The Original Rube Goes Highbrow
Via crony NDR (who's apparently my main supplier for material these days), I find this impossibly highbrow poll which is nevertheless enticing.
1) Jane Austen or Charles Dickens? oh, please.... Dickens!
2) Who is your favorite George Eliot character? Having never cracked the spine on a George Eliot novel, I'm going to have to say "the man with the most interesting facial hair."
3) What is your favorite play by Sophocles? jeez... having suffered through a crushing production of Antigone in college (I was the sound tech and therefore yoked to the mast of that sinking ship), Oedipus Rex.
4) What is your favorite play by Euripides? The Bacchae, natch.
5) What is your favorite play by Shakespeare? Hamlet.
6) Plato or Aristotle? Aristotle
7) Name two movies that most people have probably never seen that you would highly recommend. "Red Rock West," starring Nicholas Cage in his pre-action indie mode, Lara Flynn Boyle, and the greatest regular-guy character actor of all time, J.T. Walsh. "The Day The Clown Cried," starring Jerry Lewis as an unlucky clown imprisoned by the Nazis who puts on the clown suit once again to entertain Jewish children in the camp before leading them onto the train to Auschwitz. Intended to be what "Life is Beautiful" eventually was, it is so repugnant in execution and repellent in message that Jerry Lewis has one copy - the last copy - locked away in his vault where nobody can ever screen it again. I have made it one of my life's goals to see this movie.
8) Foucault's Pendulum or The Name of the Rose? Tie.
9) Tea or Coffee? Tie.
10) In your opinion, the least appreciated great thinker in history is: yours truly, followed by (the historical, aphoristic, Gospel of Thomas) Jesus and Erasmus.
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1) Jane Austen or Charles
1) Jane Austen or Charles Dickens? Clearly, Jane Austen is the greatest English Novelist.
2) Who is your favorite George Eliot character? I repeat, verbatim, Johno's answer.
3) What is your favorite play by Sophocles? Having only seen/read one, my range of possible responses is limited. Oedipus the King. (Doesn't that name sound sort of, I don't know, faggoty?)
4) What is your favorite play by Euripides? Hecuba. What else?
5) What is your favorite play by Shakespeare? Hamlet is the easy answer, and I do dig that play. I have on disc or tape five versions of it, six if you count Strange Brew. But the one that really gets my motor running is Henry V. I love that play. Scorn, defiance. Slight regard.
6) Plato or Aristotle? Socrates.
7) Name two movies that most people have probably never seen that you would highly recommend. I, too would like to see that Lewis flick. But while we wait for the bloated hack to shuffle off this mortal coil, I would recommend Prime, a very well done low budget/indy style science fiction film, and They Live - far and a way the best B-movie ever made. "I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum." Rowdy Roddy Piper at his very best.
8) Foucault’s Pendulum or The Name of the Rose? Rose, by a hair. I just picked up a copy of the Pendulum at a Library sale (25 cents!) so's I can reread it. Its been a long time.
9) Tea or Coffee? Coffee, by a wide margin. Tea is for sissies.
10) In your opinion, the least appreciated great thinker in history is: Johno, followed in close succession by Karl Popper, Giordano Bruno and whoever invented toilet paper.
1) Jane Austen or Charles
1) Jane Austen or Charles Dickens? I can't finish a work by either one, so...
2) Who is your favorite George Eliot character? Are you frickin kidding?
3) What is your favorite play by Sophocles?
Hah hah hah *wiping tears* you're killing me.
4) What is your favorite play by Euripides?
Seriously though...heh, man...seriously though, the one with that guy.
5) What is your favorite play by Shakespeare? Othello. Which, btw, is also the first major production with a retail game tie-in.
6) Plato or Aristotle? I don't really know wine, so...
7) Name two movies that most people have probably never seen that you would highly recommend. The films I've enjoyed most often come from recommendations from other people, so...
8) Foucault’s Pendulum or The Name of the Rose? Hunh..the one with Christian Slater I guess.
9) Tea or Coffee? Depends on time of day and venue. But yeah, tea is for sissies.
10) In your opinion, the least appreciated great thinker in history is: Oh, I dunno...Steven Ambrose...?