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Queersetti

Queersetti

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If somebody told you that they had a Master's degree in Literature, then listed Descartes and Nietzche among those they considered the greatest European novelists, would you think they were, just maybe, a big fat liar?

I challenge Scott X to a writing duel
 
Maybe it was one of those "earn your online degree while you pick your nose!" type of deals.
 
Pyper said:
Maybe it was one of those "earn your online degree while you pick your nose!" type of deals.
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OK, if he says he's a Master of Snotography, I'll believe him.
 
Queersetti said:
If somebody told you that they had a Master's degree in Literature, then listed Descartes and Nietzche among those they considered the greatest European novelists, would you think they were, just maybe, a big fat liar?

I challenge Scott X to a writing duel
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I'd say "huh?" :D

Which is why I don't get into conversations about things that I have no clue.

People who try to act more intelligent than they are always end up looking more stupid than you orignally thought! ;)
 
Yes, that's precisely what I'd think.

I'm still cleaning up the coffee spew from the other thread. Masters my ass.
 
CoolidgEffect said:
Maybe he meant he played MasterMind in college during literature class.
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It makes you wish you had bought stock in Cliff's Notes, doesn't it?
 
Queersetti said:
If somebody told you that they had a Master's degree in Literature, then listed Descartes and Nietzche among those they considered the greatest European novelists, would you think they were, just maybe, a big fat liar?[/URL]
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big, fat and stupid.

This is comedy gold.
 
Queersetti said:
If somebody told you that they had a Master's degree in Literature, then listed Descartes and Nietzche among those they considered the greatest European novelists, would you think they were, just maybe, a big fat liar?
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I'd shut my mouth and quietly go away because I know that I don't know about that. :)
 
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kobalt.9 said:
Well, I consider Thus Spake Zarathustra a novel.
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I certainly don't, and even if I did, it would still be rather flimsy evidence on which to proclaim Nietzche one of the "fathers of the European novel".
 
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kobalt.9 said:
Well, I consider Thus Spake Zarathustra a novel.
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Thus Spoke only seems to be a novel because Nietzsche uses a narrative format as a rhetorical device.
 
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Olivianna said:
Thus Spoke only seems to be a novel because Nietzsche uses a narrative format as a rhetorical device.
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Stop. You're turning me on.
 
Serves him right for putting Descartes before the horse.

Though technically, he said "father of the greatest European novel", not greatest European novelist. Though that phrase doesn't make any sense either, so yeah, he's a moron.
 
Wrong Element said:
Serves him right for putting Descartes before the horse.

Though technically, he said "father of the greatest European novel", not greatest European novelist. Though that phrase doesn't make any sense either, so yeah, he's a moron.
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The question I asked him was who he regarded as the "father of the European novel" and I presented two possible candidates, Cervantes and Rabelais. No one with a Master's in Literature could have misunderstood the question so thoroughly as to start yapping about Descartes and Nietzsche.
 
Q, don't lower yourself to his level. You know you are smarter than him, he knows you are. There is no point to prove.
 
Queersetti said:
The question I asked him was who he regarded as the "father of the European novel" and I presented two possible candidates, Cervantes and Rabelais. No one with a Master's in Literature could have misunderstood the question so thoroughly as to start yapping about Descartes and Nietzsche.
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By father of the European novel, do you mean as in early modern Europe/early modern novel? Do romans de la rose not count? Is there really a particular "father," and not just a smattering of people fucking around, doing this and that? I'm totally clueless; enlighten me.
 
Kain said:
Q, don't lower yourself to his level. You know you are smarter than him, he knows you are. There is no point to prove.
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The point I meant to make, and I believe I've done so fairly convincingly, is not that Scott is not smart, but that he is a habitual liar. He has repeatedly spread lies about me and others, and so, when I caught him flatfooted in a lie, I nailed him on it.

Actually, I don't think he's unintelligent, but his thought process is hampered by ignorance and prejudice.
 
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Olivianna said:
Thus Spoke only seems to be a novel because Nietzsche uses a narrative format as a rhetorical device.
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Why should that matter? He obviously took the style into consideration, as much as the content. And isn't the novel form distinguished by style as much as anything else?

What else could Thus Spake Zarathustra be labeled? A treatise?
 
Olivianna said:
By father of the European novel, do you mean as in early modern Europe/early modern novel? Do romans de la rose not count? Is there really a particular "father," and not just a smattering of people fucking around, doing this and that? I'm totally clueless; enlighten me.
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I was always taught (although admittedly by biased sources, this was in Spain) that Cervantes was the originator of the true novel. Lots of other authors before him came close, but none ever reached the format that we today understand as a novel.
 
Are you asking him to chose between the two or were they just examples?

Personally I don't think there is a father of the European novel. I think there are several key individuals that represent different steps in it's evolution.

However, Niches and Descartes have no place in the discussion unless you are talking about influences.
 
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