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...?

I don't understand what on earth you are talking about

there there

Why are you hounding me Cappie?? My heart still smarts at your Thomas De Quincey barb!

I have run here to shelter from your anti-intellectualism! To be safe, at last, amongst like minds, at the Spa Angst.

(Though to be honest it's not going terrifically well at the moment)

I'm not anti-intellectualist!

I started a rereading the classics thread and no-one came!

I couldn't find it - I promise I looked! Then I forgot to ask you as have poor memory skills. Wasn't in books, no?

Ooh! A Thomas de Quincey barb, how viscious. Puts into perspective the squemishness about c**t on the other thread.

yes twas in adult fiction

Anti-intellectualist seeks partner for basic and simple fun over a cappucino.

Sorry. I have been neglecting philosophy in favour of trying to help my son master the art of French. Blind leading blind.

'A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them' (L. Wittgenstein). Does that help at all?

onebat retires, briefly, to nurse nervous exhaustion brought on by doomed attempt to swim with sharks

Swimming with sharks one bat? How so? Link?

Sharks are you two clever people
Exhausted swimmer, who would have been devoured were it not for rescue by dashing lifeguard Brad Wikipedia, is me.

Bonjour

OBM & Threadie - I would be very grateful for your brains re my dilemma of the week. Any thoughts?

OK Swedes, did it (feels nauseous with jealousy, about almost everything)

Now that was disconcerting, wasn't it?
Sorry, name-changed for the Georgette Heyer Thread.

I urge you to answer my ealrier q, darlings - have you even heard of GH?

OH gawd - and there was I getting all excited about having made a spooky new mumsnet friend.

My sister laughed and laughed (she had to hang up the phone as couldn't speak) when I told her we were thinking (well not we, me really) of downsizing to get more free time. She thinks we already have major lazyitis. Which is sort of true.

I have heard of her, but always thought she was a bit like this. I heard something about her a while ago which contradicted this image, so perhaps I should check her out.

Not swedes sister, I mean.

Well she is. And she isn't.
That is very much a hideous modern bookjacket, yes, very much so.

Would it help if I told you that both AS Byatt AND Margaret Drabble were avowed fans, as is Mister Stephen Fry?

slight tense problem there.
Which is, in fact, the story of my freakin' week.

AH OBM - Have you had a bad week? Why so?

btw - Have never read any GH. What slim volume would you recommend to commence a GH education?

no, actually totally fine in real terms, but some slight financial embarrassment on the horizon which is making me a little tense. boom-boom