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Ping Bruce in Bangkok
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:02:02 +1000, Herodotus
wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:04:01 +0700, wrote: However, as a good Moslem you are allowed four wives. Of course, If I remember correctly, you must treat each wife equally so if you built another boat...... Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) Bruce, Bruce, don't even suggest it. Another Englishman, Oscar Wilde said that "The definition of bigamy is one wife too many; monogamy is the same thing." Sorry that you have missed out on reading any D H Lawrence. Surely you must have heard of "Lady Chatterly's Lover', "Sons and Lovers" and "Women in Love"? I know that I meet few Americans who have read any of Hemmingway or Mark Twain apart from "Tom Sawyer", but I imagined that you were of an earlier generation. A great American, Carnegie, gave a lot of money to build libraries in places such as little N.Z. I used to believe as a kid that therefore (kid logic) Americans were a very well read people. This was reinforced when I was about 10 and somebody bought me the 52 volume set of Encyclopedia Britannica - 'Great Books of the Western World" - produced, not in the UK, but by the University of Chicago. everything from Homer to Freud including Plato, Euripides, Descartes, Shakespeare, Euclid and so on including my own Uncle Herodotus after whom I named my boat. At 10 I believed that Americans must be reading these. Pretty dumb huh! cheers Peter Ah Peter, the last work iin morning after remarks, "I'd like to marry you but I'd have to build a boat first...." Probably in self defense, my mother introduced me to the public library as soon as I could read. My Goodness, there was a lot of information in that building and right on the way home from school -- if I took a bit of a detour. At one time I was the youngest person in my home town to possess a "library card". I guess I have read D.H. Lawrence, at least the more lurid parts of Lady Chatterly. Really hard core stuff in my youth. Hemingway, is good and bad. Most of the bull fighting books were great on detail but dwelled, and dwelled, and dwelled, and dwelled on the tension and fear building up before the matador enters the ring. I found them tedious. On the other hand the old man and the sea, was, I believe, one of the best books about small time commercial fishing that has been written. Mark Twain (which, by the way, is 12 feet) is a writer that I enjoy as I do Kipling. Neither of them would be published in the present day of "political correctness" which seems a puzzle as it is neither political nor correct, but that is another story. I keep a copy of Kim and re-read it at least once a year. Most of my reading lately is trash. I work on the boat; I eat supper; it's too early to go to bed; I read a book, the last thing I want to do is read a good book because I've got to get up tomorrow and do it all again, so I read trash. Science Fiction; Fantasy; Detective stories, etc. Well, given that you have a boy in high school it might have been correct, when you were ten, that Americans read, but it certainly isn't true now. I have no contact with the U.S. except for the internet so can't say from experience but when I read some idiot's remarks about something he saw on TV that is physically impossible it really makes me wonder. But then have political leaders who are old enough to remember the last time we got ourselves into a situation where we didn' know how to get out of it and did it again. Truly, Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Enough for this evening. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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