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22 Aug 2016, 5:26 pm

Monster.

Friedrich Hoffmann, after two hundred plus years, is able to tell his side of the story. A German chemist (pharmacist), who had relocated to Switzerland, is wrongfully executed by being broken on the wheel for the murder of his fiance. When he awakes, he finds himself in a huge, monstrous body strapped down to an operating table, with a somehow still living decapitated woman's head as his only company. Hoffmann soon learns they are the fiendish experiments of the real monster of the story, Victor Frankenstein.
So far entertaining, especially since Dr Frankenstein has invited the Marquis De Sade to view his experiments.


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24 Aug 2016, 6:54 am

struggling through two online, The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek) & The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety



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04 Sep 2016, 4:10 am

Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie.


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04 Sep 2016, 5:34 am

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struggling through two online, The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek) & The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety


Do you like Zizek? I have one book, but can't stand it.



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06 Sep 2016, 2:16 am

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06 Sep 2016, 2:38 am

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07 Sep 2016, 1:04 am

HighLlama wrote:
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struggling through two online, The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek) & The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety


Do you like Zizek? I have one book, but can't stand it.


that right, it's a disappointing, boring, dated, lacanian-puffed up something
http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan365/fil ... eology.pdf

the "anxiety code" spiralled into micro-observations and never got round to make the big picture of that to society as a whole, and *personally* i range valueing anxiety as a negatif aspect of "feminisation", anxious being put on a pedestal, define it as feminin and from there make feminin defined by anxiety. (same as it ever was, the trick of playing the same tricks again)



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07 Sep 2016, 1:08 am

Hard Times - Charles Dickens



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07 Sep 2016, 5:15 am

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Hard Times - Charles Dickens


The part at the beginning about the dog being beaten always makes me really sad. Great book.



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07 Sep 2016, 5:21 am

traven wrote:
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struggling through two online, The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek) & The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety


Do you like Zizek? I have one book, but can't stand it.


that right, it's a disappointing, boring, dated, lacanian-puffed up something
http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan365/fil ... eology.pdf

the "anxiety code" spiraled into micro-observations and never got round to make the big picture of that to society as a whole, and *personally* i range valueing anxiety as a negatif aspect of "feminisation", anxious being put on a pedestal, define it as feminin and from there make feminin defined by anxiety. (same as it ever was, the trick of playing the same tricks again)


Hahaha! I love your description of the book. In regard to anxiety code, do you mean anxiety is part of a code to control women by making them anxious over pressure to be feminine?

Yes, many do play the same tricks again, if you mean Zizek is just rewording earlier writers.



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07 Sep 2016, 6:33 am

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In regard to anxiety code, do you mean anxiety is part of a code to control women by making them anxious over pressure to be feminine?

Yes, many do play the same tricks again, if you mean Zizek is just rewording earlier writers.


i didn't mix zizek into the anxiety code,
just taking the mantra that society gets feminised in (spurious) correlation with generalised anxiety 8O
(none of these claims can be verified)



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09 Sep 2016, 1:21 am

"Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" by Chrissie Hynde


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09 Sep 2016, 3:44 am

jurgen ziewe- "vistas of infinity- how to enjoy life when you are dead."



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11 Sep 2016, 6:00 pm

Badasses Of The Old West.

Collection of biographies of both well known and hardly known robbers and killers who put the wild in the wild west. These were truly dangerous men who lived on the edge, from the mid 19th century, to the early 20th century.


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15 Sep 2016, 3:59 pm

Aspergirls by Rudy Simone.



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15 Sep 2016, 4:01 pm

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