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Title: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 26, 2008, 04:23:42 AM
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So I sat down, and as I always try to keep control over my sentences, I said: 'for winter's much less of an effort; it's easier to comport oneself, one doesn't have to take so much trouble with one's words.  Don't you agree, Fraulein?  I do hope I'm right about this.'  My right leg was now giving me a lot of trouble.  At first it seemed to have fallen apart completely, and only graduallydid I manage to get it back into shape by manipulation and careful rearrangement.

Then I heard the girl, who, out of sympathy, had also sat down, say in a low voice: 'No, you don't impress me at all because---'

'Just a moment,' I said, pleased and full of expectation, 'you mustn't waste so much as five minutes talking to me, dear Fraulein.  Please eat something while you're talking, I implore you.'

And stretching out my arm I took a large bunch of grapes hanging heavily from a bowl held up by a bronze winged cupid, dangled it for a moment in the air, and then laid it on a small blue plate which I handed to the girl, not without a certain elegance, I trust.

'You don't impress me at all,' she said, 'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.  What I really think, sir --- why do you always call me dear Fraulein? --- is that you can't be bothered with the truth simply because it's too tiring.'

This is pretty much how all my dates go.  Kafka :bow
Title: Misunderstanding prepositional phrases is the lowest form of wit.
Post by: Mandark on January 26, 2008, 05:11:18 AM
You interacted with women in 1904?
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 26, 2008, 05:14:57 AM
I've been very discreet about it till now.  I was inspired by one of Patel's astute observations and figured that, thanks to inflation, this would work even better than the developing-country gambit.
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 26, 2008, 06:40:30 AM
I've been very discreet about it till now.  I was inspired by one of Patel's astute observations and figured that, thanks to inflation, this would work even better than the developing-country gambit.

which observation was this
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 26, 2008, 07:04:23 AM
The one about the universality of women's willingness to market certain services.
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: Barry Egan on January 26, 2008, 11:31:50 AM
I've been very discreet about it till now.  I was inspired by one of Patel's astute observations and figured that, thanks to inflation, this would work even better than the developing-country gambit.

I can't tell if this post was meant to illustrate your point in the op or not.
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 26, 2008, 07:14:37 PM
It's a bit tricky, but I bet you can figure it out.
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 27, 2008, 05:38:43 AM
ok, so as of this morning women are pretty awesome and I take back anything bad I ever said about any woman ever, including Michelle Malkin, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the witch from the Narnia books.
Title: Re: franz kafka accurately depicted my interactions with women in 1904
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 27, 2008, 06:14:50 AM
race traitor