I am so easily excited

I am reading Vineland by Thomas Pynchon and it takes place in Humboldt county, or somewhere nearby. And everytime it mentions Arcata or Blue Lake or any of the small towns around here, I get excited. Wow, I need to get a life. It's a really good book though.

So does anyone else get excited by stuff like this? Or like Thomas Pynchon?

 

Similarly yes - mention anything about Vermont and I basically pee my pants.

 

hehe geeks . i never get that excited about texas. maybe i'm just not that fond of it.

 

Yeah, I don't get that excited if someone says something about just any place in California (it is just so big anyway). But I love it when someone mentions any place in Humboldt County. Having a famous author mention the tiny town of Blue Lake though, man, that was really exciting!

And yes, I am a geek!

 

Famous? Sure. Good? Nope.

 

In your opinion. Which doesn't mean much. You probably can't even comprehend his writing.

 

I've read Shakespeare and Poe and Dostoyevsky... Aligheri and Homer and Cervantes... Joyce and Dumas... but I can't get through Pynchon? Please.

 

Just because you've said that you've read them, doesn't mean that you have. So that means nothing to me.

But maybe you just don't appreciate his style. Either way, since I think you're an idiot, it doesn't really matter.

 

If I were an unread idiot I wouldn't even know of them, but, whatever.

 

Not true, since I know people that have heard of them and have not read them. Having to have read them to know their names does not make any sense. But as you said, "whatever".

 

I didn't say that meant I read them. Can you read? I said that if I were an idiot, like you suppose I am, then I wouldn't know about them. I'd have to at least be AROUND reasonably smart people to hear about them.

 

Cat - way to fuck up a pretty cool thread for those of us who aren't as WELL READ as you

 

lol, right on Ryan

If you have read those authors, they are probably turning in their graves that someone so annoying with so little to do that they have to be rude to faceless people on the internet, is reading their great works.

 

Shakespeare would commend me for being a good actor, and Cervantes would adore my sense of humor. Aligheri might be upset, maybe, but he didn't like anyone. Homer is harder to read through his work, but Poe would be upset about the way I speak to women. Dumas would think that I conduct myself unskillfully, especially in the realm of revenge. Dostoyevsky would find someplace to mention God. Joyce was half mad. He'd just run around and scream.

 

the internet, 'I'm lovin' it' - that's what Dr Seuss told me, he declined the invitation to be involved with the next Happy Meal release.

funny how things spin around in here - all my excitement and peeing my pants for not.

 

If Cervantes really does adore your sense of humor, than I am heartily ashamed of loving "Don Quioxote" so much.

 

You know Cat - great researcheres are only recognized when they make a name for THEMSELVES. Who are you trying to impress? Your insecure self? don't expect any high fives from me just because you're 15

 

Honestly, do you expect me to be famous for anything significant at my age? That simply doesn't happen often. I am not so delusional that I believe that you could glance at me impartially, but I don't mind, really. I do not desire to impress you.
The research comment strikes me as odd. Would you care to explain that? I haven't read through biographies of these men (There are none of Shakespeare, or Aligheri, or Cervantes, or Homer that could be called reliable). My conjecture is based on their work that I've read.

Anti - I am sorry that you are so impressionable that our very brief knowledge of each other's existance could turn you away from the first novel ever... and one of the best novels ever to boot.

 

Fortunately, it won't turn me away from that novel, which is brilliant, because I do not for a second believe that Cervantes would want to have anything to do with you, let alone adore your humor.

So far, I have observed that your humor is juvenile in the extreme.

I kind of wish you would just get the hell out of my thread. You are like an annoying fruit fly that just won't go away.

 

And you mean to tell me that the humor in Don Quixote was all complex stuff for the educated high society? Have you really read the book? Cervantes had no problem with juvenile humor, though he was brilliant.