This is from Bellow, Mr Sammler's Planet:
"She [his daughter] turned up in a miniskirt of billiard-table green, revealing legs sensual in outline but without inner sensuality...But who knew how many sexual difficulties and complications were associated with Shula's hair."
Is it me, or is there something slightly creepy about those lines? And inner sensuality? What on earth could that possibly mean? Of course, it goes without saying that you do like Bellow (a lot) but does it follow from that that you leave all scepticism behind? I know this has been a theme from the 1960s onward and that it has sometimes been accompanied by a somewhat hysterical denouncement of hierarchies but, once the shouting stops you do have to ask: white male dudes?
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The four richest people (in terms of assets) in Indonesia are apparently richer than the poorest 100 million according to a new Oxfam report. Nah, let's stick with the old story (all together now: I've got some wheat, you've got some potatoes. Let's trade!)
The HEC 2025 is yet another example of the pandering to the rich (who are now called "entrepreneurs"). They are to play a role in the development of 'Tier I' universities. Tech. entrepreneurs are supposed to work with faculty to develop solutions for the "overall" problems of higher education institutions. Perhaps I''m going mad or am on a different planet but it appears that no-one here sees anything wrong in that-or if they do they're too scared to say so.
And in the same way we call those who sell their wisdom to anyone who wants it sophists, just as if they were prostitutes.
I've already been told to "clam down" or "ignore it"..to "think about my family". Criticism of these clowns will only end you up in trouble. Part of me wants to press on, to burn all the bridges.
"She [his daughter] turned up in a miniskirt of billiard-table green, revealing legs sensual in outline but without inner sensuality...But who knew how many sexual difficulties and complications were associated with Shula's hair."
Is it me, or is there something slightly creepy about those lines? And inner sensuality? What on earth could that possibly mean? Of course, it goes without saying that you do like Bellow (a lot) but does it follow from that that you leave all scepticism behind? I know this has been a theme from the 1960s onward and that it has sometimes been accompanied by a somewhat hysterical denouncement of hierarchies but, once the shouting stops you do have to ask: white male dudes?
~~
The four richest people (in terms of assets) in Indonesia are apparently richer than the poorest 100 million according to a new Oxfam report. Nah, let's stick with the old story (all together now: I've got some wheat, you've got some potatoes. Let's trade!)
The HEC 2025 is yet another example of the pandering to the rich (who are now called "entrepreneurs"). They are to play a role in the development of 'Tier I' universities. Tech. entrepreneurs are supposed to work with faculty to develop solutions for the "overall" problems of higher education institutions. Perhaps I''m going mad or am on a different planet but it appears that no-one here sees anything wrong in that-or if they do they're too scared to say so.
And in the same way we call those who sell their wisdom to anyone who wants it sophists, just as if they were prostitutes.
I've already been told to "clam down" or "ignore it"..to "think about my family". Criticism of these clowns will only end you up in trouble. Part of me wants to press on, to burn all the bridges.
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