Bad Boy Chiller Crew

[shiels]

I don't trust his sincerity and he doesn't seem to be as clever as he thinks he is. .

This seemed to be his own core beliefs from reading good old neon anyway. He'd say this about himself. All my life i've been a fraud...

 

[version]

I couldn't finish Inifinite Jest like everyone else. I liked his short stories a lot though, Good Old Neon especially and the one about the cruise.

I finished it. It was far too long for what it was.

 

[Corpsey]

Only on dissensus would this thread end up with a discussion about DFW 😂

Oh, and Prynne's been mentioned too!

Time for me to connect this all to Yeats somehow. (Actually, it would be really easy.)

 

[luka]

Have we got any other authentic working class people on dissensus? Only me? The only real person?

no, there's at least 2 more. they're not class traitors like you though. they're work in iron foundries and are union organisers.

 

[craner]

Only on dissensus would this thread end up with a discussion about DFW 😂

Oh, and Prynne's been mentioned too!

Time for me to connect this all to Yeats somehow. (Actually, it would be really easy.)

The thing I like about Killah Priest is that he avoids all these categories by just writing about history and the cosmos.

 

[Corpsey]

FFS write your blog/book already

 

[luka]

FFS write your blog/book already

craner suffers from this thing we're talking about. the middle class paralysis of the will.

 

[Corpsey]

Have we got any other authentic working class people on dissensus? Only me? The only real person?

How did you get in here?

As luka and I have discussed, I've often been thought of and thought of myself as a tall, spindly, aristocratic type when in fact I'm a short, stocky, resentful plebian with ideas about my station.

 

[Corpsey]

After we had that discussion I had a much diminished conception of myself. I saw myself as the stunted packet of shoulder-chips that I really am – and it burned.

Later that day I began writing my first novel.

 

[DannyL]

no, there's at least 2 more. they're not class traitors like you though. they're work in iron foundries and are union organisers.

I could claim to be from working class stock but then I think of choice of professions and realise I (and all my colleagues) should be executed by a People's Tribunal.

 

[Corpsey]

Chapter the Fourth: Jacob Starts Work at the Travelodge Head Office, and Gets into Some Difficulties with A Vending Machine

 

[Leo]

my dad grew up dirt poor on a farm, worked his whole life as a truck driver, my mom worked in a textile factory. I mucked it all up, went to college and pursued a white collar career but at least I had working-class roots!

 

[DannyL]

Stoned to death by a crowd of resentful proles. Hung drawn and quartered outside a therapy workshop.

 

[DannyL]

my dad grew up dirt poor on a farm, worked his whole life as a truck driver, my mom worked in a textile factory. I mucked it all up, went to college and pursued a white collar career but at least I had working-class roots!

I don't think the US has the same deeply weird relationship with class that we have. Pretty much everyone literate is slightly ashamed.

That's what happens when you don't behead the aristocracy and leave them in charge.

 

[luka]

Stoned to death by a crowd of resentful proles. Hung drawn and quartered outside a therapy workshop.

are you practicing now? left the teaching behind?

 

[Leo]

I don't think the US has the same deeply weird relationship with class that we have. Pretty much everyone literate is slightly ashamed.

yeah. what you see as shame, we call Living The American Dream.

 

[DannyL]

are you practicing now? left the teaching behind?

Looking for a job right now. Had some annoying knockbacks due to lack of clinical experience.

 

[DannyL]

I only did one placement due to having a kid, and that's working against me a bit atm.

 

[DannyL]

Still practising on a voluntary basis and have a few people I'm doing other sorts of work with.

 

[luka]

something will come up Danny! you'll be the top therapist in the world by the end of the year you mark my words.