Patrick Idiare
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"For years, my friend Matthew and I have joked that we will never finish Ulysses because, we argued, who would be stupid enough to intentionally indulge in incomprehensible nonsense? Well, this year, I aim to be that stupid so I can finally say I've read Ulysses and thereby reach the summit of literary snobbery. Will probs take all year though bc I'll be reading it in the background of other (more interesting) books." — Jan 12, 2024 09:19PM
"For years, my friend Matthew and I have joked that we will never finish Ulysses because, we argued, who would be stupid enough to intentionally indulge in incomprehensible nonsense? Well, this year, I aim to be that stupid so I can finally say I've read Ulysses and thereby reach the summit of literary snobbery. Will probs take all year though bc I'll be reading it in the background of other (more interesting) books." — Jan 12, 2024 09:19PM
“So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.”
― Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society
― Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society
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