Member Updates (what's going on in your life)

[Worm]

Forbes and Fortune magazine?  are their articles good?  they do interviews?


it's nice to see you're back, Canarycan.

Kafka's works are advisable

[Canerican]

Well, the articles are interesting to me, but its alot of speculation about the stock markets, as well as stories about companies, CEOs, pretty much everything in the business world. Forbes tends to be more political, of course Steve Forbes is a leader in the Conservative movement, and ran as a Republican for President in 2000, so you can guess the bent. Fortune has wordier and more detailed articles, but tends to favor Liberal policies. There are interviews, but they are generally brief, and I think mostly used for stories about various topics as quotes (not shown in their entirety).
There is Forbeslife which I am sure many here would appreciate, about travel, and the high life in general.

The main problem I am having with reading is that I don't find that classics are relevant to what I need to know. I know that they hold lessons for me, it is just difficult to justify spending two hours with Charles Dickens, when I could be reading about finance... it is certainly a struggle...

[Worm]

Forbes sounds like a very interesting magazine...
Are those stories about companies mainly written from a business-perspective, or is most of the weight on the human factor?  
Since the interviews are brief, the stories about companies will probably also not be focussing a lot on the human factor... am i right in saying this?


You don't find classics that are relevant to what you need to know?  What?
There are plenty of classics that deal with philosophical themes, that are quite relevant to your own life.  And not to forget, there is a plot with people in it, ... and yur still people, aren't you?
When i think about Dickens, i think about Oliver Twist, and about the jew Fagin... Fagin is an interesting character, isn't he?

[Worm]

I must say, when i read something like Chapter2 in PartIII of Dostoevsky's "Demons", my blood flows quicker than when i read an article in some magazine.

i'm sold!

[Worm]

and if someone wants to discuss this higher with me...


i'm ready for this philosophic duel - anytime.

[Floor]

Today was my last day of high school.

[Silvio]

Wow! congratulations. I left school in 1979 ! A great time in a way, though the people who talk about
Punk as if it was about anything but dressing up and going out. The Triffids, The Scientists and the Hoodoo Gurus, all came from my one horse town, but ther was a real cultural fascism. You're refreshingly
catholic tastes would have been verboten in those days. Imagine some spotty dickhead telling you the Beatles, Stones Dylan and the Velvets were old hat.
Nobs. It's funny how a years difference at school is an enormous gap, but means nothing as soon as you're gone. I'm almost old enough to be your
grandfather!
Great Uncle Silvio

[Floor]

Eh, my dad is 73, so I don't think anyone is old enough to be my grandfather unless they're in their 80s. It helps that, despite coming from a background that includes accountants, math teachers and engineers, I can hardly count.

And I was raised Catholic, but it didn't quite take, though I find religion in general quite interesting, but I practice none. I considered myself to be a Buddhist for quite a while, but I'm at my most comfortable when I cobble a belief system together out of whatever half-assed philosophizing I do on nights I should be going out on dates or something.

I will miss high school on some days. But I'm off to be an English major (and maybe a Philosophy minor) at a tiny, podunk college, so it's worth it to be done.

[Silvio]

I did Philosophy and English. And French and Creative
writing. Never finished one. I find it extremely difficult
to finish a course of antibiotics.
I'd be interested in knowing what English texts one
does these days. Are you familiar with George Gissing
? English contemporary of Dostoevsky.
What's a 'podunk'? I've led a sheltered life.
Silvio

[Floor]

Podunk just means that it's tiny and in the middle of nowhere. And I guess it also suggests that it's uncultured, but all the English professors I talked to were awesome.

[Silvio]

I don't want to pull rank here but it seems to me you
can't truly understand the concept of 'the middle of nowhere' when you live in Europe. You really have to go to Australia, cheerfully philistine IS our culture.
Podunk. Well, I never.
Silvio