what are you reading now?

[catalog]

i take the dylan thomas approach - if you move to the sun, you can't write with an aspiration. i love the grim north. london's way more brutal in terms of people

 

[luka]

That's a common misconception. London is the gentlest place I've been to. Every time I come back I'm struck by how patient kind and polite everyone is. I really mean that. It's a big village and very soft and gentle.

 

[catalog]

i sort of know what you mean actually, like when you get your local sorted and so on. but general day to day in london can be a right pain in the arse. most of my IRL mates have now all moved to bristol so we have floated the idea of moving there but it's basically too expensive cos it's just become an annexe of london. music scene gone downhill as well nowhere near as good as manchester

 

[luka]

Well enough chit chat time for substantial intelligent conversation now

 

[catalog]

come on then, do some hierophanting for the lads

 

[IdleRich]

He'd read Dickens in English but wouldn't read Lermontov in English. He's foreign. He's a Dutchman.

But Yyaldrin's posts his English is easily good enough to read Dickens. Plus he never said in what language he'd read A Hero For Our Time, I guess it has been translated into Dutch. Apparently there aren't many good Russian-Portuguese translations, many of the classics are (or were originally) translated to Portuguese from the English translation of the Russian original.

 

[yyaldrin]

But Yyaldrin's posts his English is easily good enough to read Dickens. Plus he never said in what language he'd read A Hero For Our Time, I guess it has been translated into Dutch. Apparently there aren't many good Russian-Portuguese translations, many of the classics are (or were originally) translated to Portuguese from the English translation of the Russian original.

i read hero of our time in english and that was just fine so i'm gonna get a dickens book as well and see if i like it. i just want to read something that makes me think of sitting beside a fireplace in the shire.

 

[catalog]

yeah that is most definitely dickens mate

 

[IdleRich]

i read hero of our time in english and that was just fine so i'm gonna get a dickens book as well and see if i like it. i just want to read something that makes me think of sitting beside a fireplace in the shire.

Yeah that's Dickens alright.

 

[catalog]

rich dont forget to write that page!

 

[IdleRich]

I just saw that above... I will try and get something to you today

 

[Woebot]

i read hero of our time in english and that was just fine so i'm gonna get a dickens book as well and see if i like it. i just want to read something that makes me think of sitting beside a fireplace in the shire.

bleak house - that's my favourite dickens. comes highly recomended.

 

[Mr. Tea]

bleak house

I like to imagine this as some obscure, miserablist dance music subgenre, no doubt Dissensus-approved.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I see @woops has got into the spirit of things already with the trademark yellow 'frowny' commonly associated with bleak house culture.

 

[catalog]

we've had that gag already but just goes to prove how good it is

 

[luka]

Yeah it's cos you make that same joke every time youve done it literally 27 times.

 

[luka]

"Bleak house" sounds like it'd be some k-punk-approved micro-genre.

He's doing it again here

 

[IdleRich]

Gotta admit I did think "not again".

 

[catalog]

lol i only heard it twice. imagine if we could coin in 20p every time he did it

 

[Mr. Tea]

lol i only heard it twice. imagine if we could coin in 20p every time he did it

I expect you'd have 60p!