Milkman Dan: Not that much hangs on it, but you might want to give "Foucault's Pendulum" another chance. The complaints against the book you have stated are actually those elements of occult culture Eco is concerned to mimic and mock. It is precisely the self-importance of occultists and the search for ever more obscure and esoteric knowledge that motivates much of Eco's irony and humor. You may have misinterpreted Eco's tone and taken for serious what was meant to be humorous. In other words, Eco would most likely agree with your complaints which suggests that he is up to something more.

Toppings? Lets see....

Pineapples, onions..., and, oh just throw on what ever you have lying around.

/me wants a satanic synthesizer.
/me realizes he has a copy Foucault's Pendulum and starts reading it.
How's that for bad grammar?
WORD TO YOUR MOTHER

Libertine thinks talking with bad grammar makes you sound like a black person LOL

Be careful what you wish for, Dan.

"I prefer to take it dry, Ibis. It's the preposterous storytelling of Foucault's Pendulum I can't tolerate. I do own a copy of it, however, used to cite this example of aforementioned preposterosity:"

Where I live "taking it dry" often means forgetting to polish the turdspear. But hey, if that's the way you roll....

>giggle

Also Riley I have always said one of the major drawbacks of the internet is that everyone has to be online at the same time.

i am NOT Jacopo Belpo.

Hey Dan Milk Man

I guess for me the book had a lot of pull because the characters reminded me of various versions of myself who had gone off the deep end. A cautionary tale, as it were...

As a side note: I hear Persians make excellent Satantologists. For the internet tells me so.

I'm a real Aryan though. And I'm only ever a Satanist to get Libertines panties in a bunch.

Thanks for the lulz Ian. We white people are always cranky because walking around on cloven hoofs hurts like !#$*&$.

Yep, real...you lot.

chaplain, real

Riley, when will you realize that white people are the one and true devil. This is why Chaoflux is a sub par Satanist. It's not his fault really... it's genetics.

Sheesh, you lot. Keep it real.

"Look I don't know how to say this without hurting you deeply but you happen to be white."
-Nick Sobotka, The Wire.

Hey Dars the idea is to reply to the comment as soon as possible not hours after it's been or maybe it took you that long type that reply which you seem to think is oh so witty.

(Wow! I hope you're just trying to sound cool and trendy, and aren't actually that incredibly stupid@! Cause that is a lot of stupid!@!)

This coming from the man who says whigger bullshit like 'you a first class retard', oh the irony.

Milkman Dan: You a first class retard, I had no idea!

Hi stupid!

You just compared Eco to Dan Brown! That's the stupidest *%$%ing correlation I've ever seen!

Wow! I hope you're just trying to sound cool and trendy, and aren't actually that incredibly stupid@! Cause that is a lot of stupid!@!

Just talking shit to stir the cauldron Gtree... Ya mutha ain't shit. Who gives a fuck what I say? It's your perceptive reality after all. I'm just miterating upon it.

I prefer to take it dry, Ibis. It's the preposterous storytelling of Foucault's Pendulum I can't tolerate. I do own a copy of it, however, used to cite this example of aforementioned preposterosity:

"As he spoke of darkness, he seemed to give off light. I asked him why his suspicions were aroused.
'Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps the only man bold enough to say it in print was Saint-Yves d'Alveyrdre. You know him?'"

... No, dick, you have proved your knowledge base much more esoteric than mine, and thus have bested me in THEE SUUPER EPIC OKKULT-OFF ...

In retrospect, I never gave that Eco fella a fighting chance. Pulled a book from the shelf, loathed it, and gave the fuck up. Didn't realize he could be any more SRSB than the trumped up sense of self importance found in the tome I accidentally inherited.

And now I'm off to toss cameras.

From Unrelated Tho...

new tool - will review after I've had it a while - cheap too

Mirroribis:

__Travels In Hyperreality_ is Awesome. My favorite essay is the one on "Horror Vaccui"

So good.

I know
That websites don't kill
But sometimes they will
Sometimes they will break hearts

I know
That I'm an adult
But Squink it's your fault
You created a monster

Kant and the Platypus.
Umberto Eco.

Squink, for the record, I want to thank you for bringing on a case of the munchies.

RON PAUL /b/

The end is nigh. The memes, which we have gotten familiar with and memorized have build up into independent sentient thought forms. These thought forms came to me in a vision the internet is coming to an end. In this vision I watched as anonymous destroyed the church of scientology, but paid a heavy price. The chans were gone, including this website. That caused a catastrophe of epic proportion. All the bile, faggotry and AIDS contained in irreality have spread all over the internet into mainstream site, like facebook and even forums of some official corporate and government sites. This even caused legit businesses to refuse to touch the internet, resulting in drop of subscriber numbers and eventual cessation of service providers.

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Camera Tossing

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EVERYONE IS BEING DODGY!!!!!!!!
IT'S A DISEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!

*turns green and starts selling crack*

You know what? It's probably best not to ask.

Mirroribis: "Kant and the Platypus" and "The Search for the Perfect Language" are rather good too. I really enjoyed "Travels in Hyperreality" especially the essay on professional sports and sports fandom although it has been a while since I read it.

Right - also for the record, the Instant Coffee is only for those 3am moments when I'm simply too tired to make real coffee. It's the Phoenix Down of my food supplies.

Topping up my food supplies. Teck requested to see.

Organic Strawberries 1 lb
Bananas 2.170kg
Aged Cheddar Cheese
EFruiti Fruit Gummies
Blueberry Rice Scone
Brown Rice Cheddar Herb Bun
Rice Cranberry Muffins (x3)
Chocolate covered Peanuts
Instant Coffee (for those 3am moments)
Blue Diamond Almond Milk 946ml (x2)
Old Fashioned Ham
Honey Ham
Maple Roast Ham
Blue Sky Cola (x3)
Ronny's Humous Dip
Olympic Org Strawberry Yogurt
Vanilla Soy Milk 1.8l
Chocolate Rice Brownies

Milkman Dan what in sam hell are you talking about !

I'm a big fan of Umberto Eco.
Hey Dan:
Try reading "Travels In Hyperreality", or "A Theory of Semiotics".
Some people can't take it dry, though...
you might want to milk your limits.
(They appear to be engorged.)

Without irr, I had all kinds of extra internet time. I discovered pmog.com Now I don't know if I will ever have any extra time at all.

this popping in and out creates so much great noise in the data shadow. digging it immensely

Yaarr where have i been i have missed so much what happened?

*schluuurp*

Lick,lick,lick

RE: various anomalies in quasi-reverse chronological orderification.

Foucault's Pendulum SUCKS. Umberto Eco = 80s Dan Brown. Skip the hell out of that one.

Bruce Lee's writings on the other hand...

Glad to see things coming along Señor Squink. I anticipate much WIN.

Wonderful vid, Ms. Pauline. I saw that film in the cinema completely by myself and will never forget the experience.

...

In other news, I'm somewhat of a college graduate. What a bizarre ritual that was...

So in other words, Canada is mostly still ruled by the British Empire ;)

"In 1982 Britain passed the Canada Act, repatriating the Constitution of Canada. Previously, the Constitution has existed only as an act passed by the British parliament, and was not even physically located in Canada. "

Canada is British, FWIW.

Move to PDX where it is less British.

GwiddernTree: No, it is not full of those.

It is full of them.


chaplain, thee

Best wishes to you Mesila. You'll get through your stress and your challenges and come out the other side better for it. I'll be thinking about you.

Oh finally I remembered my password. Hello guys. Dropped 'out of site' because Deek is back from England, longstory short is that his mom is now going to sell the house after all and I'm back to the hideous stress of having to move - and this time I have to do so by the first of July. Probably won't be spending too much time anywhere but on Craigslist and rental sites. The stress is eating me alive.

Here's an amusing link for y'all: http://holyspiritvictorious4ever.blogspot.com/

It's a hoot.

yes and this is a site full of diabolicals Coy-Oat

:)

So Umberto Eco was asked in an interview how he felt about the general idea of his "Foucault's Pendulum" being plagiarized by Dan Brown for "The Da Vinci Code". He said that he was really rather amused by the whole thing mainly because Dan Brown can't plagiarize "Foucault's Pendulum" insofar as he is really more of a character within it. A "true believer" Eco called him with full irony. Just an amusing tid-bit.

+1 to Siv for correct "syphilis" answer

You die of Syphilis if you use Lycos to find the answer to a riddle or trivia question.

Yeah read Foucault's Pendulum.

in fact.

Every irreality drone is required to read Foucault's pendulum if they haven't already.

No excuses

lol I don't even know what lycos is... don't forget I am pretty much computer illiterate.

I am not very fond of Gravity's Rainbow. The Crying of Lot 42 was good but his longer books bore me. Have you read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco? It is very good.

I read gravity's rainbow at the approximate speed of one page per week

you don't get a fatal disease for using lycos