icarus drowning

Actually, this one is better.

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Putting stuff on cats before Stuff on My Cat was cool.

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Detox

Gunna try this shit starting tomorrow. The way I figure it is that, in a week, my friend is having a party at which I’ll probably have a fair few drinks, hence I want to get this done for a week and then, come next Thursday, I can drink again.

I don’t actually need to detox for health reasons, if anything I’m underweight and anything I can do to gain weight would probably only be beneficial, but I do drink a lot of Pepsi Max, and whilst this has no sugar, there’s shit loads of aspartame and all of that bad crap which probably isn’t very good for me

But the main reason is because there was a study that showed that process sugars can actually reduce synaptic activity, which makes it harder to remember things and generally impedes smartness. So with an exam coming up in about three or four weeks (a small testimony to the truth of this study) I think it may be best if I have all my brain functions at their utmost capacity, because I’m going to need it.

Anyway, time to see how this goes. Probably not well.

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Yep, it’s about that time for cat gifs.

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Book a Week #7

The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald.

Pretty good; a lot like his other books but I liked the way he talked more about places across the world as opposed to limiting himself to just England or Europe.

I’ve got to write an essay on him for one of my modules, however I don’t think I’d do it justice unless I wrote it whilst travelling across the country interviewing people about him. Although the people would have to be fictional, otherwise I’d probably get expelled for plagiarism…

Then again, I think that’d be going out on a limb far too much. Anyway, next book, Campo Santo, another book of his full of essays about stuff. Should be good.

I think I’m going to set this as my summer reading. It’s one of those books I’ve always wanted to read, so I think now’s as good a time as any. However it does weigh about the same as a baby elephant and makes War and Peace look like a novella… So I guess we’ll see.

Book a Week #7

I didn’t technically finish this in a week, but still a book I’ve finished, so I’m going to include it.

This week it was The Mandarins by Simone De Beauvoir, which is a weird one. I kind of enjoyed it, but at the same time got really quite bored with it. It is 730 pages long, but that’s not really the problem, it’s the fact that all of the characters spend a lot time talking about politics, and in a really boring rhetorical manner. It is literally different characters saying why communism is bad and just reaffirming their position as socialists. On a political level it’s a bit misguided, but also it is just boring.

Other than that a pretty interesting look at relationships and post-WW2 sentiments in France, kind of glad I read it.

Now onto The Emigrants by W.G Sebald, a more modest 200 page book.

Book a Week #7

But behind, as I should be on 9 now, but I have had things to do and thus been impeded from catching up with this list. I have, however, finished a book.
It was The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald, which was quite good. Again, not really a book per se (although none of his are, he termed them ‘prose-fiction’), but still a very good read.
It documents his travelling theought Norfolk and Suffolk recounting various interesting facts, events and stories of the place and people who’ve lived there, culminating in a chapter about European silk production.
It’s better than it sounds and if you’re looking for something a bit different to your normal reading experience then I do reccomend it. Hopefully I’m going to read his other book, The Emigrants, too.