blather
montaigne_and_pascal
andru235 M: "blah blah blah, now i am quoting cicero, blah blah blah"

P: "i am so pensive"

M: "now i am saying something interesting"

P: "the proof of jc is in the bologna, it is so obvious"

M: "now i am droning on pointlessly"

P: "montaigne is an idiot"

M: "here are thirty references to terrence, yet again"

P: "montaigne is wrong when he says, ..."

M: "now i am being interesting again. i am making good points."

P: "that darn montaigne."

M: "blah blah blah."

P: "now that i have stopped focusing on proving christ and dissing montaigne, i am finally able to record some interesting thoughts. like, montaigne's idiocy proves christs passion."

M: "i read the entirety of the literature available at the alexandrian library when i used that time machine over there. and though i am, it would seem, though not ever to be dismissed formally; *quod*non*loquitur*sempris*, as observed, indelibly, by the irreverent juvenal; if i shall share with you an interesting tidbit i shall follow it with a bore;..."

P: "montaigne is a..."

M: "i shall write a series of gradually lengthening essays on totally random topics, using an idiom that will translate horribly from 16th century french into 21st century american english."

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andru235 hereby acknowledges that this is a rather lame blathe; yet, having recently read a great deal of them both, and having no other outlet for the relatively unstimulating mental acquisitions therefrom, i am forced at gunpoint to ramble at length, as usual. ======================================
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pete there is never a reason to apologize for a blathe 050819
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andru235 i tend to agree, pete.

today, i read more from montaigne, and i find all sorts of interesting comments. where were they yesterday, when he seemed so trivial? i must have been in a trivializing mood...[not that it mattered :D ]
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