It has been brought to my attention that I have not updated my blog for a while so I'm doing that now. Last night I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' which I have been meaning to see but unfortunately the film was crap. The story line did not really interest me (Two gay cowboys cheat on their wives and one of them gets killed.) On the plus side I have seen other better films as well. 'Revolutionary Road' was waaayy better than I thought it would be. However I did also get to see some cool action movies like 'No Country for Old Men' which had an annoying ending and 'Black Hawk Down' which I had never seen before until this year.
For Uni I am reading "Plato's Republic" which is very awesome and unlike D&D it makes sense spending time on it. I love seeing Socrates trying to defend Justice while at the same time setting up a hypothetical nightmare of a "Just City" where the literature will be controlled and the basis of society will be a "Grand lie". For english I read 'Old New Zealand' which was a racist but funnying perspective of Maori by the Narrator who claims to be F. E. Manning. Also I have read some of Katherine Mansfield's short stories which I ardently dislike because every sentence is a symbol or metaphor for something else. The result of this is a story full of apparently ordinary happenings and a tutorial full of students speculating on the meaning of one of the characters going to the toilet at that particular time. 'Oh why did that man just pick his nose, you know I think he was trying to pull out the evil in his brain'. My Chaucer paper will involve me learing to read Middle English which looks a little hard but I should be fine with that.
okay thats all I have to write for now
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