I made choco custard yesterday and i was very proud of myself :P.
I kind of like the cooking thing. I guess what I like is just having the option, and being able to pick what I eat, not like the caf where you know.
Isn't Brave New World AWFUL? Gosh I hated that book. Thank you for hitting me over the head with a point that, as a viewer from later in history, I have considered and dealt with!
I know! Isn't cooking the BEST? It's fun to go out and have a mad all-you-can-eat buffet once in a while, but you eat so much better and yummier this way. Or theoretically at least you should, unless you're like me and eat only porridge for a week. :S I don't know about BNW... it's not my favorite by far but it could be a lot worse. The problem is that Huxley is too caught up in trying to construct the dystopia that he forgot that he was writing a story, the dialog that uses phrases like 'pneumatic' and 'ford' too much really bother me. It's an interesting concept really poorly written, that's the problem.
Yeha; but he wrote an essay to the effect of the novel, and I think the essay is where he should have stopped; I therefore have no love for the novel, even though I understand the place in the discourse of modern western culture that his point has, because I think it's too fatalistic in the first place. So it's like ... you take a point I would only like to consider in 2000 words or less, write a story with no other redeeming qualities and a bunch of bad, one-dimensional characters in a one-dimesional universe with really irritating dialouge (the pneumatic thing really irritated me. I do not think pneumatic will ever mean good in the sack. pneumatic things, I think, are patently unfun to have sex with, were you to try. Also it put mental images of bionic-woman sex with much hissing of air and ill fitting connections of gaskets ... ) and all od it was just SO freaking OVERDONE it was painfully, painfully clear he's an essayist and emphatically NOT a novellist, and I think it's a huge pity the novel and not the essay is what we're
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I kind of like the cooking thing. I guess what I like is just having the option, and being able to pick what I eat, not like the caf where you know.
Isn't Brave New World AWFUL? Gosh I hated that book. Thank you for hitting me over the head with a point that, as a viewer from later in history, I have considered and dealt with!
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I don't know about BNW... it's not my favorite by far but it could be a lot worse. The problem is that Huxley is too caught up in trying to construct the dystopia that he forgot that he was writing a story, the dialog that uses phrases like 'pneumatic' and 'ford' too much really bother me.
It's an interesting concept really poorly written, that's the problem.
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