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Filip... do you have any context...
May 30, 2019,16:26 PM
on that Margaret Atwood quote?
And that Nabokov quote about thinking in images, makes sense... language being a learned / cultural skill. Listening to music would also be at a different level.
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Thursday Quote Day, Week 22, 2019
By: cshimokita : May 30th, 2019-02:16
A few quotes from Hunter S. Thompson (18-Jul-1937 ~ 20-Feb-2005), an American journalist, author, and founder of the "gonzo" journalism movement (a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of ...
So what watch would he wear?
By: sentarex : May 30th, 2019-03:03
I’m thinking something weathered, time only, not mainstream or new and expensive. Maybe an old FF or perhaps a jlc deep sea American dial.
Thompson died by suicide at the age of 67
By: cshimokita : May 31st, 2019-05:53
I have read many of his books and a couple of them more than once. Some of the funnest and wittiest writing ever... In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were fired out of a cannon.
Thanks mpg13... second edition would be fine...
By: cshimokita : May 30th, 2019-08:25
I am located in Tokyo and looking for something a little closer to home as a first choice. There is one online used shop in Tokyo with a copy. I will try the local big-store book shop in the next couple of days for a new copy, if not there does seem to be...
One, Two and Five.... (plus my own contribution for the week!)
By: InHavenPro : May 30th, 2019-13:34
are very, very good elaborations on universally philosophized subject matter. Number three is as ambiguous in my opinion as H.S.T. was as a human being, sheer excellence on one end and sheer stupidity on the other xD - I never needed to be remotely as rec...
Nietzche's....
By: InHavenPro : May 30th, 2019-16:39
quote is undoubtedly among my top-three favorite love themed quotes and on further inspection might even become number one . Tolstoy's is an all-time truth told by many varying writers, philosophers and other intellectuals.... Cheers and thanks for partic...
Filip... do you have any context...
By: cshimokita : May 30th, 2019-16:26
on that Margaret Atwood quote? And that Nabokov quote about thinking in images, makes sense... language being a learned / cultural skill. Listening to music would also be at a different level. Casey
Nabokov is dead-on....
By: InHavenPro : May 30th, 2019-18:20
with that statement from my perspective. I always felt considerably more inclined to visually arranging and contextualizing stories than using a plethora of spoken/written words in any language to communicate my viewpoint. That always imbued me with confi...
+1 Nabokov..
By: Echi : May 30th, 2019-20:33
With language as some sort of dull background music to accompany the visuals.
;)
By: InHavenPro : May 31st, 2019-00:45
Cheers, Filip
I remember a Hunter S story about traveling across the Pacific to Hawaii
By: cazalea : May 30th, 2019-15:54
Think back to time when aircraft bathrooms were stainless steel and the poo went into a holding tank rather than being sucked out into the atmosphere. Now the story begins. and I paraphrase from memory: H S T went to the loo, and somehow clumsily dropped ...
"All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name"
By: cshimokita : May 31st, 2019-00:31
is a quote from André Breton (1896 – 1966), a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He wrote the first Manifeste du surréalisme (Surrealist Manifesto) which defined surrealism as " pure psychic automatism "... in spite of all that, I like the quote ; ). ...