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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
fully functional?
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I meant transvestite, not transsexual. I'm too cheap to get the op.
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Originally Posted by atari 2600
It wasn't taken personally, I'm used to jealousy. It still makes me wonder just why it happens, but I am used to it.
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As I've said before, I admire your store of knowledge. Admiration is markedly different from jealousy.
And while I'm not saying this is your M.O. (this is a slight tangent), becoming culturally well-rounded and amply well-read is not, technically, such a difficult feat.
Anyone literate can read a book.
They can even read LOTS of them!
I haven't read a single thing by Dostoyevsky, for example. It is not, obviously, because I am unable to read or understand; it's because I simply don't want to. He ain't my cup 'o tea.
So when I'm standing around nonchalantly at a gallery opening, sniffing my freshly poured merlot and counting the number of goatees in the room, will I look like an ignorant ass when the subject of Russian literature comes up? Of course. Will I be quietly ridiculed, labeled provincial, and dismissed? Of course.
I'm willing to bet, however, that those same people wouldn't know the tales behind James Cameron's birthing of The Terminator. Not that that matters, because that is obviously quite inferior in quality to the Russian classics, isn't it?
Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. But I personally find it much more interesting, and frankly, that's what matters to me.
To reiterate: People have a nearly limitless capacity to digest and regurgitate information (synonymous with "university"). The difference is the MOTIVATION behind such a pursuit.
I'm jealous of quite a few things and people, but you, atari, are not one of them.