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Gods of the Jungle Planet
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Can I Have Just One More Look?
DJ Ian in the studio with Professor Murray Jay Siskind, Dean of the Popular Culture Faculty and Head of the Elvis Studies Department, College-on-the-Hill:
DJ Ian: A summary of "Gods of the Jungle Planet" might make it sound like trash fiction.
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: It's much more than that.
I read it in one day, and it was a great and humbling experience, let me tell you. Close to mystical.
Modern day society is suffering brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.
"Gods of the Jungle Planet" is just the catastrophe we need.
DJ Ian: There are a lot of boobs in the novel. And every time they appear, somebody dies.
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: Usually, the bearer of the boobs.
DJ Ian: If not the barer of the boobs.
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: But that's it. The key take away point of the novel.
Boobs are the Portent of Catastrophe.
Boobs have preceded every catastrophe in the history of mankind.
Only, nobody was looking at them properly. We need to be taught how to read boobs and divine their real meaning.
"Gods of the Jungle Planet" is just the book we need to help us learn how to look. With an appropriate insight and sensibility.
Everybody who reads it will look at boobs in a different light, from a different perspective, um, from an, um,...
DJ Ian: Acute angle?
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: That's right. A cute angle.
DJ Ian: You've previously criticised David Foster Wallace for lacking the presence of women nearer the center of the narration. Do you think Vernon D. Burns remedies this flaw? Does he elevate women to their proper place in fiction?
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: Very much so, and in a way that could almost compensate for or balance Wallace.
I admit that I've always been partial to women.
To quote myself, I fall apart at the sight of long legs, striding, briskly, as a breeze carries up from the river, on a weekday, in the play of morning light.
And what fun it is to talk to an intelligent woman wearing nylon stockings as she crosses her legs.
Vernon Burns, I suspect, shares these predilections and can write wonderfully complicated women.
DJ Ian in the studio with Professor Murray Jay Siskind, Dean of the Popular Culture Faculty and Head of the Elvis Studies Department, College-on-the-Hill:
DJ Ian: A summary of "Gods of the Jungle Planet" might make it sound like trash fiction.
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: It's much more than that.
I read it in one day, and it was a great and humbling experience, let me tell you. Close to mystical.
Modern day society is suffering brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.
"Gods of the Jungle Planet" is just the catastrophe we need.
DJ Ian: There are a lot of boobs in the novel. And every time they appear, somebody dies.
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: Usually, the bearer of the boobs.
DJ Ian: If not the barer of the boobs.
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: But that's it. The key take away point of the novel.
Boobs are the Portent of Catastrophe.
Boobs have preceded every catastrophe in the history of mankind.
Only, nobody was looking at them properly. We need to be taught how to read boobs and divine their real meaning.
"Gods of the Jungle Planet" is just the book we need to help us learn how to look. With an appropriate insight and sensibility.
Everybody who reads it will look at boobs in a different light, from a different perspective, um, from an, um,...
DJ Ian: Acute angle?
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: That's right. A cute angle.
DJ Ian: You've previously criticised David Foster Wallace for lacking the presence of women nearer the center of the narration. Do you think Vernon D. Burns remedies this flaw? Does he elevate women to their proper place in fiction?
Prof. Murray Jay Siskind: Very much so, and in a way that could almost compensate for or balance Wallace.
I admit that I've always been partial to women.
To quote myself, I fall apart at the sight of long legs, striding, briskly, as a breeze carries up from the river, on a weekday, in the play of morning light.
And what fun it is to talk to an intelligent woman wearing nylon stockings as she crosses her legs.
Vernon Burns, I suspect, shares these predilections and can write wonderfully complicated women.
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Your insight into chesticles is without peer.
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When not watching TV or perusing "The Sun", Murray likes to write for "Modernism/Modernity", "American Transvestite" and "Ufology".
Amongst academic peers, he is known as the broom that sweeps the system.

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That's only part of the story, of course. (I've added some clues to the review.)

I've always been completely to women."
If you could be cut into slices, you might be a better layer.



What does it say about God's attitude to women? Did Eve have boobs before she and Adam were expelled from the Garden of Eden? I've been looking through Genesis 2-3 and find nothing that helps me answer this important question. But I've never been very good at theology.


David, Manny recently put me up to writing an Ode to Norks called 34DD Haiku.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
(Someone to Watch Over) Kat's 34DD (Haiku)
That I may see thee
Slip Manny twixt lip and cup
34DD.
Strangely, it hasn't elicited any responses on the other thread.


Ich-Du2 is the lesser known sequel to Ich-Du.
In it, Boober was forced to qualify many of the concepts he had explored in the abstract in Ich-Du.
Ich-Du2 ("I-Thou-Two" or "I-You-Two") is a relationship that stresses the mutual, holistic existence of one being and two sub-beings or aspects of one being.
It is a concrete encounter, because these beings and sub-beings meet one another in their authentic existence, without any qualification or objectification of one another. (Boober later realised there was more objectification occurring than he originally thought, though it occurred only in one direction.)
Imagination and ideas play a role in this relation. (Professor Murray Jay Siskind later explored the role of the male imagination with respect to the two sub-beings in his seminal work, "A Bra Full of Expectations".)
In an I-Thou-Two encounter, infinity and universality are made actual (rather than being merely concepts).
Infinity is the expectation of the male being, and universality describes the universal appeal (at least, to males) of the two sub-beings.
Boober stressed that an Ich-Du relationship lacks any composition (e.g. structure) and communicates no content (e.g. information).
In contrast, an Ich-Du-Two relationship is all composition (e.g. complementarity and structure, sometimes supported by an uplifting bra) and communicates content (e.g. information in the form of the implication of maternity, sustenance, reassurance and comfort).
Unlike an Ich-Du event, an Ich-Du-Two experience can be proven to happen as an event, e.g. it can be measured, in particular in bra size, scoping with hands or symbolically by emoticon, e.g.:
((((0))))((((0))))
Boober concluded that it is even more intrinsically real and perceivable than an Ich-Du event.
A variety of examples are used to illustrate Ich-Du-Two relationships in daily life � a man and the two breasts of a woman, a man and the two legs of a woman, a man and the two eyes of a woman, a man and the two buttocks of a woman, a man and his own two balls (Professor Siskind questions whether the latter example is actually an example of "Ich-mich").
Common English words used to describe the Ich-Du-Two relationship include fondle, grope and scratch.

By the way, I never put you up to writing that haiku, it was your idea.

I was hoping that I wouldn't have to travel down this smutty and even nutty road but I am afraid that intellectually you have just gone off the deep end on all this Boober stuff and thrown down the ever-loving gauntlet catch-as-catch-can. Anyone with even an ounce, nay a modicum, of common sense and even a Sunday School grammarian's weak handle on the German, not Mrs. Boober, knows that when the objectification of the subjective of the pluperfect (pluparfait as the French ice cream vendors refer to it in the vernacular) its subjunctive tense becomes ipso facto objectified, ob-jerk-tified, vivified and even villified in matters of the conjunctive and sometimes the conjugal analysis not be be confused, if you can see your way clear, with conjunctivitis, then the second half of Martin's algebra-ic equation, if you can get a rough handle on all this fungible matter, as it pertains to Boober's configuration, God's finest creation, and godless Nietzsche's "birth of tragedy" as surely this must be, then certainly you must -- I repeat -- MUSS, as Goethe so wisely advised, use the ICH-DICH personal pronoun objectification configuration in reference to Boobers. I sincerely hope that I have made myself perfectly clear and please don't let it happen, again.

Als ob.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
David, you don't have to read the next bit...
This reminds me of the old joke about the koala that made love to an elephant. His friends put him up to it.

I would recommend the Proustian configuration: "Comme si, comme ca," which Mae West made famous in her taciturn but serendipidous translation: "Come up and see me sometime." Or, if you insist, the "als wenn" which in the sheer naked pulchritude of Bavarian Schwytzer-Deutsche means the outhouse is available. I simply want to add that many of the women in the streets of New York can't stop talking about your steamy new novel, "69 Shades of Ian Graye." I have no idea what all the fuss is about but assume it has something to do with sunglasses or maybe Hades in the works of Homer or Virgil. But well done, old man. Good show.

"Je n'oublie jamais un visage, surtout si je me suis assis sur elle"

Manny, I almost busted a gut on this one.

Winston Churchill, obviously inspired by Mae West, said, "Just because my initials are W.C., doesn't mean I can be sat upon."

I have to go for my morning walk. I'll leave you two to put down this gargantuan rabble of ideas.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..."
Ian, I hadn't read it. Good stuff. Really.

A booby haiku
at midnight on friday just
proves I need a life
then again it did
almost make me shoot my diet
sprite out of my nose
