Comments | undeadgoat: Al Gore and The West Wing and so on

undeadgoat

Al Gore and The West Wing and so on

Mar 20, 2008 20:35

Hello, livejournal land! I just realized I haven't posted in wonks! Well, actually, I've been "realizing" that a lot over the past eight weeks or so. HOWEVER I just realized that I was going to post my posts from my "50 book challenge" thread over at LibraryThing. And the one I posted today seemed like a particularly apt place to get back to it. ( ( Read more... )

al gore, josh lyman, books, the west wing

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lowfatsourcreme March 21 2008, 20:02:47 UTC

How do you manage to read so many books? I think I will go read some more Dawkins to stop feeling bad about this.

And I've never quite understood that quote at the end... a discussion with "diction"? Well, if that's what's important...

undeadgoat March 22 2008, 21:22:25 UTC

Well, he is an oratorical snob. And I'm pretty sure he means diction in opposition to blather and not diction in opposition to, I dunno, having a slight speech impediment. If that makes sense.

And I'm not quite sure how I manage to read so many books either . . . I think it has something to do with reading all the time? But then I also read periodicals, and I often start books and don't finish them, and I do my homework with alarming regularity, and I've been watching a lot of DVD's recently. Also I play electronic mind-wasters a bunch. So really, I have no idea.