Posted by Destroyo on November 14, 2003, at 21:29:01
In reply to So whats everyone reading???, posted by NikkiT2 on August 4, 2003, at 11:16:40
Mr. Obnoxious Maximus Augustus here (a newbie neophyte of a tyro) really hasn't gone back and read all these old posts, I figure half of them will be outdated before I can really respond to them. Anyhooooo....I never really met any author I couldn't handle, as far as complexity, till this guy "Jorge Luis Borges". I checked out a book of short stories at the library, and it had one wonderful story (the first one) about latin American knife-fighters. That I understood. The rest? Hopeless. The stories, I just couldn't figure out what was going on. It was unclear. I read for entertainment, pure and simple. If my failure to comprehend Borges means I shall be stripped of my B.A. in marijuana smoking and beer drinking at The University of Florida (1982), then so be it. I suppose I shall be cast back into kindergarten. I'm going to look awfully funny in those teensy little desks. On the other hand, I can now rather easily, since I'll outweigh them by a factor of four, deal with those nasty li'l bullies who terrorized poor li'll four-eyed Destroyo (now equipped with 30-day wear contact lenses :-)
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