There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
It's so truthy!
A quotation I saw, source unfortunately unknown:
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Oh, I thought that it was that both are famous yet ultimately boring as hell! More Douglas Adams, lead the youth to know that alcohol is magic, and vagrancy is the height of fun!
fullyess - What Frank Alexander would have said to Alex if he had finished his spaghetti before passing out from the drugged wine.
I suspect I need to read/watch A Clockwork Orange; I had to google that reference.
I saw this a few months ago, still funny.
I wish I could quote Frank in conversation all the time, just to make strangers uncomfortable.
FOOD! ALRIGHT?
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