AAArrrggghhh!!!

Pirate latitudes...like most of his stuff: sounds like platitude.

Even dead the guy is still prolific.

Props fer the werk ethic.

Be Well.

Pirate Latitudes

Sounds like a Jimmy Buffet album

Sounds like a Jimmy Buffet album

Spud actually really likes that album/song.

Which one is that, spud? "Change in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" which has "A Pirate Looks at Forty"? That's what made me think of JB.

I heard the new novel was gonna be a first person narrative. here's how it starts....

Chapter one.

Well, here i am. it is really dark. really really really Dark dark dark.... it's quite too. dark and quite, quite and dark. and a little musty. something is crawling toward my ear.

Earwigs remind me of congressmen.......

Crichton will become the 2pac of writers if this keeps up

Earwigs remind me of congressmen--
bwahahahahahahahaha! That's the funniest shit I've read on DR in a long long time. Thanks, Lip! (But why does your Crichton rip sound like Samuel Beckett? : ) )

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

---samuel beckett----

Sadly, I am not that familiar with samuel beckett, but looking up his quotations, I have a new goal, to find out more about this person. thanks.

I'm not especially clued into Samuel Beckett, either. But I did---once---sit through his play "Waiting for Godot." So the two guys on stage and those of us in the audience waited and waited and waited. Then we waited some more. Waited a while longer after that. And you know what? That sonofabitch never turned up.

But I did---once---sit through his play "Waiting for Godot

I had an English Lit teacher in college that made us perform "Waiting for Godot". I still don't get it.

Sounds like she was letting you off easy with "Godot."

" I still don't get it. "

#12 | Posted by goatman at 2009-04-08 09:11 AM | Reply | Flag: Figures

#14: I was wondering who was going to be the first to do the predictible.

Poems about disembodied penises huh?

I enjoyed Andromeda Strain and Congo when I was a teen, and read Jurassic Park before the movie came out. They're entertaining thrillers, particularly if you like science.

Beckett is, arguably, one of the great writers of the 20th century. He was deconstruction before deconstruction was cool (before the term even existed). He could also write straight prose if he wanted. And there are great stories about his role in propagandizing during World War II (he lived in Paris, worked for Joyce). Godot is a great play, but I prefer Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is Godot meets Hamlet.

You all know this famous review of "Waiting For Godot" ?

Nothing happens.

Twice.