"to read makes our speaking English good"

[lauralh]

I've been reading heraclitus from start to finish for the past week or so. Fascinating stuff. I mean he's clearly crazy verging on insane, but he's also brilliant. Now when I say "crazy" I mean, well, you know. Basically being crazy means someone sees the world differently than you do, and being insane means you see it so differently than society does that you're not quite able to function. So I see people who are religious as being crazy, but only fantatics as being insane.

Anyway his incessant ranting about books and such inspires me to go fucking finish my library books already. On the other hand reading his journal psyches me up in a way that makes me want to read more just to get more psyched up. It's rather like reading erotic literature or watching a softcore porn, where you're torn between reading/watching more to get more turned on versus stopping and getting off already. But I think I've reached the point, and I'll now go read till I fall asleep.

Comments

[thepublicguy.livejournal.com]

Without wishing to be mean, I think lack of sex has something to do with it.

There's the old saying, "Politics is show business for ugly people".

Maybe you could extend that to "Academia is show business for the socially retarded."

Of course, I love college libraries and am attracted to academia.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Well, as I work in the software industry I have my own view on social retards ...

(are you referring to lack of sex on my part, or his part?)

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[thepublicguy.livejournal.com]

I would hope that any parts involved are private.