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

[onebatmotherofgoditschilly]

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...?

Phew. was bracing myself for 5'4" of choking on my tea.

What is modernist? Discuss

but didn't you secretly love the idea of infantilized dp swinging leeetle legs? Talking in helium voice? Doing colouring-in?

is Modern...Ist.

look at the post-modern thread btw you may have something to add. OR - you may find you cannot quite be arsed.

I had more imagined it swinging little legs, doing colouring-in, whilst smoking a giant cigar and shouting: "Onebat, more fucking Ribena" in a voice not unlike Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday.

Oh you do make me laugh, Swedes..

But Nope. 6'2" was true but so was helium-voice.

Lol at you two.

must work today.

OBM Thanks for sharing re DP's helium voice problem. Low testosterone isn't the end of the world (perhaps he proved that to you by helping you breastfeed?). He certainly looks like he has a lovely personality though?

breastfeeding helium man!

have done bugger bugger allagain today.

Threadie, Swedes do you like Georgette Heyer?

My dh is neither short nor tall, and he doesn't have a funny voice. But he is very hairy all over. Can we laugh at him for that?

I think so, don't you?

Threadworm I would never be so cruel to laugh at someone for being hairy but tell him he is very silly not to have gone to the dentist to get his gnashers looked at these past 20 years. Is his breath really honky or OK if you wear your Sars mask indoors?

Very relieved to hear no shorty - I was a little worried that you had left the thread in order to give growth hormones a whirl.

DP is 6' 2" in his Shawaddywaddy outfit.

Did I say Showaddywaddywaddy, silly me, I meant Slade

DP has found that the exceptionally high boots look retro-chic with the short-sleeved shirt with epaulettes. This look is finished off with the post-modernist, post white-cube-gallery, addition of a cycle clip. (This identifies him as an admirer of Jeremy Deller's work.) It's a look many have copied (Sadie Frost flirted with the look for a short while but then drifted off in search of a younger look) but few can truly carry it off.

Well I did say DH wasn't short, but you both seem for have >6 footers. So, actually, he is short by local standards. And hairy by any standards.

The linked pic is quite a good resemblance, but alas! Choobacca(sp) can drive spaceships but DH cannot even drive a car.

Threadworm - I'm interested in the not driving a car thing.
For green reasons?
In the interests of the road-using public?
Does he have a chauffeur and therefore no need to learn to drive?
Is he 17 and eagerly awaiting a provisional lic?

Interestingly, the cleverest man I have ever met had no clear idea why he never learnt (or wanted to learn) to drive (he still can't drive at 47 (ish) afaik) - he just felt it wasn't for him apparently. He was breathtakingly brilliant at completing Araucaria crosswords which was completely maddening (I was in 20s and fiercely competitive at the time).

Well, he's an academic and they tend to lead rather sheltered lives. He's been a rather single-minded swotty type all his life and never ventured into anything practical. And then I was sucker enough to learn to drive before him so he had little incentive. Grr.

The road-using public is definitely safer this way. He has little sense of left and right, and on our driving along a humble B-road one day many years ago, he vaguely said 'Is this a motorway. Also, he is Mr Magoo.

Although he is not 17 I have to say that he is usually eagerly awaiting a provisional lic. Often in vain.

I managed to successfully avoid Satre and most of the French lot all the way through a humanites degree. I quite liked Walter Benjamin though, I thibk..was reading Gunter Grass at the same time

in partic epaulettes/cuban heel/cycle clip combo (Swedes tell me this is only on dress-dwon Fridays?), and magoo on c-roads.

Threadie, do you think his hairyness has been a factor in dp's driving refusal? overendowed in one area of (constructed, of course) masculinity so must underachieve in another?

I can say this bcs dp 49 (, on so many levels) only learnt to drive 4 years ago, and I am learning now. Like retard family.

MT Aaach! Gunter.
His name alone makes me feel kind of ... squirmy.

Suspect that he and Frau Koch have an arrangement. Two very small holes drilled in the eyes of the portrait of Mister Koch which hangs on the wall of the depilation suite at the Spa Angst?

Threadie - V excited about your academic - in what field of impracticality does he toil? I have a very serious question - does he have an academic haircut? If yes, is it very high maintenence? What styling products should I look out for - I am thinking TiGi Bed Hair but I may be way off?

caused, in particular, by subject's clear assumption that he has excellent hair.

and Threadie - is the elbow patch now standard on corduroy jackets, or still an optional upgrade?

Threadie, I have impractical dp too.