Discover the World of Trotsky

From "The Formalist School" and "Revolution and Social Art", Literature and Revolution, tr. Rose Strunsky, and reprinted in The Modern Tradition (ed. Richard Ellmann--yes, the Joyce biographer--and Charles Feidelson, Jr).

Shklovsky's destruction of Marxism in five points reminds us very much of those articles which were published against Darwinism in the magazine "The Orthodox Review" in the good old days. If the doctrine of the origin of man from the monkey were true, wrote the learned Bishop Nikanor of Odessa thirty or forty years ago, then our grandfathers would have had distinct signs of a tail, or would have noticed such a characteristic in their grandfathers and grandmothers. Second, as everybody knows, monkeys can only give birth to monkeys. [...] Fifth, Darwinism is incorrect, because it contradicts Formalism--I beg your pardon. I meant to say the formal decisions of the universal church conferences.

OH SNAP. XD

God, I loves me some Trotskyite snark.

l33 = Neanderthal.

I AM MAN, CONQUEROR OF NATURE. I make FIRE! Hunt MAMMOTH! Kill BIG GAME!

I have also just purchased a dishwasher and am the proud recipient of a small and limited credit line, which is more credit than I had when I walked into the store. The game plan, at this point, is to pay off the dishwasher, buy a laptop and a desktop and junk to go with them, pay all that off, and then cancel and cut up the card. At that point, it ought to have served its purpose. However, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here.

m0mmy picked out the dishwasher; it's a new white Whirlpool, and the people at Best Buy, in their eagerness to move product, knocked $50 off the price for her. They'll come and install it, and they'll also haul away the old one for us. (Now would be a good time to start bailing the stinky water out of the old one...) Wheeeeee!

The idea that I have purchased an appliance has apparently not sunk in yet, and probably won't until I get the first bill. It's not that I can't afford to make the payments--I could have written a check for the whole shebang and owned it free and clear--but the point here was to build credit, and the reminder that I've kind of succeeded is heartening.