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9 years ago @ The Toast - How to Tell if You're ... · 0 replies · +78 points

I think my favourite commentary on Raymond Chandler is still from Flaubert's Parrot:

"I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women’s eyes: there’s so little choice, and whatever colouring is decided upon inevitably carries banal implications. Her eyes are blue: innocence and honesty. Her eyes are black: passion and depth. Her eyes are green: wildness and jealousy. Her eyes are violet: the novel is by Raymond Chandler."

9 years ago @ The Toast - By Reader Request: Mal... · 0 replies · +3 points

I JUST finished paying mine off years later, and I didn't even have very many. It's a terrible thing to expect people to start off their life in debt, especially in such an uncertain job market.

I remember my mom telling me that she was able to make enough money at her summer job (in the 80's) to pay all of her school expenses for the year. The system just isn't designed for the current economic realities and at the same time, the biggest (and growing!) wage and employment gap is between those who have bachelor degrees and those who don't. Damned if you do and damned if you don't I guess!

9 years ago @ The Toast - By Reader Request: Mal... · 2 replies · +3 points

Hmm, sounds terrible. (I'm not American, so I'm not 100% on your system. I will maintain that MY government doesn't need interest on student loans. Even though they do it anyway.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - By Reader Request: Mal... · 4 replies · +4 points

I always thought they should make student loans some of the easiest to pay back, not the hardest. Like, why does the government need to make interest? Just let people get some education!

9 years ago @ The Toast - By Reader Request: Mal... · 6 replies · +5 points

No! Really? I am so sorry, that is horrible.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The MLA Top 100: Jocks... · 0 replies · +4 points

And Northanger Abbey is the most nerdy of all time.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The MLA Top 100: Jocks... · 0 replies · +2 points

Scoop is amazing!

(Also, can we just talk for a moment about how strange Vile Bodies is? I don't know if I've ever seen a book take quite so complete a turn right at the end. I know there's a lot about Waugh's personal life and convictions involved in that, but knowing that doesn't stop reading it from being a surreal and unsettling experience.)

10 years ago @ The Toast - The MLA Top 100: Jocks... · 1 reply · +3 points

I feel like it's the love that makes it nerdy? Like if you really love all the references you are throwing in (think Sayers or even Willis) then that will shine through and make it seem slightly less like an endurance course.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The MLA Top 100: Jocks... · 0 replies · +3 points

Fair enough.

I guess I don't mean literally jockish- in that they're not competing for physical dominance- but for some reason my head is convinced there is just something so jockish about status and that type of performance (both publicly and privately). I guess it depends how you are defining jock vs nerd in this case.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The MLA Top 100: Jocks... · 0 replies · +9 points

Both Down and out in Paris and London, and Road to Wigan Pier are totally jock books.

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