide the coffee and she entertains herself. Or put a cheaper substitute tea in fron of her. Or If you where really unscrupulous you can even put it on her tab. she wouldn't notice. A man's got to have standards and its not a fun date if you're not shellacking out less than $870 :P
Fourth she cheats on you. All the time, with people that don't exist!
Think you are good? compared to Mister darcy? heathcliff? Romeo? byron?
good luck with that
and that if i posted nothing everyone would still think i'm dead.
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A GIRL YOU SHOULD DATE
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.
- Rosemarie Urquico -
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For the record I think we NEED to stamp out this threat that hegemonic bastion of idolatry that is literate women!
Congress should be made well aware of the dire threat of underage literate women!
They (the women) have actual informed opinions on what they actually like and they aren't easily persuaded by something (or someone) spending globs of money just to prove how great they are.
And that's when they are too young to vote! we need to raise the voting age to 67 or 68 for women. education makes them understand complicated issues!
Secondly sniffing books? that's the smell of decay. They can smell the rot and decay in civilization. And they love it, nay embrace it. For only a true individual can not only avoid fear of the vissitudes of life or tolerate it but willingly embrace it and accept like (like an unbalanced ballooning federal deficit)
Third. She's a cheap date. You provide the coffee and she entertains herself. Or put a cheaper substitute tea in fron of her. Or If you where really unscrupulous you can even put it on her tab. she wouldn't notice. A man's got to have standards and its not a fun date if you're not shellacking out less than $870 :P
Fourth she cheats on you. All the time, with people that don't exist!
Think you are good? compared to Mister darcy? heathcliff? Romeo? byron?
good luck with that