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Do You Write or Think? Mr Nietzsche's Assessment of Your Dilemma.

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onebatmotherofgoditschilly · 07/01/2008 21:59

I had forgotten this:

"The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]."
?Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Ten years ago I would have turned the page with a sigh and a sneer.

Today...?

OP posts:
Threadworm · 14/01/2008 18:10

hear

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 18:30

wah-wah-waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

literary novelists no good?

Threadworm · 14/01/2008 18:33

Nah. Felf sure Dostoysevsky would be hot. But alas not.

Swedes · 14/01/2008 18:52

I have lovely shiny new haircut and low-lights which is a relief as I had post-natal hair (a look indistinguishable from a crystal meth addict, interestingly). I walked back (well flounced really) from the hairdresser feeling quite hopeful about you two having found for me a red hot philosopher.

I definitely prefer the dead philosophers.

BIL is a GP.

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 18:55

I am SOO hearing Swedes LOUD and CLEAR re AdeB!
GP? not end of world, certainly..
V glad you are shiny happy person.

RustyBear · 14/01/2008 19:17

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

RustyBear · 14/01/2008 19:18

Just thought I'd lower the tone a little further...

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 19:36

Rusty: lowering the tone "a little further would bring us to, say, kierkegaard.

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 19:36

swedes "post-natal hair" sounds.. medical.

Threadworm · 14/01/2008 21:39

I've always kind of fancied Beckett, if we are allowed playwrights. He was philosophical.

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 22:08

gah. just lost ludicrously long post which centred on my ownership of Beckett.
Dammit.

Ok, so we're broadening it to anything .. thinky?

Monkeytrousers · 14/01/2008 22:12

Fancied? As in bibically?

How about Krapp?

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 22:22

lol!

I believe Mr Bertrand Russell would disapprove of this, and almost anything else you'd care to name.

OK. New Comp. Match the philosopher to the emotion!

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 22:25

Are you absolutely positive you are telling the truth?

onebatmother · 14/01/2008 22:31

and a late-entry for the sexiest philosopher is
the rather lovely Kierkegaard

Monkeytrousers · 14/01/2008 23:57

Kierkegaard only becasue he has the flush of youth about him!

Threadworm · 15/01/2008 00:12
  1. Kierkegaard: too boyish.
  2. Bertrand Russell was reputedly a bit of a goer with the ladies I think.
  3. Will withdraw all claim on Beckett if Onebat already owns him.
  4. Am ashamed with myself for allowing slipage from the noble art of philosophy to 'anything thinky'.
  5. I still can't think of a sexy philosopher. Surely there must be one.
Quattrocento · 15/01/2008 00:15

What a fab thread. Has no one suggested Sartre yet?

I like Camus. I do really really fancy Camus. Just a bit worried that he might be a little short. Does that matter in a dead philosopher?

Threadworm · 15/01/2008 09:16

Sartre should be sexy, he really should. But I've googled him and he's not.

onebatmother · 15/01/2008 10:14

my darlings I have found a new photo of Camus, without the fag..

He is rather dishy,it's true.

Threadworm · 15/01/2008 10:29

Yes. But but about Quattro's concern about his height? The ciggies might have stunted his growth. The general rule for philosophers is that shortness is valued only in their prose, not in their stature.

Swedes · 15/01/2008 11:00

Bertrand Russell has a look which says: disappointing gift-giver.

onebatmother · 15/01/2008 11:02

why do we think he's short, though? He was a great hit with the ladies, by all accounts.

Threadworm · 15/01/2008 12:11
Swedes · 15/01/2008 14:51

I can cope with my hot philosopher looking as though he reeks of tobacco and might not have laundered his suit since 1876 but short?

Do you know about short man syndrome?