The Old Hack notes: Had a few hours to spare last week and re-read War and Peace and Ulysses (for the third time). Also Aeropagitica and Remembrance Of Things Past. God, who doesn’t love the classics? Apparently, most of us lying literary sacks of shit: “Lying and cheating are not normally admirable traits, but I'd make an exception in the case of literature. A survey of 1,342 people…suggested that two thirds of us lie in saying that we've read books that we haven't… Chief among the books we never read but pretend to have read, are Orwell's 1984, War and Peace, the Bible, Joyce's Ulysses and Madame Bovary”
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Can't Get Enough
The Old Hack notes: Had a few hours to spare last week and re-read War and Peace and Ulysses (for the third time). Also Aeropagitica and Remembrance Of Things Past. God, who doesn’t love the classics? Apparently, most of us lying literary sacks of shit: “Lying and cheating are not normally admirable traits, but I'd make an exception in the case of literature. A survey of 1,342 people…suggested that two thirds of us lie in saying that we've read books that we haven't… Chief among the books we never read but pretend to have read, are Orwell's 1984, War and Peace, the Bible, Joyce's Ulysses and Madame Bovary”
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I am a young heterosexual woman and am astonished that you still stoop to such low sexist levels on your ridiculous blog. Why did you feel it necessary to include a picture of a woman reading a book with her panties exposed to illustrate an otherwise edifying entry on literary lying? Are you nothing more than sexist pigs?
--Young Hetereosexual Woman
"Are you nothing more than sexist pigs?"
Nothing more. Please send us a topless pic of yourself reading a thick book.
--The Editors
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