which is more annoying?

[Guest]

How someone can claim Nabokov, but totally skip Hemingway, Faulkner, Twain, or a SCORE of other American authors, is certainly a testament AGAINST someone having a Masters in American Lit, not to mention the fact that Lavy asked for "quintessential", and he replied with "favourite".

I gave my answer and yet it seems its not good enough for some here. Believe what you want people.

 

[Queersetti]

I don't think we disagree. Different critics think of him AS an American author. I can show you a few collegiate sites that list him as an American author - some go on subject matter, perhaps, rather than birthplace of the author.

My point was that, regardless, Nabokov is NOT what anyone would consider the "quintessential American novelist", which was Lavy's parameter. How someone can claim Nabokov, but totally skip Hemingway, Faulkner, Twain, or a SCORE of other American authors, is certainly a testament AGAINST someone having a Masters in American Lit, not to mention the fact that Lavy asked for "quintessential", and he replied with "favourite".

American Literature depends upon a lot more than merely a novelist LIVING in America, which I believe was your point.

That's a good point. Gore Vidal, for example, is a very American novelist, but has lived in Italy for many years.


Note to Scotty: He doesn't make shampoo, you are thinking of Vidal Sassoon.

 

[Queersetti]

I gave my answer and yet it seems its not good enough for some here. Believe what you want people.

It's not that it wasn't good enough for us, lambchop, it's that it wasn't good enough to get a Master's degree.

 

[Broken*Star]

I was going to ask him what he thought of Melville, but I figured he would just say he'd never been there.

lol That's hilarious. I can't believe Scott X is still here with all his moronic glory.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

lol, hon, I have very thick skin. (insert sexual innuendo here)
CE, trying hard to be funny? Get a refund from those Joe Piscopo classes.

Sometimes I am very serious. http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons/38.gif

 

[Guest]

It's not that it wasn't good enough for us, lambchop, it's that it wasn't good enough to get a Master's degree.

and yet I have one right here, framed on my wall and working towards another one. What have you done w/ your life?
btw, that shampoo jab was nowhere near the humor I would expect from someone who claims to be more intelligent than me.

 

[Guest]

lol That's hilarious. I can't believe Scott X is still here with all his moronic glory.

oh look ,the smelly hippy chick has returned to chime in.

 

[killallhippies]

lol That's hilarious. I can't believe Scott X is still here with all his moronic glory.

it's ok. once he gets his script filled he'll be fine. we just have to wait patiently and enjoy the ride.

 

[Guest]

it's ok. once he gets his script filled he'll be fine. we just have to wait patiently and enjoy the ride.

another for the list. So many assholes, so few.....

 

[pipercatt]

Don't PM anymore, Junior.

 

[Broken*Star]

oh look ,the smelly hippy chick has returned to chime in.

Retard, do I look like a smelly hippy chick? Get your stereotypes right.

 

[Pookie]

and yet I have one right here, framed on my wall and working towards another one.

Q, he's got ya on this one. He sent me copy of his degree.


http://www.amdis.org/diploma.jpg



The fact that it's blank is beside the point though.

 

[Guest]

Retard, do I look like a smelly hippy chick? Get your stereotypes right.

no, you look like an unwashed militant lesbian to be honest.

pookie, shouldnt you be watching Spongebob?

 

[Broken*Star]

He can fill it in with whatever degree he's claiming to have this week.

 

[Pookie]

He can fill it in with whatever degree he's claiming to have this week.

True. But I'm officially calling time now on his abiltity to claim he meant to say, "Master of South American Literature."

 

[phrodeau]

and yet I have one right here, framed on my wall and working towards another one. What have you done w/ your life?
btw, that shampoo jab was nowhere near the humor I would expect from someone who claims to be more intelligent than me.

I hope this means you are still in school. Perhaps you can learn how to write English there.

 

[Guest]

I hope this means you are still in school. Perhaps you can learn how to write English there.

attempting to point out flaws which do not exist, sad.
There is nothing wrong with that statement phroboy.

 

[Pookie]

attempting to point out flaws which do not exist, sad.
There is nothing wrong with that statement phroboy.

You're sure, Mr. "Master of Whatever You'll Believe"?

 

[phrodeau]

The statement I quoted was actually one of your more cogent ones. I am able to see past a few typographical errors and lack of punctuation. However, those mistakes will effect your grade and future class placement.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Call of the Wild better than The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of lot 49, The Scarlett Letter, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby?

I don't think you have very good taste.

Hey, to be fair, my almost-7-year-old is reading Call of the Wild right now, and she loves it.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I think it maybe a compulsive thing. I've read through some of his posts and he just can't stop and can't admit he's wrong when it's been shoved under his nose. Anyone a psychologist? Help this poor boy.

You know, I read in another thread that Scotty is interested in psychology. Perhaps he should write a self-help novel?

 

[Calamity Jane]

You can hear misspelled words?

*snicker*

 

[pipercatt]

You know, I read in another thread that Scotty is interested in psychology. Perhaps he should write a self-help novel?

It would have to be fiction, and he'd need to move to to Europe, but I bet it'd be a big hit.


For bird cages.

 

[Rambling Rose]

see, this is the condescending shit that makes people want to leave Lit.

On the contrary.

If, however, by people you meant yourself, then I can only say goodbye and thank you. You've provided much needed laughter, not only for me but for so many others here.

 

[Broken*Star]

On the contrary.

If, however, by people you meant yourself, then I can only say goodbye and thank you. You've provided much needed laughter, not only for me but for so many others here.

How true, I never laughed so hard as when I read his "reasoned and well thought out" posts.