Terroir a myth?

[Keith Levenberg]

TNR = The New Republic.
NR = National Review.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
in hokey, awkward 2-D.

And B&W.

Hey, you guys are sounding just like NR now!

 

[scottreiner]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
TNR = The New Republic.
NR = National Review.

d'oh

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
in hokey, awkward 2-D.

And B&W.

Hey, you guys are sounding just like NR now!

These are more aesthetic concerns than your political read. She writes, as the French would say, like a foot.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

Aesthetically you have it totally backwards. Her prose is too florid, not too flat.

 

[Unknown]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
too many notes, not too few.

fify.

fb.

 

[BJ]

snooze.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

I like your contrapuntal work, BJ!

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Aesthetically you have it totally backwards. Her prose is too florid, not too flat.

Next up, we discuss the finer points of Gone with the Wind.

Stay tuned, kids.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by MLipton:
My OCD takes the form of feeling compelled to finish books that I start, hence I'm known among my friends as the guy who actually finished Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, Gödel, Escher, Bach, ... books that just didn't grab me: Don Delillo's Underworld,

Mark Lipton

Holy shit, Prof.! Those are all on my list too!

Delillo particularly disappointed me since I absolutely love White Noise.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Here it is.

Hey, that was a pretty good review.

Whether conservatives like her or not I suppose depends on what you mean by a conservative. What blows my mind, just a bit, is to find conservative Catholics liking her, which requires a mental agility I can't really imagine.

 

[SFJoe]

But weren't we talking about Gone with the Wind?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

D'ye mean Autant en emporte le vent?

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by scottreiner:

Idiocy

Zounds.

My nephew is interested in writing for a living. I think there is a strong Darwinian selection for this sort of thing in the current ecosystem.

It's very hard to encourage a family member to take this sort of a path.

Writing listicles for gawker, or whoever, would be more honorable.

But you would like to see the guy get a real job.

 

[Unknown]

"thus do we see unexceptional liberal-arts students lecturing other people about things they don’t understand themselves.”

seems i'm no longer young enough to know everything. you should tell b to get his skates on.

fb.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by fatboy:
"thus do we see unexceptional liberal-arts students lecturing other people about things they don’t understand themselves.”

fb.

National Review is an odd place to be lecturing about "unwarranted condescension"

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by fatboy:
"thus do we see unexceptional liberal-arts students lecturing other people about things they don’t understand themselves.”

fb.

National Review is an odd place to be lecturing about "unwarranted condescension"

Srsly.

Was anyone ever better at that than their founder? The master.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by fatboy:
"thus do we see unexceptional liberal-arts students lecturing other people about things they don’t understand themselves.”

fb.

National Review is an odd place to be lecturing about "unwarranted condescension"

Srsly.

Was anyone ever better at that than their founder? The master.

The Duc de Saint-Simon had nothing on that guy in the condescension department.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Here it is.

Hey, that was a pretty good review.

Whether conservatives like her or not I suppose depends on what you mean by a conservative. What blows my mind, just a bit, is to find conservative Catholics liking her, which requires a mental agility I can't really imagine.

It's the same conservative Catholics who cherry pick Leviticus. "Not wearing clothes made from different fibers isn't relevant but homosexuality being an abomination is the word of God."

Rand would, of course, have been the first to castigate them given her fairly black and white views on religion. Or should I say red.

 

[SFJoe]

You won't catch me in those cotton/poly blends.