Hey, I need something to read when I'm on the can.
Hey, I need something to read when I'm on the can.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
brilliant.
On the Path to the Streets of Gold: a Suebi AAR
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Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul.
The people that gave the book such good reviews on Amazon surely share the stellar mental abilities of the author. They seem to high for me though.
Really, in what for a country do you live where people can actually earn money with writing such a crap that somebody whose mother tongue is not English (me) could do much better? Don't they even employ people who control the authors' grammar and spelling? Really, the decline of American language and culture is already at hand. Frankly, it's already long delayed.
The reviewers on Amazon must be being sarcastic. Hell, I think the author of the book might even be sarcastic.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
- Proud Horseman of the Presence
Aaahh...now AT FIRST GLANCE it may appear that US culture is declining. But..not so if one takes a more holistic view, with an application of Deep Text and intertextuality. Then the meaning of this important new book becomes clear.
The Moon is a Sacred entity to Americans. As America leaves the Bush-industrial-military era, and transponds itself from a masculine object - 'Mars' - to a new Obama-change-green feminine era - 'Venus' -, so it passes the celestial in-between stage 'Moon'. The Moon in contemporary American culture then is an object of sublogical vision with postmodern implications for the self-identification of the American subject, or 'Ego' in a post-Freudian meaning.
For example, please note the intertextual reference between the 'Moon' in the ground-breaking book that's the subject of this thread, and the 'Moon' in the apparal below:
The-Mountain-Three-Wolf-T-Shirt apparel
Study the shirt and read the review by B. Govern "Bee-Dot-Govern" (New Jersey, USA), and the Deep Superculture of the United States reveals itself.![]()
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Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul.
I know. It's spreading. See? Far from declining, Americans are transforming themselves into 'Moon People' - as the title of this important new book shows. I see this book as a 'Brave New World' for the 21st century. The author is the new Aldeous Huxley, but reversed. This time, not a dismal and bleak new world, but a glorious future behind the new frontier - the moon - awaits America.
The book is about Americans boldly entering a new phase in their existence. Seeking new frontiers. After the West was won, the pivotal analogy for America's frontiers has been, since the day of Kennedy (the white Obama), the race to the moon.
What is an American? It is a person who seeks out new frontiers, carves himself an existence out of the wilderness. This frontier is both external, in the physical world, and internal.
Now, whereas moon travel in the 20th century was the sole privelidge for only a handful of Americans, in the 21st century, as this book describes, all Americans will be able to seek their inner frontier on the moon. And become 'Moon People'. It is the triumph of democracy, the fullfilment of the American Dream. It is the promise of the Obama era.
This book then, is to literature what Obama is to politics. If anybody can be president, then anybody can be a novelist.
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Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul.
That sounds like a literal translation from german to english and is about as wrong as some things in the book, a more correct way to say this would be "in what kind of a country" if I'm not mistaken; but I fear the constant reading of english forums and chats hasn't done my english grammar much good(another expression that sounds a like slang to me), one more reason to complain often.
Or maybe I should just start reading decent english books like the one above.![]()
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"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
To be fair you can't blame the editors... on the link to the biography if you go to the home page it says it is a site run by authors for authors.![]()
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
If anyone wants a real laugh, work your way through the Amazon reader comments. Hilarious stuff![]()
Last edited by CountArach; 07-02-2009 at 14:55.
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
Be intent on loyalty
While others aspire to perform meritorious services
Concentrate on purity of intent
While those around you are beset by egoism
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