"Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in."

Aug 01, 2006 20:14

Originally intended statement: Is dystopia a myth ( Read more... )

1984, dystopia, utopia, lord of the flies

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hitesh August 2 2006, 09:22:19 UTC
Well, I had to study it only for a few weeks and then we moved on to the next book

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code_martial August 2 2006, 09:36:22 UTC
We?

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hitesh August 2 2006, 10:32:00 UTC
"We" as in the other students in my class. What did you assume "we" meant?

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code_martial August 2 2006, 10:34:29 UTC
I didn't have any context to make assumptions about it. I thought you were reading all this stuff by yourself in the recent past.

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hitesh August 2 2006, 11:09:18 UTC
No one who is sane and doesn't want to or wish to have a degree in literature would like to read the Republic in his leisure time.

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code_martial August 2 2006, 11:22:37 UTC
I wouldn't know, obviously. I never read fat fiction stuff that goes beyond the genre of thrillers like those by MacLean or Forsyth.

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hitesh August 2 2006, 14:59:00 UTC
Hmm ... more of a Mills&Boone kind of a guy

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code_martial August 18 2006, 04:17:04 UTC
Neah, more of a Hardy Boys/Three Investigators kind of guy

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beckyjohez July 17 2008, 01:14:23 UTC
You suggested that no one is his right mind would call systems in antiquity “capitalist” or “communist”, I refuted the statement.

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kipglanchy October 9 2008, 15:48:39 UTC
After all, what man in his right mind would, in his forties, marry into an organized crime family and then decide to run for President.

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