Little Angry DollYou Are What You Read
October 8th 2006 12:02
You are what you read.
How much does an idiom, genre or vernacular language influence our thoughts after a good read? Does an injection of Dostoyevsky leave you strung out with an ennui that craves another hit of helpless longing? Does reading Bridget Jones make you feel less pathetic? I find myself thinking in the language of what I read all the time … but the thought is the same.
“Dear child. While I can excuse your desire to expel the contents of your bowls into your nappy, may I well ask why you did so with such a sound as to leave so little consideration to my feelings, my rank, my sensibility?”
Austen
“In the afternoon dark clouds suddenly appeared. The nappy was full. I lay down in anticipation of wordless horror.”
Murakami
“Why don’t I
Stop
And see the nappy for what it is?
A motherless cry.”
Plath
“The baby needs to have a nappy change
Before we head off up unto the park
The older child cries out “Where is my toast?”
My blog will have to wait another day.”
Coleridge
(yes – please note the iambic pentameter)
“Suddenly, the god dam bats descended. There were too many of them. Were they bats or something more deadly, more threatening? How much gin had I consumed? The last thing I could really remember was the unspeakable horror of nappies.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Be the changed nappy you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“That nappy is bad.
That nappy must go,
It’s too full of crap
Said the Cat in the Hat”
Dr Seuss
“Hari Seldon sat down in front of a pile of nappies, unsure what to do. Psychohistory couldn’t have calculated this.”
Asimov
How much does an idiom, genre or vernacular language influence our thoughts after a good read? Does an injection of Dostoyevsky leave you strung out with an ennui that craves another hit of helpless longing? Does reading Bridget Jones make you feel less pathetic? I find myself thinking in the language of what I read all the time … but the thought is the same.
“Dear child. While I can excuse your desire to expel the contents of your bowls into your nappy, may I well ask why you did so with such a sound as to leave so little consideration to my feelings, my rank, my sensibility?”
“In the afternoon dark clouds suddenly appeared. The nappy was full. I lay down in anticipation of wordless horror.”
Murakami
“Why don’t I
Stop
And see the nappy for what it is?
A motherless cry.”
Plath
“The baby needs to have a nappy change
Before we head off up unto the park
The older child cries out “Where is my toast?”
My blog will have to wait another day.”
Coleridge
(yes – please note the iambic pentameter)
“Suddenly, the god dam bats descended. There were too many of them. Were they bats or something more deadly, more threatening? How much gin had I consumed? The last thing I could really remember was the unspeakable horror of nappies.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Be the changed nappy you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“That nappy is bad.
That nappy must go,
It’s too full of crap
Said the Cat in the Hat”
Dr Seuss
“Hari Seldon sat down in front of a pile of nappies, unsure what to do. Psychohistory couldn’t have calculated this.”
Asimov
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