man without qualities. lots of kewl pseudointellect babble
so, saving $200,000 a year, you would still have, at a rate of 5 per cent
compound interest, only $14 million, less than half of the lower limits
we have taken for the great American fortunes.
But if you had bought only $9,900 worth of General Motors stock in
1913, and, rather than use your judgment, had gone into a coma—allow-
ing the proceeds to pile up in General Motors—then,in 1953, you would
have about $7 million.
And, if you had not even exercised the judgment of choosing General
Motors, but merely put $10,000 into each of the total of 480 stocks
fisted in 1913—a total investment of about $1 million—and then gone
into a coma until 1953, you would have come out worth $10 million
and have received in dividends and rights another $10 million. The in-
crease in value would have amounted to about 899 per cent, the divi-
dend return at 999 per cent. Once you have the million, advantages
would accumulate—even for a man in a coma.
thirdplace posted:every time one of you mention the elementary particles or hollerback in general i think to myself "hm i wonder if that's worth reading" then i go and check the wiki page and it just looks so fucking boring. i really don't get how people get so excited over all these ~~literary~~ books that all seem to boil down to angsty middle-aged men with stylized sex lives, just sounds like a bunch of authorial self-insertion to me
well it's been a while since i read it, but the sex scenes in elementary particles were all pretty uniformly pathetic and gross. unlike the sex stuff in possibility of an island, where it's consciously ostensibly pathetic but still sometimes material an old gallic freak could slaver over, the stuff in elementary particles (at least what i could remember) is somewhat apparently based on humiliating personal stuff all the way around- the good kind of self insertion.
there's a scene of schoolboy-on-schoolboy sexual bullying, though, if you think that might turn ya crank a lil more
c_man posted:i started reading altusser after reading foucault and holy crap this is so much easier to read
Softened up your head did it?
thirdplace posted:every time one of you mention the elementary particles or hollerback in general i think to myself "hm i wonder if that's worth reading" then i go and check the wiki page and it just looks so fucking boring. i really don't get how people get so excited over all these ~~literary~~ books that all seem to boil down to angsty middle-aged men with stylized sex lives, just sounds like a bunch of authorial self-insertion to me
why is authorial self-insertion bad?
Bablu posted:thirdplace posted:every time one of you mention the elementary particles or hollerback in general i think to myself "hm i wonder if that's worth reading" then i go and check the wiki page and it just looks so fucking boring. i really don't get how people get so excited over all these ~~literary~~ books that all seem to boil down to angsty middle-aged men with stylized sex lives, just sounds like a bunch of authorial self-insertion to me
why is authorial self-insertion bad?
its sinful
Bablu posted:thirdplace posted:every time one of you mention the elementary particles or hollerback in general i think to myself "hm i wonder if that's worth reading" then i go and check the wiki page and it just looks so fucking boring. i really don't get how people get so excited over all these ~~literary~~ books that all seem to boil down to angsty middle-aged men with stylized sex lives, just sounds like a bunch of authorial self-insertion to me
why is authorial self-insertion bad?
it's good when it's from a good author, which houllebecq is usually not. roth uses it to make things jokey or toy with his own considerable public image. houllebecq's "i'm so unhappy and so so rich and can't handle my importance" act in "the map and the territory" is not the act of self-excoriation he pretends it is, and him writing himself younger fawning sexual partners in "possibility of an island" is pathetic.
GEORGE: I'm not getting a Houllebecq.
(George grabs the book and walks a few steps over by the magazines -- Kramer follows him)
KRAMER: Why? That’ll make great dinner party conversation. We'll read it at the dinner table.
GEORGE: Oh, that's nice.
(Kramer takes a bite of the Clark Bar)
KRAMER: Come on, did you ever read one of these?
(Kramer take the Houllebecq from George and starts to leaf through it)
GEORGE: It's not real. They're all made up.
KRAMER: Ohh, it's real.
***
KRAMER: (reading from the Houllebecq) "I know this is going to sound like a crazy fantasy but every word of this story is true…" (exits to street) " A few weeks ago my girlfriend happened to mention to me how attractive she thought our new neighbor Linda was…"
GEORGE: L-Look at this?
KRAMER: Ahh.
GEORGE: Somebody double parked and blocked us in. D-DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHOSE CAR THAT IS? Maybe there's a note on it. Ohh-oh brother. No, no note. Can you believe this?
KRAMER: "…well of course I noticed it too with those ample breasts and pouty lips. I don't have to tell you she was a knock out…." (turns the page)
