Dan Hull, on his recent European tour, had some really great sex in Paris.
At least Geeklawyer so surmises, based on his embarrassingly breathless reluctant schoolboy sighing about the French superiority over the English:
The French are
designed by God to seem as provokingly dissimilar from the British as possible. Catholic, Cartesian, Mediterranean; Machiavellian in politics, Jesuitical in argument, Casanovan in sex; relaxed about pleasure, and treating the arts as central to life, rather than some add-on, like a set of alloy wheels.
Geeklawyer would merely observe that the Jesuits were renowned for tendentious sophistry, Casanova had Gonorrhoea, the Catholics specialise in buggering little boys, Machiavelli was a failure, ç was pompous and the French know as little about art as Americans, possibly less.
The French have the pretence, a national self delusion, of culture and intellectualism, pseudo-intellectualism in fact; like all good bullshitters they will fool those with as little knowledge as themselves. For heavens sakes, this is a nation that encourages a retarded footballer to think it is acceptable to twitter pretentiously about ‘seagulls and trawlers’: “oh hee haw, I am how you zay, deep, profound, oui?”
No Dan, the French are full of more shit than George Bush after eating a pound of figs. They are the only European nation bad enough to make the English look good.
It isn’t that Geeklawyer dislike schoolboy crushes but they are best left for schoolboys rather than adults.
It really is a pity Ruthie wasn’t in Paris to keep you in check Dan.
Thanks for mention and, yeah, I can be a sap. The quote is not mine–it’s from Julian Barnes, who loves the French and France– but I do agree with it 95%. I’ve been in France a lot in the last 15 years, I’ve studied it and them for years, and my crush is an old and hopefully seasoned one. The French can be as small and as small-minded as Brits and Americans–but they do get the Art of Life better than Anglos. They just do. And they value, and do a better job at preserving, the best of Western ideas and culture. The French are difficult–but have something the rest of us do not have.
Your RSS feed, GL, is working again, but there is another problem. This post came through without any paragraphs or formatting at all.
Can you tell me the URL of the feed you are using? I haven’t noticed this as an issue.
http://geeklawyer.org/blog/wp-rss2.php
I noticed this too. Makes them hard to read. Didn’t have time to go and look at the RSS itself.
It looks like it isn’t using the content:encoding tag properly. The spec is here: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/
It’s meant to have the HTML in it, but it’s stripping it and use just plain text and presuming it’s whitespace preserving, which of course it isn’t.
This is a damnable nuisance — it’s some Wordpress configuration problem I guess — I’ll have to play with it.
I just use http://blog.geeklawyer.org/feed/ which seems fine
Clearly not that great, since Ruthie has now had a kind invitation from Dan to meet up when he is next in the UK:-)
But seriously, Ruthie has agreed to meet with Dan not becuase he is a rich handsome, successful American lawyer, but becuase he is a Hunter S. Thompson fan, who Ruthie regards as one of the greatest writers who ever lived…
Huh. I’m sulking *I* didn’t get an invite.
Would you turn up if you did?
I might, we’ll never know …
in fact its a bumper week for Ruthie since she is having lunch tomorrow with Liadnan. What can I say? Ruthie will be heading the “blogging as a social networking tool” talk at the conference. Or maybe chatting is just more fun than working…
And we had a very pleasant lunch. Thanks to Liadnan for making the effort to come out, and since I seem to be in the Temple a lot more these days, maybe we can do it again some time.
We did indeed and certainly shall. Though I confess I didn’t manage to finish drafting my PoC and instead semi-dozed off in the afternoon
…and erudite and funny and twisted.…
Moi?
Maybe you could mail my boss and say that!
If I can manage that in Court I’d be very pleased indeed…
ahem, I think he may have been talking about Hunter S. Thompson rather than you (though …).
There’s only room for one gigantic ego on this blog madam.
Er whoops.
I wouldnt even begin to compare myself to the Great Man.
You are not right about French. Probably you’ve never known French people good. You can’t do such a loud statement about this antion without any identification evidences. What can you answer on it?
I hope your day job is translating French into French, but thanks for dropping by anyway.
Everyone gets riled by that issue–even the French. To Translator: I’ve known the French so well that I am “banned” in the 1st, 8th, 9th and 18th arrondissements (but still may enter L’Opéra district in the 9th.) I never back up my statements. I am an ex-professor.