I am searching for an article or I don't know a chapter of a book by Malcolm Bradbury on Thomas Pynchon novel V. with a title like "absent Auther". can anybody help me to find the name of this text?
Recently I've heard many nice things about Malcolm Bradbury. I'm looking through his books on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54552.Malcolm_Bradbury and don't know what to choose. Are there any fans of him here? Would be happy to learn about him more and start reading :)
I'm hoping some kind person would be willing to use this photo and throw this quote in large readable print at the bottom "Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship." I was thinking a standard font and probably white lettering but you're the artist, not I. Thanks!
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2021 was by far the best reading year I've ever had, going from a previous high of 30 books read to 100+ this year. The primary catalyst of this was discovering that it was feasible for me to read most of my SFF books in audiobook form, although the pandemic and life situation definitely played roles. This is my first year doing Bingo. Interestingly, the books I picked up specifically to fill a Bingo square all ended up being 3.5 stars or fewer, while the ones I had already on my TBR ended up being 4+. I'll need to re-examine my selection process a bit for next year's Bingo, as I enjoyed finishing my card far more than actually reading the books I've discovered through it. Accomplishment itself has merit and I have diversified my reading more, but hopefully I can find more books that I really enjoy.
The biggest series discoveries for me from the books below were Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer (I loved books 1-2 but was disappointed by 3-4), The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells and The Fire Sacraments by Robert V.S. Redick. I also finally managed to finish Malazan after three years (I disliked Dust of Dreams and loved The Crippled God).
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Five Short Stories - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (HM) 3★ >This sci-fi collection had a few strong stories, but the rest struggled to stand out. Bradbury’s writing was in a voice distinct to his era, making it feel like Mad Men on Mars. I felt similarly with Asimov’s work, neither of which have quite worked for me.
Set in Asia - The Hand of the Sun King by J.T. Greathouse 4.5★ >A young man gifted with powers from both sides of his heritage attempts to find his own path in a world he doesn’t really understand; one where he may be used by higher powers. Reminded me a bit of Dune in terms of the structure, especially in how victories could be tragedies and vice versa. One of the strongest debuts that I’ve read of late.
A-Z Genre Guide - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (HM) 4.5★ >Both of Chiang’s short story collections have stuck with me and left me thinking afterwards more than any other SFF literature. They’re all really great stories.
Found Family - [*The House in the Ce
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
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James Joyce: Finnegans Wake (1939)
Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
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Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
C. P. Snow: Strangers and Brothers (1940)
Rex Warner: The Aerodrome (1941)
Joyce Cary: The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge (1944)
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)
Saul Bellow: The Victim (1947)
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano (1947)
Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter (1948)
Aldous Huxley: Ape and Essence (1948)
Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Nevil Shute: No Highway (1948)
Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day (1949)
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
William Sansom: The Body (1949)
William Cooper: Scenes from Provincial Life (1950)
Budd Schulberg: The Disenchanted (1950)
Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time (to 1975) (1951)
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Herman Wouk: The Caine Mutiny (1951)
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Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
I'm going to try to get these up a day or so in advance to give everyone time to catch up! What follows is an assignment of what to read, a description of how the date was arrived at, the narrative and historical context of the events in the selection, a few scholarly readings (and my own interpretations) of key points in the reading, discussion questions based on those readings, and a bibliography. Feel free to read all or none of what follows, and to give your opinions on the discussion questions or on literally anything else in the reading so far. Also, regarding spoilers--should we have some kind of a warning system in place?
Read: Vol. 1, ch. 1; pp. 1-7 ("Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich" through to "Depend upon it, a man of six or seven-and-twenty can take care of himself").
Context
Miss Taylor gets married to Mr. Weston to-day!
The choice of date here is somewhat arbitrary. Jo Modert places this occurrence in “late September” (p. 57), probably because Emma laments that "many a long October and November evening must be struggled through at Hartfield, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband" (Austen vol. 1, ch. 1; p. 2). Monday was statistically the most popular day on which to get married in England in 1813 (Schofield, p. 67), though the majority of the population would have been beneath Mr. and Mrs. Weston in rank and fortune, so those statistics may not be representative of them in particular.
Weddings in the early 19th century were much smaller affairs than they are in Western culture now; relatives weren't likely to travel far for them, it was uncommon to buy a new dress for the day (rather than simply wearing one's Sunday best), and even if one did, it was not be likely to be white (expensive and hard to clean), and one would certainly wear it again. The bride and bridegroom would marry sometime in the morning, between 8 A.M. and noon, before attending their wedding breakfast. The breakfast was presumably hosted at Hartfield, given the wording of "The wedding over and the bride-people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together" (Austen vol. 1, ch. 1; p. 1). Recognising this detail--never explicitly stated but tucked away in a subordinate clause--allows us to realise how stark Emma’s sense of impending isolation must be.
The afternoon or evening after the wedding, Emma and Mr. Woodhouse dine, after which Emma reflects on the loss of Miss Taylor as Mr. Weston naps. Later that night, Mr
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A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.
I won't be doing that today!
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
There hasn't been a post all year!
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You take away their little brooms
Or would that be too forward thinking?
