Posts by Paul Litterick
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What bothers me is that they all want to be my Facebook Friend.
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Now would be a good time to introduce laws prohibiting cross-media ownership
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None taken Paul. Because really, it's my wife's.
Andrew, sorry; I am just depping for Craig today.
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On another matter, Mr Slack: it is noticeable,here and elsewhere, how one can divert discussion from a serious topic by mentioning cats. You may want to bear that in mind the next time you are writing a speech for a politician.
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I still hold despicable biases against the (likely totally blameless) owners of the related Audi Q7 and Porshe Cayenne. Especially the blasted Cayenne. They seem to be everywhere.
Sam, embrace your biases. Cherish them. One of the US auto manufacturers did a psychological test and found that SUV owners were vain, arrogant, stupid and insecure. They are what we think they are.
Besides, the Cayenne is ridiculous. How could Porsche do a thing like that?
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The saga began when a pile of court and other documents were dropped in a Dominion Post reporter's letterbox wrapped in a copy of the Otago Daily Times
Clearly it was the work of David Benson Pope.
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It's another first for New Zealand (but not a New Zealand First). In the shape of John Key, we have produced the first honest man ever to work on a dealing floor. It amazing that none of the others noticed.
I think we can forgive Mr Key his lapses of memory, given the strain that his moral probity must have had on his brain cells.
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Anyone who feels like a failure because they can't finish Gravity's Rainbow is lacking perspective.
But anyone who feels Gravity's Rainbow is a failure because they can't finish it is lacking more.
I didn't want to finish it. I too read as far as the BDSM Nazis and then lost the will to carry on. I realised that life had more to offer than this turgid book.
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Sometimes I wish that the business of writing novels had finished after Tristram Shandy was published. Sterne had shown that the novel was just a conceit and we could all have moved on from there. Instead we have had two centuries of novels full of Purpose and Meaning, which readers feel they 'get' or wail and gnash their teeth for the lack of 'getting.'
Our weakness for narrative made us take novels seriously. I suppose it is one of the minor human faults but it has made us into people who feel we have failed because we have not finished Gravity's Rainbow.
It is this simple: you cannot grow bananas in London, Jaguar did not make a car like that before the end of the war and Pynchon does not understand the English class system.