After much anxiety and finally figuring out a way to get through my conference presentation without sounding like an idiot, I complained to my special lady that I wish I could be more of a conscientious academician than just a clever bastard.
"Last night you wished you could repair your own bicycle, now you want to write papers more aright!"
"I wish I could do both..."
"Some people are good at some things, some at others. You gotta choose what you want to focus on."
"I bet Howard Roark could do both, no problem..."
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so could Dirk Struan and Phaedrus. but probably not Raskolnikov. John D. Rockefeller probably could too.
do you mean the phadrus of plato or pirsig?
i don't know much about rockefeller. i don't know anything about raskolnikov. russian is one of the cultural groups i find it hard to get interested in.
Pirsig's. Crime and punishment has been the only Russian novel I've suffered through and liked. A must-read, in my opinion. Ps to that -- Watch woody allen's "Match Point" after reading it and you'll be thoroughly disappointed (in the movie). Oh, and dagny taggert probably could too.
isn't crime and punishment, like, a million pages long?
why would i do something that will thoroughly disappoint me on puspose??? i usually tell be people to watch the movie first so they can enjoy it once before it's ruined by reading the superior book.
I bet Tyler Durden could
yeah see? seems like everybody could, except me and the big lebowski.
That was very UnDude of you to say
Oh, the "big" Lebowski... my bad
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