Mark Darling

Screen printer, book reader, movie watcher, Anthroposophist, not necessarily in that order. Trying to think better.

[Mark Darling @RalphWGoethe]

@annbauerwriter Nothing short circuits rationality like the evocation of child endangerment.

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@Keir_Starmer So glad this isn't Trojan Horsing digital ID and eventual (very soon) censorship.

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@PorcDalmatian @SketchesbyBoze Rope! Great movie.

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@Variety I want my obit to mention my seething hatred for Brussel sprouts. It's an essential part of who I am.

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@LauraTrottMP "... we must protect childhood."

"Who will think of the children?" is SO hack. Just say it: "We want control."

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@MonkeyBearCop @annbauerwriter @JonHaidt @TheFIREorg Sounds like Rogan pushed back on it?

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@annbauerwriter @JonHaidt @TheFIREorg Agreed.

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@MonkeyBearCop @annbauerwriter @JonHaidt @TheFIREorg I had no idea! Massively disappointed to hear that.

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@realsashastone Looks edgy, looking forward to hearing what you have to say about it.

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@countyhwy Chinese Food, love it!

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@rocknrollofall It was between this and Farewell To Kings.

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@mtaibbi Your commentors, more than any other I see, is the living embodiment of the Jeff Lewis Meal Deal. It's uncanny.

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@MikeBinderjokes @mikemovies No movie has destroyed me like Children Of Men. And that's every damn time I watch it!! I'm sure you know the scene I'm thinking about.

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@WorkElizab Private Snowball

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@wil_da_beast630 The Sorrows Of Young Werther.

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I adored it from my late teens through early thirties, but I have a hunch I'd be impatient with him now. I read Dunces in my early thirties, too, along with my gf at the time, and we both found it hysterically funny. Matt & Walter did a chapter of Catch-22 on ATW and that led to my finally reading it, so maybe three years ago. Took forever, as I couldn't handle large doses for some reason, but in the smaller doses I laughed as hard as I ever have at any written material. But MAN is it long!

But having said all that, I don't find it difficult at all to imagine finding none of it funny. I have an online friend who is also very cultured and widely read, an English lady, who recently read Slaughterhouse-5 for the first time and found it completely disappointing. And I gasped when she referred to Python as too broad for her taste.

Honestly, I kind of like it when people I admire dislike things I imagined to be beyond reproach. It makes me look at the things in a new light and reminds me that nothing is beyond reproach.

Except maybe The Bible. Or the Three B's for that matter. But everything else is fair game!

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@JVMonte2 I was seven and my sister had it lying around.

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@dr_ericberg I can't not!