Re: Author meets critics

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James Joyce was a dick.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 10:48 AM
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I should probably modify that to, at least somewhat of a dick, to my knowledge.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 10:49 AM
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Coming in late, but you must be talking about some "special" asshole category. I don't think that Garrison K. can compete in the open category with the rockers, jocks, and Hollywood types.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 11:29 AM
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You're saying is the man behind FL is a dick, right?


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 11:42 AM
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At the Mineshaft.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 11:59 AM
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I meant "dick", of course.

Distinctions are important, I know, I know. Slip of the tongue, really! I know the difference, whatever it is.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:00 PM
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At least in his later years, Hemingway was a dick.

Kerouac was more of an asshole than a dick.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:16 PM
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I'm not all that clear on the distinction between the two.


Posted by: Tarrou | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:19 PM
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The asshole is what you poop out of.

The dick is what you pee out of (if you're a man).

Really, people.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:24 PM
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Seriously--

for me, "Dick" connotes "self-awarely arrogant."

"Asshole" connotes, "jerk, unlikeable, frequenty unaware of own jerky/unlikable qualities."

But largely they're interchangeable.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:27 PM
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The difference is explicated here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/quotes


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:30 PM
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Hemingway was always a dick, but when young, he was a smart, gifted dick, and performed manly feats of strength.

When he was old, he was a self-induglent, fat dick; he wrote incoherent novels about the types of food he liked to eat, and talked primarily about performing manly feats of strength.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:35 PM
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I have no idea how that link made it through the content filter on the connection in my office.

Re 9: Mocking me with sentences that end with prepositions, eh? The enforcers around here must really be slipping.


Posted by: Tarrou | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:36 PM
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Your slur is one up with which I will not put.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:38 PM
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Tom Hilde is never around when you need him.


Posted by: Tarrou | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 1:51 PM
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He probably couldn't explicate the difference between asshole and dick either, I imagine. Unless it were misspelled.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 2:44 PM
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he could demonstrate the qualities, perhaps, and then we could analyze which things he said made him an asshole, and which a dick, which things made him dog poo, which things more akin to a douche.

I like coffee, I like pie, merry bloodstream, open eye.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 09-14-05 8:21 PM
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13, I'm sorry- should have noted that the text mightn't have been work-safe.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 09-15-05 10:00 AM
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