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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Maybe you should read Lolita.
I love that book endlessly.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:09, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
Already seen the Jeremy Irons film on TV.
It's a great adaptation but I'm hardly going to approve of its content.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:11, Reply)
What makes you think that you have to 'approve of the content'?
You peculiar boy.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:14, Reply)
because he isn't real! it's like the fucking candyman!

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:15, Reply)
What I mean is
Just because I have seen the film doesn't mean I'd like to see it reenacted in reality.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:17, Reply)
Of course not. You peculiar boy.
I wouldn't advise reading the novel yet. It will be a bit advanced for you.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:18, Reply)
I have read one or two philosophy, biographical and economics books, they weren't to advanced for me...
So I'll ask how much harder can a novel be?
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:21, Reply)
I should point out I had the reading age of an 18 year old aged 6.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:23, Reply)
You are talking through your arse there son.
And there is a vast, vast gulf between reading mass market non-fiction and serious, intelligent literary fiction and actually understanding what the text is doing.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:25, Reply)
A reading age has nothing to do with mental and emotional maturity
Reading is a skill of memory and decoding.
Just look at Daily Mail readers.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)
What I said and she backed up.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)
I'm like an Exam passing machine.
I'd admit Memory and decoding, thats always been my forte tbh.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:29, Reply)
Which has nothing whatsoever to do with understanding and true learning.
So you could in fact be as thick as pigshit.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)
He is thick as pigshit.
He likes the Tories.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:31, Reply)
He's certainly got the politics the wrong way round
I think even Margaret Thatcher said that everyone should be a Socialist when they're young.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:36, Reply)
Margaret Thatcher said a lot of things.
And she was a frightful bitch.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)
She was, but on this one I think she was right.
If you're not a socialist when you're young you truly have no soul.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:39, Reply)
Wasn't the second part "If you've not become right wing by the time you're 40 you have no brain"?

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:40, Reply)
I believe it was
So you're soulless then?
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:43, Reply)
Nah, I just decided to just skip the part where you make the mistake.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:44, Reply)
shame your parents weren't so considerate.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:45, Reply)
Who said anything about me making a mistake?
Presumptuous of you.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:48, Reply)
"You", meaning in this context "people in general"

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:49, Reply)
Well it might have been more correct then to have said that to start with
Don't you think?
Particularly as you began with 'I' and then mentioned 'you' in reply to me.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:52, Reply)
Or you have shit wages and lots of bills to pay.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:44, Reply)
Leraning to me is memorizing what somebody has told you or what you have experienced and applying it to other situations.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:31, Reply)
Yes, applying it to other situations is the key there
You said that memory and decoding were your forte - that's not applying.
(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:33, Reply)
He strikes me as a natural filing clerk.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:36, Reply)
He strikes me as a natural frightful berk.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 23:36, Reply)

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