K-Punk

[luka]

whats i like about that quote is that it is about how it might be possible to read. how you might trick yourself into reading. i talked about it in the Borges thread too.

 

[luka]

nobody wants to read its so boring, but its good for us, so how to do it. lets say for a minimum of 2 hours every day. that's probably what you want to aim for as bare minimum.

 

[thirdform]

nobody wants to read its so boring, but its good for us, so how to do it. lets say for a minimum of 2 hours every day. that's probably what you want to aim for as bare minimum.

I don't think reading is boring

 

[thirdform]

like if i have to read nabokov (one of the most pretentious windbags in the world) or listen to Dido, I'll still choose Nabokov.

 

[luka]

you dont find agitprop boring but if i was to assign you a reading list you would struggle with it

 

[woops]

I don't think reading is boring

i don't think there's anything wrong with that picture you just posted

edit oh it was a tune i take it all back total shit

 

[luka]

just as if you forced me to read about industrial policy in early 20th century Poland i'd find it hard going.

 

[thirdform]

you dont find agitprop boring but if i was to assign you a reading list you would struggle with it

nonsense. I could do it in a week if you paid me £1000

 

[thirdform]

this is what I mean by mechanised filth. My libidinal desires are based on the commodity-form.

 

[luka]

nonsense. I could do it in a week if you paid me £1000

i dont even have £10 in my acount this is not feasible.

 

[woops]

i'm getting a bit tired of this "reading is boring, never read, i never read" it's funny once or twice but you seem to have confused it with an actual stance @luka. agitprop probably is well boring but there are agitators who would eat it up without the £1000. no one here dislikes reading on principle. even stan was into listening to lectures which is a passive form of reading. but well done it's funny to pretend that we are all illiterate sons of the local pub.

 

[woops]

i myself have read over 20 books

 

[luka]

i know for a fact i read a lot more than you and i also know i read almost nothing

 

[woops]

including one by nabokov.

part of the reason you're not reading is 'cos you're spending so much time reading on the internet.

it's be more of a challenge to read nothing for a week

 

[thirdform]

i dont even have £10 in my acount this is not feasible.

@chava is right that Abba is the greatest European soul band of all time.

What You are about to witness is soul's fall from grace in realtime.

 

[thirdform]

i know for a fact i read a lot more than you and i also know i read almost nothing

I know. we used to call them trainset madam agatha christie's with my dad. I'm not into reading a lot but reading hardcore.

 

[luka]

i myself have read over 20 books

and I know what those 20 books are. You are shamefully under-read, disgracefully so. You know this as well as I do. I am the same.

 

[woops]

how is this to be solved by trying to catch up with @jenks or by making a "quixotic" attempt at the western canon like @craner at which point i'd have @thirdform telling me i should be reading persian mystics instead or by trying to guess what @luka considers non-boring or by persisting with my lifelong strategy of reading whatever seems interesting / useful / to hand?

 

[luka]

this is what i was asking by posting the Coleridge quote

 

[luka]

Stan was trying to teach us how to use semen retention as a launchpad into learning