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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Read-Tard

I recently finished reading the book Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. It's nowhere as good as Robinson Crusoe, but I still love and his long-ass sentences. Here's my favorite:
There is nothing so absurd, so surfeiting, so ridiculous, as a man heated by wine in his head, and wicked gust in his inclination together; he is in the possession of two devils at once, and can no more govern himself by his reason than a mill can grind without water; his vice tramples upon all that was in him that had any good in it, if any such thing there was; nay, his very sense is blinded by its own rage, and he acts absurdities even in his views; such a drinking more, when he is drunk already; picking up a common woman, without regard to what she is or who she is, whether sound or rotten, clean or unclean, whether ugly or handsome, whether old or young, and so blinded as not really to distinguish.

Translation: Dudes get beer goggles.

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