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GODDAMMIT Hegel's LADDER not letter - first goodreads update in ages and I fuck it up. Typical.

Hey Geoff! Missed ya. Thanks for the link - will download. I found listening to lectures on Heidegger really helped me understand him, so hopefully this will help with my Hegel issues.

Nice to see you around Geoff!

Yes - these are great! Not that I have reference point to what's "great" or not when it comes to Hegel, but I've found them helpful, and they move chronologically through the Phenomenology, I think they're worth your time. Hope all is good with you man!

Joshua wrote: "Nice to see you around Geoff!"

Thanks man! Trying to find some time to review again, but it's tough these days. I miss y'all

Same professor also has lectures on the Science of Logic on Archives.org - listened to some of those too and they're worth it

Thanks for the link Geoff! Hope you've been well.

Ronald wrote: "Thanks for the link Geoff! Hope you've been well."

As well as can be expected in a shattered, fallen world! Thanks!

Good to hear from you again, Geoff.

Welcome back, man!

Thanks guys, gonna still be in and out of here, but will try to be something of a presence

There's a Geoff-shaped hole in GR these days...you are missed, buddy.

Geoff,

So good to see you, man. I'm hit-or-miss on here myself these days, but good knowing you're well and all is truckin'.

You guys are the best - I'm going to try to be around as much as I can - maybe even write a real review or two - thanks for the kind words

Geoff wrote: "maybe even write a real review or two"

Whoa, you have been gone a while. We don't even write reviews on here any more. Get with it.

Geoff wrote: "You guys are the best - I'm going to try to be around as much as I can - maybe even write a real review or two - thanks for the kind words"

Reviews are soooooo Q1 2017.

Geoff, we've adopted the Threat Alert color system to our own purposes instead of 'words.' Of course this whole message should really just be a big box of yellow, but I thought I'd catch you up to speed. (yellow)

(Orange) (Orange) (Red!)

Hey, I know this is off-topic, but you all out there who've read the Plum in the Golden Vase, I'm about to order it - but is it really a dirty book? Like real dirty? Cuz I'm in the mood for an ancient, really dirty book.

Geoff wrote: "(Orange) (Orange) (Red!)"

Pshit! See you in the GR Post-Nuclear Fallout of Fine Spirits, Tobacco, and Snobbish Literature Designed to Aggravate the Recently-Vaporized Ian Graye's Soul Bunker!

(Hey, not jump right in, but is he still around, and up to shenanigans?)

And is my Trump thread still going? I lost all will to keep up with it, or even look for it

Geoff wrote: "(Hey, not jump right in, but is he still around, and up to shenanigans?)"

Just last night. Like I said, I've been largely gone too of late, but Jonathan hipped me to the fact that in a Paul Bryant review he brought me up out of NOWHERE as Nathan's "goon squad." To which, whatever. Fuck that guy. He's openly threatening to 'out' Nathan now. So...what the fuck?!?

These are the things that make me want to stay away.

Yeah, maybe I'll just go away. It's amazing he's still it. The sad, debilitating effects of dementia.

"Still at it" sorry typo

Serious - not thinking about him for months was great. I do miss intelligent talk about books though

I actually grew to loathe my endless Trump thread - thought about nuking it so many times. But other people seemed to, like, enjoy it

Geoff wrote: "I actually grew to loathe my endless Trump thread - thought about nuking it so many times. But other people seemed to, like, enjoy it"

I don't know it's status, but it seemed to become a self-edifying place. I unsubscribed for sheer reason of phone updates alone. My God--these kids with their fuckin' politics! Whatever happened to sex, dope, and fucking in the streets?!?

Cody wrote: "Whatever happened to sex, dope, and fucking in the streets?!?

Now you know how I spent my months away from Goodreads.

Geoff wrote: "Cody wrote: "Whatever happened to sex, dope, and fucking in the streets?!?

Now you know how I spent my months away from Goodreads."

Rooster,
Been meaning to tell you sorry about the road-burn, brother. I couldn't tell where you began and Thumper ended or Corn Cob started or She-Wolf ended. Look: it was a crazy few nights in Baltimore. Heat/moment, and all. Hope the (physical) scars have healed.
Love,
Jawbone

Ahaha good stuff

But for real, to all you Goodreads addicts, of which I am one - it feels really healthy to step away for awhile, to not have to report on everything you're reading, to not have to broadcast opinions, or receive the broadcasting of others, or to deal with Graye snakes, Trump threads, etc. Giving it a break is good - I endorse it. Breaks from lots of things feel necessary these days.

Geoff wrote: "But for real, to all you Goodreads addicts, of which I am one - it feels really healthy to step away for awhile, to not have to report on everything you're reading, to not have to broadcast opinion..."

Orange

Geoff wrote: "ancient, really dirty"

Tryin' to think of a "yur mom" joke here.

Joshua wrote: "Geoff wrote: "ancient, really dirty"

Tryin' to think of a "yur mom" joke here."

I set 'em up, you knock 'em out

Honest, it only took one scroll through my feed to get sick of all these opinions again. Maybe I'll peace out again.

Geoff wrote: "Honest, it only took one scroll through my feed to get sick of all these opinions again. Maybe I'll peace out again."

Honestly buddy, I avoid the feeds like the plague. There be ire and too much negative blahblahblah. Just do whatever feels best. For me, it's popping up occasionally and dumping a fuck-load of reviews at one time, then disappearing back into the darkness. Like Batman. Or a mugger/critic.

Ian brought this thread into that thread over there. But if he blocked me, and I blocked him, how...? Wish goodreads security was a little stronger, so I didn't have to put up with abusers. Oh well, stupidity continues and I give no fucks

Literally back a half a day and the deranged old man is up in my business. Dude needs serious psychological treatment.

Straight up, you guys over in Ian's threads? Y'all are some weird motherfuckers.

Haha! Is it still going?

Sure is! Go over there and have a look at those dipshits!

I hate car wrecks, but...

Oh, who am I kidding!

Goddamn it. Got sucked back in. I think I'm out again as well. Take care, Geoff. PM me if you ever need anything, I'll get alerted by my phone. Can't understand this evil and want no part.

C

Geoff wrote: "Sure is! Go over there and have a look at those dipshits!"

Ian Graye is probably mentally ill. HappleB or whateverthefuck is clearly a sockpuppet he made to have a conversation with himself about us.

Does it get more pitiful?

It would be difficult to get more pitiful, for sure

Dunno, but everything says 'LEAVE' to me.

Fuck him and his cadre of hole-tonguing zombies. I'll be damned if I let that outback fuck ruin Goodreads for me.

Welcome back, Geoff.

Thanks Hadrian, fairly certain you've got a couple hundred reviews for me to peruse!

Cody wrote: "Dunno, but everything says 'LEAVE' to me."

I know I know ;; but guys, this is goodreads (a corner at least) and it's fantastic and we've got books. Fantastic fucking books! Books books books! As religious people say (bowing heads), Let us read.

Books books books! Glorious books. Short books long books. FAT books and skinny books and stories and novels and poems and epics and love stories and stories of war and stories of oppression and stories of revolution. And a whole quagmire of philosophy and theory and criticism and dictionaries. We've got Shakespeare and Rabelais. We've got Pynchons and Ms Youngs. We've got DFW and probably a hell of a lot of acronyms. And we've got Hegel. We've got Hegel to read. And Bottom's Dream. And and and we've got BURIED books and Small Press books and translated books and stuff from SoAm and Hungary and Turkey and the LAL and Murty and we've got Homer and and and fuck we've got you gr=Authors putting out books we can't knot=read.

DontLeave. Fuck! We;ve got buks!