Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good  

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


billytea - May 09, 2005 4:51:53 am PDT #7631 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

For over ten years I've wanted to do this book—Jesus in his own words.

Aramaic?


DXMachina - May 09, 2005 4:57:32 am PDT #7632 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Worked for Mel Gibson.


Dana - May 09, 2005 5:26:05 am PDT #7633 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I stopped reading after this first sentence.

But you missed the funniest stuff! She explains how writers are like priests!


Betsy HP - May 09, 2005 5:37:28 am PDT #7634 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Dayamn. Zorro by an actual Hispanic person? Wow.


Betsy HP - May 09, 2005 7:02:06 pm PDT #7635 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Oh, the happy, the towering glee of it. From one of those sites with term papers for would-be plagiarists:

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The French monarchy was constantly trying to tame its cunt, Chalais was executed in 1626, Montmorency in 1632 and Cinq-Mars in 1642. The cunts' military role was reduced and offices were abolished. The size of France and its large population made it difficult for the monarchy to have total control over the cunts. The vagina was unable to control cuntish rebels and illegal activity.


DXMachina - May 10, 2005 3:39:49 am PDT #7636 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It's all about pussy control.


JZ - May 10, 2005 9:40:29 am PDT #7637 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I will never know how Betsy finds these things, but I am so very grateful.

...The cunts had not been eliminated but their function had been redefined and they had adapted successfully.

In the past, Cunts gained their privileged social position through their participation in warfare...Service to the state in administration, diplomacy and commerce became ways to gain cuntish status. It was loyalty to the monarch, which aided those wanting cuntish status. This method benefited both old cunts and new cunts alike whilst helping to solidify allegiance to the monarch.

Why yes, just like it says on the home page of the site, that's a high-quality document right there.

The high-quality document about Jane Austen's use of irony is making me cry:

Irony is a humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to mean the opposite of what is said. Irony can be used in a satirical, humorous or sarcastic manner.

The way she speaks ill about Mr. Darcy is very ironic. She describes him to be"a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing (pg 9). Subsequently when Darcy was told to dance with Elizabeth primarily he was not keen on the proposal and described her as "tolerable…but not handsome enough". The two have more conversations, which lead to irony. For instance when Jane was invited for lunch and the Bingley's, Elizabeth had to go there due to unforeseen circumstances. She has a conversation with Darcy about how women in that society should be. This is when he begins falling in love with Elizabeth, while not acknowledging it.

Mr. Bennet is very ironic towards Elizabeth falling in love. He thought that she would be his 'only sensible' daughter, but instead she falls in love with Wickham, the wrong gentleman. And later falls in love with Darcy. Mr. Bennet is very ironic about this as he tells Jane "your sister is crossed in love, I find. I congratulate her" (chapter 24). And he describes Wickham to be making 'love to us all'. This is the irony of his favorite daughter falling in love. Charlotte's views are also ironically expressed as she says 'marriage had always been her object'.

In Persuasion, Anne also has a lot of ironic discourse like Elizabeth. In chapter three the fact that she knows Wentworth's name adds to the irony "'You mean Mr. Wentworth I suppose', said Anne" (pg 28), and it still in the state of creating irony.

Irony. Irony. Irony. The word has lost all meaning. Alanis has nothing on this high-quality dolt.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 10, 2005 9:46:10 am PDT #7638 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Do you suppose that's being done intentionally to get the purchaser busted, the way the profanity-laced one obviously is? Or just bad writing?


Betsy HP - May 10, 2005 9:48:40 am PDT #7639 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

It's sort of a warez site for term papers: you have to bring one to get one. I'm guessing the Austen one is somebody's trade-in.


erikaj - May 10, 2005 10:28:15 am PDT #7640 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

My dad told me I should write term papers for money once.