tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post1724586863831571002..comments2024-03-26T16:04:51.365+05:00Comments on austereseeker: austerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839224877080864005noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-46438815739499552312007-08-10T12:06:00.000+05:002007-08-10T12:06:00.000+05:00:) I enjoyed that, thought and went offff on a tan...:) I enjoyed that, thought and went offff on a tangent.austerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16839224877080864005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-35252980250398655732007-08-09T02:41:00.000+05:002007-08-09T02:41:00.000+05:00Sorry, I just grabbed your comment and made it a p...Sorry, I just grabbed your comment and made it a post ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-16381033968737057482007-08-08T17:25:00.000+05:002007-08-08T17:25:00.000+05:00Portia- that is a Nobel prize grade advance, not a...Portia- that is a Nobel prize grade advance, not an attribute you’d care to give to the gentlemen in question, methinks…<BR/><BR/>Mago- I am an ignoramus. No Grass, No Schmidt and I am afraid, no Proust either. But then no Saraswatichandra either, this signature work in my mother tongue, a work in five volumes that inspired many to leave family life and become ascetics. <BR/><BR/>The first volumeausterehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16839224877080864005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-4471393819606265532007-08-07T01:05:00.000+05:002007-08-07T01:05:00.000+05:00Proust's "Recherche" can be looked at very controv...Proust's "Recherche" can be looked at very controversial: A good friend of mine who really read a lot and has a taste for reading/writing is disgusted by Proust's text: Plain boooooring!<BR/>Others enjoy it deeply. Myself found it difficult to come into the text and I have to confess that I gave up. Proust and some others are on the list of books to be read once.<BR/><BR/>I think that he simply Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-86671394012590628212007-08-06T23:47:00.000+05:002007-08-06T23:47:00.000+05:00teehee, the two of them must share the same brain ...teehee, the two of them must share the same brain cell.Portiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267963630814453792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-16912058861582022842007-08-06T10:36:00.000+05:002007-08-06T10:36:00.000+05:00portia- that's not W? No, this man is otherwise a ...portia- that's not W? No, this man is otherwise a top shot hence not dense (ok stresching a point there). My personal take is that he was expecting to read something short and snappy like "5 points to make a creative fiction piece sing" - or something- and this completely floored him.<BR/><BR/>amitl- dont think I shall find trigonometry or quadratic equations FUN even if I'm marooned on an islandausterehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16839224877080864005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-70996460493313947112007-08-05T12:52:00.000+05:002007-08-05T12:52:00.000+05:00May not apply for all books but it also depends on...May not apply for all books but it also depends on the frame of mindAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-58457975807526309482007-08-05T08:02:00.000+05:002007-08-05T08:02:00.000+05:00Similar to what Portia said. I do not like to rea...Similar to what Portia said. I do not like to read when I am expected to give a report or something by a deadline.<BR/><BR/>Also, age does make a difference I think. As an example, I used to like looking at airplanes and cars for their shape and size, "the big things" about it. Now that I am older, I look for small interesting details. At what point did I pick up a fascination about gauge Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-17049692139905717012007-08-05T06:51:00.000+05:002007-08-05T06:51:00.000+05:00Hi,Austy-reason for the change of heart,to me,seem...Hi,Austy-reason for the change of heart,to me,seems to be the fact that reading at his own pace,was not a complusion for him,hence he enjoyed it...like so many things in life,when something is compulsory,we tend to find it irritating.When we do it at our convenience,it's fun.:)AmitLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01315443741450983388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29521815.post-11197746207490664122007-08-03T22:11:00.000+05:002007-08-03T22:11:00.000+05:00i always found it much easier to read with no dead...i always found it much easier to read with no deadlines attached, but that's just me.<BR/><BR/>when i read how he was frustrated that he didn't know the relevance of the piece to his class...something he said later reminded me of that ridiculous quote by donald rumsfield...<BR/><I><BR/>we know there are known knowns, there are things we know we know, we also know there are known unkonwns, ...Portiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267963630814453792noreply@blogger.com