Manny’s review of The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso > Likes and Comments
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(Rescued from one of Matt's comment threads...)
Glad you rescued your fine piece of work before the whole GR site will go down the drain.
Have you noticed that book pages don't load completely anymore as of last night? First I thought they were playing the Godot game I started with my review. But now I think GR missed to replace a certificate that has now expired (is distrusted) with the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. See discussion here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
They are amazingly sloppy software engineers, aren't they? But this time I think they will fix the bug, it is just too flagrant...
I tend to agree. How they handle the <pre> bug is ridiculous. However, they seem to have fixed the book loading problem. According to Shaun (a Goodreads Expert) they "tweaked something". I just hope they didn't decided to drop some certificate altogether and left the site open for man-in-the-middle attacks or something.
I can see DT with his Beatrice (Melania) guiding him to Paradiso where he finds all the saints and angels are Mexican.
To me it seems more natural to caste Ivanka as Beatrice. But who is Virgil? Perhaps that should also be Trump, since he likes to say he is his own best adviser?
Sounds good to me, although I suspect many would give the Virgil nod to this guy.
Another very fine casting choice! It's so hard to decide!
I have been visited again by inspiration, and have added three verses.
Emma, I am not yet sure I wish to appoint you my Beatrice, but I will think about it. The fact that you claim to be an angel is certainly a point in your favour.
Manny wrote: "I have been visited again by inspiration, and have added three verses."
At first I though you left us with a cliff hanger by not answering the question in the last verse. But then I realized that that's the answer. To become a cliff hanger is the punishment for Trudeau's soul.
In other news: Maybe now is a good time to invest in North Korea beach hotels!
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/statu...
I didn't mean to hang any cliffs. I'm just waiting for my muse to reappear. They're terribly unpredictable.
And I hope the news about the PDRK beach hotels is part of a fair cultural exchange. I'm guessing that Kim will be invited to tender for running a few American prisons. From what I've heard, they're pretty good at that.
They already agreed on a joint detention center at Guantanamo:
http://www.der-postillon.com/2018/06/...
Some good reporting there. I see the lying MSM got it wrong again.
Hey, snappy name Glenn! Better trademark that before someone else does.
Manny, you just made me laugh so hard I almost coughed up my spleen. Yes, you did it again!
I was thinking of a snappy name for the joint detention center at Guantanamo - Gulag Archipelago Hotel in Korean seemed to fit, only I think Google translate garbled the translation into English.
Aw, thank you Elena! But I'm giving 90% of the credit to Dante!
Glen, I think Korean is having a little bit of trouble with the word "Gulag". "굴 라크" transliterates as "Gur-ra-g".
If I let GT translate from German "Gulag" I get "강제 수용소" which translates back to "Konzentrationslager" (concentration camp).
Interviewing muses? LOL. But I hope there's no casting couch involved. It's not ending well for Harvey Weinstein.
Cecily, how could you? Following my distinguished predecessor, I am only considering beautiful little girls whom I have chastely observed at a distance for a few minutes.
When we were at Basel Zoo last weekend, I was very hopeful for a moment. We were watching the rhinoceros being fed, and just in front of us was an angelic blonde five year old in a green dress, which she kept lifting up in order to scratch her bottom. I was sure that the scene had some deep allegorical significance and constituted a Sign. But no more verses have appeared since then, so I'm afraid it was a false alarm.
'O! how he was an unpleasant, fleshy lump!
Like some hobgoblin of the child's imagination
Or a thing that in the night goes bump.'
Now I am all over the place xD
Wonderful, Manny. I am one of those Dante nerds but loved it. Can't wait to hear what our prime minister has coming to him, in your Commedia Satyricon Part II...
Thank you, P.E. and Fergus. I am sorry that new verses have still failed to arrive. I told my girlfriend that I imperatively needed to find suitable inspiration, but before I could explain its essentially chaste nature she informed me that she was Not a-mused.
Manny, you're so cool!!! I love your reviews, they are so creative and make me laugh. Good luck on interviewing those muses
Oh, thank you Maria! I know this sounds like a rather forward question, since we don't know each other well, but do you have any experience in being a muse? Your avatar looks promisingly allegorical, though I am not sure whether the monkey on your shoulder symbolises Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, or the general state of the world today.
If you were to take the job, I can assure you that your duties would be very light. Basically, you'd just have to turn up every now and then in my dreams, bearing messages of comfort and hope together with a few dozen new verses. You do not have to compose the verses, I understand that various celestial specialists take care of that for you. I am however legally obliged to warn you that if it works you will become unpleasantly stereotyped in the popular imagination, and played by a variety of actresses who look nothing like you and interpret your character in ways that will make you beg the other angels not to watch. So if you choose to decline, I totally understand.
Oh! We muses are no angels, at all! That's why they don't let us do more than stepping randomly into peoples' dreams, and gossiping all our way in there. And an erratic and irresponsable nature ain't good for jobs. Besides those so-called celestial bosses spend all our money on rejuvenation process anyways!! You call it "eternity"... we call it "celestial influences".
Maybe you can find a real woman to do so. Like Beatriz! Real women ROCK. You can also find it within you and all that new age shit. 8-)
(Did I try too hard? Hahaha. Love your reviews!!).
Hey María, you've almost got the blurb for a bestselling paranormal romance there already! Amazingly quick work. Can muses inspire themselves? (This sounds like a chapter heading to me).
Believe me, I have nothing against real women. I live with a real woman. I adore her. But a muse... well, I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but a muse has to be unattainable. She has to be on a higher plane. She has to cause the poet enough anguish that he can only heal the wound in his heart by writing 5000 verses of exquisitely rhymed terza rima, or a hundred odd sonnets, or something like that. I must admit I'm a little hazy about the exchange rates. She absolutely should not tell you to take out the organic waste and be quick about it because lunch is nearly ready. Muses don't refer to disposal of organic waste. It's not Poetic.
At least, I believe I read something similar in the flyer from Muses-R-Us that I was given in last night's dream. Unfortunately I woke up before I got to the toll-free phone number. You guys have to stop doing that. Unless it's part of the poetic anguish of course, in which case, please continue.
Hahaha. Oh if it's any consolation I wish I had a muse myself :(, but a muse and Rosie (Jetsons, Robotina in Spanish) mix, as well. Then I could have all the time of the world to wander and wonder around the metaphysical and poetical stuff, and let her (or him!) do all the boring, mundane, ultimately disposable - but oh so neccesary - job. Ain't nobody got time for that! And muses are supposedly eternal, so.... case dismissed :)
So muses have muses, and sometimes they are robotic! This PNR is going to be killer. I can see vampire stock prices going down as we speak.
I wish i was ableto read this but sadly i cant
Autumn, I'm sorry that my divine inspiration is so slow arriving. God's like that.
Yeah that’s what everybody thinks; it’s was Brisbane circa 2010 😆
But verily, the Americans did dump
This gargantuan mistake of evolution
This travesty of humanity called Trump
Down the drain; so, though not a final solution
It does prove that your Muses
Are not entirely mistaken
In clamming up; the mind refuses
To accept the fact that the presidency was taken
By a man whose only claim to fame is
Bankrupting every business he has ever lead;
In fact, one can say that the "Trump" name is
Enough to ensure that the enterprise, as a business, is dead.
Bravo! You have a good muse, Signor Nandakishore!
Manny wrote: "Bravo! You have a good muse, Signor Nandakishore!"
Grazie, Signor Manfred.
She's my high school sweetheart, but don't let my wife know ;)
I have told the internet to treat this information as highly confidential.
..... Thus my muse is so capricious,
She only visits me when I'm not home.
I know, it sounds so superstitious
But I have this damn syndrome.
There are so Manny reasons to take my life
But wouldn't be a sin, being so handsome ?
Hunky or not, to leave this vale of strife
And make my dwelling in the wood of suicides
Maybe next to Ted Hughes's ex-wife?
The sweet poetry that she to me confides
With these images my heart is riven
But my good sense the thought derides
That Sylvia will fall for me is not a given
Particular since she'll be arboreal and dead
That's just some crap I read in Larry Niven
God Gonna Cut You Down
He found out you have
a Personal Jesus,
Don't disregard His priceless Crown,
No need to be facetious.
Find your peace, make love not war,
In Heaven or on the floor.
Needs work, but it's got a nice beat.......
I tried to reread this inspired review, but I have a problem. Every time I get to Canto III, Sextus starts to meow awful. I suspect he has something to object to, but when he's excited I
don't understand his language anymore. Could be due to " muse " ( the diminutive from Musette ) ?
Ever since I read your dune review I’ve been finding you everywhere.
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Glad you rescued your fine piece of work before the whole GR site will go down the drain.Have you noticed that book pages don't load completely anymore as of last night? First I thought they were playing the Godot game I started with my review. But now I think GR missed to replace a certificate that has now expired (is distrusted) with the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. See discussion here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
They are amazingly sloppy software engineers, aren't they? But this time I think they will fix the bug, it is just too flagrant...
I tend to agree. How they handle the <pre> bug is ridiculous. However, they seem to have fixed the book loading problem. According to Shaun (a Goodreads Expert) they "tweaked something". I just hope they didn't decided to drop some certificate altogether and left the site open for man-in-the-middle attacks or something.
Here come Dolores, Trump currency amongst the overly useless and needy.
I can see DT with his Beatrice (Melania) guiding him to Paradiso where he finds all the saints and angels are Mexican.
To me it seems more natural to caste Ivanka as Beatrice. But who is Virgil? Perhaps that should also be Trump, since he likes to say he is his own best adviser?
Sounds good to me, although I suspect many would give the Virgil nod to this guy.
Another very fine casting choice! It's so hard to decide!
I have been visited again by inspiration, and have added three verses. Emma, I am not yet sure I wish to appoint you my Beatrice, but I will think about it. The fact that you claim to be an angel is certainly a point in your favour.
Manny wrote: "I have been visited again by inspiration, and have added three verses."At first I though you left us with a cliff hanger by not answering the question in the last verse. But then I realized that that's the answer. To become a cliff hanger is the punishment for Trudeau's soul.
In other news: Maybe now is a good time to invest in North Korea beach hotels!
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/statu...
I didn't mean to hang any cliffs. I'm just waiting for my muse to reappear. They're terribly unpredictable.
And I hope the news about the PDRK beach hotels is part of a fair cultural exchange. I'm guessing that Kim will be invited to tender for running a few American prisons. From what I've heard, they're pretty good at that.
They already agreed on a joint detention center at Guantanamo:http://www.der-postillon.com/2018/06/...
Some good reporting there. I see the lying MSM got it wrong again.
Hey, snappy name Glenn! Better trademark that before someone else does.
Manny, you just made me laugh so hard I almost coughed up my spleen. Yes, you did it again!
I was thinking of a snappy name for the joint detention center at Guantanamo - Gulag Archipelago Hotel in Korean seemed to fit, only I think Google translate garbled the translation into English.
Aw, thank you Elena! But I'm giving 90% of the credit to Dante!
Glen, I think Korean is having a little bit of trouble with the word "Gulag". "굴 라크" transliterates as "Gur-ra-g".
If I let GT translate from German "Gulag" I get "강제 수용소" which translates back to "Konzentrationslager" (concentration camp).
Interviewing muses? LOL. But I hope there's no casting couch involved. It's not ending well for Harvey Weinstein.
Cecily, how could you? Following my distinguished predecessor, I am only considering beautiful little girls whom I have chastely observed at a distance for a few minutes. When we were at Basel Zoo last weekend, I was very hopeful for a moment. We were watching the rhinoceros being fed, and just in front of us was an angelic blonde five year old in a green dress, which she kept lifting up in order to scratch her bottom. I was sure that the scene had some deep allegorical significance and constituted a Sign. But no more verses have appeared since then, so I'm afraid it was a false alarm.
'O! how he was an unpleasant, fleshy lump!Like some hobgoblin of the child's imagination
Or a thing that in the night goes bump.'
Now I am all over the place xD
Wonderful, Manny. I am one of those Dante nerds but loved it. Can't wait to hear what our prime minister has coming to him, in your Commedia Satyricon Part II...
Thank you, P.E. and Fergus. I am sorry that new verses have still failed to arrive. I told my girlfriend that I imperatively needed to find suitable inspiration, but before I could explain its essentially chaste nature she informed me that she was Not a-mused.
Manny, you're so cool!!! I love your reviews, they are so creative and make me laugh. Good luck on interviewing those muses
Oh, thank you Maria! I know this sounds like a rather forward question, since we don't know each other well, but do you have any experience in being a muse? Your avatar looks promisingly allegorical, though I am not sure whether the monkey on your shoulder symbolises Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, or the general state of the world today.If you were to take the job, I can assure you that your duties would be very light. Basically, you'd just have to turn up every now and then in my dreams, bearing messages of comfort and hope together with a few dozen new verses. You do not have to compose the verses, I understand that various celestial specialists take care of that for you. I am however legally obliged to warn you that if it works you will become unpleasantly stereotyped in the popular imagination, and played by a variety of actresses who look nothing like you and interpret your character in ways that will make you beg the other angels not to watch. So if you choose to decline, I totally understand.
Oh! We muses are no angels, at all! That's why they don't let us do more than stepping randomly into peoples' dreams, and gossiping all our way in there. And an erratic and irresponsable nature ain't good for jobs. Besides those so-called celestial bosses spend all our money on rejuvenation process anyways!! You call it "eternity"... we call it "celestial influences".Maybe you can find a real woman to do so. Like Beatriz! Real women ROCK. You can also find it within you and all that new age shit. 8-)
(Did I try too hard? Hahaha. Love your reviews!!).
Hey María, you've almost got the blurb for a bestselling paranormal romance there already! Amazingly quick work. Can muses inspire themselves? (This sounds like a chapter heading to me).Believe me, I have nothing against real women. I live with a real woman. I adore her. But a muse... well, I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but a muse has to be unattainable. She has to be on a higher plane. She has to cause the poet enough anguish that he can only heal the wound in his heart by writing 5000 verses of exquisitely rhymed terza rima, or a hundred odd sonnets, or something like that. I must admit I'm a little hazy about the exchange rates. She absolutely should not tell you to take out the organic waste and be quick about it because lunch is nearly ready. Muses don't refer to disposal of organic waste. It's not Poetic.
At least, I believe I read something similar in the flyer from Muses-R-Us that I was given in last night's dream. Unfortunately I woke up before I got to the toll-free phone number. You guys have to stop doing that. Unless it's part of the poetic anguish of course, in which case, please continue.
Hahaha. Oh if it's any consolation I wish I had a muse myself :(, but a muse and Rosie (Jetsons, Robotina in Spanish) mix, as well. Then I could have all the time of the world to wander and wonder around the metaphysical and poetical stuff, and let her (or him!) do all the boring, mundane, ultimately disposable - but oh so neccesary - job. Ain't nobody got time for that! And muses are supposedly eternal, so.... case dismissed :)
So muses have muses, and sometimes they are robotic! This PNR is going to be killer. I can see vampire stock prices going down as we speak.
I wish i was ableto read this but sadly i cant
Autumn, I'm sorry that my divine inspiration is so slow arriving. God's like that.
Yeah that’s what everybody thinks; it’s was Brisbane circa 2010 😆
But verily, the Americans did dumpThis gargantuan mistake of evolution
This travesty of humanity called Trump
Down the drain; so, though not a final solution
It does prove that your Muses
Are not entirely mistaken
In clamming up; the mind refuses
To accept the fact that the presidency was taken
By a man whose only claim to fame is
Bankrupting every business he has ever lead;
In fact, one can say that the "Trump" name is
Enough to ensure that the enterprise, as a business, is dead.
Bravo! You have a good muse, Signor Nandakishore!
Manny wrote: "Bravo! You have a good muse, Signor Nandakishore!"Grazie, Signor Manfred.
She's my high school sweetheart, but don't let my wife know ;)
I have told the internet to treat this information as highly confidential.
..... Thus my muse is so capricious, She only visits me when I'm not home.
I know, it sounds so superstitious
But I have this damn syndrome.
There are so Manny reasons to take my life
But wouldn't be a sin, being so handsome ?
Hunky or not, to leave this vale of strifeAnd make my dwelling in the wood of suicides
Maybe next to Ted Hughes's ex-wife?
The sweet poetry that she to me confides
With these images my heart is riven
But my good sense the thought derides
That Sylvia will fall for me is not a given
Particular since she'll be arboreal and dead
That's just some crap I read in Larry Niven
God Gonna Cut You DownHe found out you have
a Personal Jesus,
Don't disregard His priceless Crown,
No need to be facetious.
Find your peace, make love not war,
In Heaven or on the floor.
Needs work, but it's got a nice beat.......
I tried to reread this inspired review, but I have a problem. Every time I get to Canto III, Sextus starts to meow awful. I suspect he has something to object to, but when he's excited I don't understand his language anymore. Could be due to " muse " ( the diminutive from Musette ) ?
Ever since I read your dune review I’ve been finding you everywhere.
