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[pseydtonne]

I don't have anything brilliant to report. Just start here and watch as many of these Five-Second Films as you can.

...no relation to the five-second movies.

Much funnier.

P.S.: A Separate Peace is about preppies hating non-boring people. Thus, anyone caught feeling for the narrator should be beaten. Discuss.

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

We had to read that book in ninth grade. Effing John Knowles!

[dimers.livejournal.com]

Anyone caught requiring this book for consumption by impressionable youngsters should also be beaten. Ugh. Having learned late that some classics are actually enjoyable, I made the assumption that I was learning how to enjoy them, rather than that I was now being assigned better stuff to read. So I've gone back to try re-reading some stuff I didn't appreciate before. A Separate Peace and Wuthering Heights were on that list. I've now learned my lesson. Most classics are about hate, about which I have no desire to read. There are a lucky few that rise above.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

"Most classics are about hate" is a strong assertion but I like it. I've done some basic tests on your statement and am posting them as a new journal entry.

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

I want to hear you say more on the issue of "most classics are about hate".

I don't understand your thesis.

[dimers.livejournal.com]

'Snot a thesis, just a knee-jerk statement. I read way too many items in my youth that focused on prejudice/discrimination, revenge, jealous paranoia and so forth. I'd be much more inclined to just let shit go than the protagonists of most classic lit I've read.

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

Ahh...
That doesn't read as "hate" to me.

But yes, the "if only these people had decent communication skills/less issues" thing.

Of course, often you wouldn't have a dramatic story, goes the reasoning.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

you're also in a cultural milieu that *allows* you to let shit go -- life back then was nasty; brutish; class-conscious; knee- ankle-, and back-biting, and chock-full of societal expectations that would render you a pariah if you disregarded them.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

...but which encouraged a highly developed vocabulary on the part of the leisure classes.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

To be fair, we know use "letting it go" as a hardened cultural expectation, one that can be just as difficult to achieve if one has not been trained in it. If you say "let it go" to someone enough times, it will begin to sound very insulting. How does one adapt if one hasn't spent time with Buddhists?