"What I want to say is this: - If you logically try to persuade a person that there is no absolute reason for shedding tears, the person in question will cease weeping. That's self evident. Why, I should like to know, should such a person continue doing so?"

"If such were the usual course of things, life would be a very easy matter," replied Raskolnikoff.

- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Saturday, December 22, 2007

I get to go back to bed!

I love Larry David. I want to marry him.
I ate too much.
I became too anxious at the thought of playing sudoku, so instead read a paper on "Play It As It Lays" which made references to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald which made me feel better because I felt the same sort of distant third person affectation of the novel: the term for which is 'American modernism'. Hey, I didn't know. Don't you often know things except that you don't know the conventional name for them? One of my favourite movies is "My Dinner with Andre", but I didn't know the genre was coined 'existentialism'. You learn things. Learning is good. Math is hard.
Seriously. I love Larry David.
"Thirty-five dollars to help a semi-retarded individual change a car tire".
Brilliant.

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