Made it back from Mexico City this afternoon. The only unhappy event during the trip was finishing reading the massive Peloponnesian War and failing to find a good English bookstore. I ended up settling for an Agatha Christie novel: Lord Edgware Dies (1933). A married Peruvian woman sitting next to me disagreed with this discourse by Hercule Poirot, bachelor detective:
“Often I have observed that it is a great misfortune for a man to have a wife who loves him. She creates the scenes of jealousy, she makes him look ridiculous, she insists on having all his time and attention. Ah! non! it is not the bed of roses.”
And combining the earlier themes of MIT students and ghetto humor, this just in from a 6.171 student…
“Yo Mama so stupid, she took a rigid body mechanics class because she wanted to meet hot guys.”
(We will leave this contributor anonymous so that the MIT administration does not begin disciplinary proceedings…)
My favorite joke along these lines is: “Yo mama so stupid, she failed the Turing test!”
Always take more books with you than you will be able to read on a trip, That way, its impossible to run out of reading.
Whera are the pictures? I’m assuming you took many. Please, please please…
Philip is not “into” photography anymore it seems. May be digital cameras took all the fun out of it. Remember old days when you had to wait a week for a roll to come back from processing?
This married Peruvian woman was all wrong and clearly biased. The only thing I would add is that loving men likely share the same flaw, and it’s not marriage-specific. Something about love confuses most people into thinking it’s about jealousy and codependency. Warped virtues… no doubt the source of millions of books.
Of course, people in truly loving relationships are less easy to spot than those in more unbalanced ones. I wonder why I occasionally get so polarized when I visit here. 😉
This Peruvian woman would have a major heart attack if she read The Dying Animal by Philip Roth.
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