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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel, and Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was twice as sloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates himself was permanently pissed. John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a cask of brandy every day. Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle etc. Can't remember the rest - sorry.

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Reviews by demosthenes (last 20)

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Category: Discussion
Crown read 'em and weep
Reviewed: Top Ten Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books
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664
Created: 13/11/01
Last Updated: 13/11/01

bells and smells
Reviewed: Religion
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52
Created: 01/11/01
Last Updated: 01/11/01

love, love me doo yoo?
Reviewed: Patriotism
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64
Created: 22/10/01
Last Updated: 23/10/01

Crown there goes a tenner
Reviewed: Top Ten Authors
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524
Created: 04/10/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

jillmurphy - alifeindooyoo
Reviewed: Top Ten Unreadable/Unfinishable Books
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107
Created: 25/09/01
Last Updated: 26/09/01

grandpa stood on the top of the WTC
Reviewed: Attacks on America
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51
Created: 11/09/01
Last Updated: 11/09/01

just like prostitution
Reviewed: Has reality TV gone too far?
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71
Created: 06/09/01
Last Updated: 06/09/01

Category: Movie DVD
Mel's bells!
Reviewed: The Year of Living Dangerously (DVD)
Rating:

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106
Created: 07/11/01
Last Updated: 07/11/01

In the presence of evil
Reviewed: Absence Of Malice (DVD)
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553
Created: 07/11/01
Last Updated: 07/11/01

The guilty go free
Reviewed: Crimes And Misdemeanors (DVD)
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453
Created: 30/10/01
Last Updated: 15/11/01

Koyaanisqatsi - no snappy title needed
Reviewed: Koyaanisqatsi (DVD)
Rating:

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343
Created: 30/10/01
Last Updated: 15/11/01

canned-canned
Reviewed: Moulin Rouge! (DVD)
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46
Created: 03/10/01
Last Updated: 03/10/01

Category: Printed Book
mea culpa, mea culpa
Reviewed: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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429
Created: 31/10/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Crown Vor blimey - stories for boys written by a girl!
Reviewed: The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
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57
Created: 26/10/01
Last Updated: 13/11/01

Veiled lesbianism
Reviewed: Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Rating:

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282
Created: 22/10/01
Last Updated: 22/10/01

Hmmm... ho horror.
Reviewed: Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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427
Created: 10/10/01
Last Updated: 19/10/01

It gets everywhere
Reviewed: The Human Stain - Philip Roth
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346
Created: 04/10/01
Last Updated: 04/10/01

been read
Reviewed: Being Dead - Jim Crace
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82
Created: 18/09/01
Last Updated: 18/09/01

Innocence lost: paradise regained?
Reviewed: In Praise of the Stepmother - Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane
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362
Created: 18/09/01
Last Updated: 16/10/01

Crown Vice is Nice - what rhymes with Cannes?
Reviewed: Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard
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36
Created: 12/09/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Brains, breasts, whisky and telephones
Reviewed: Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
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520
Created: 12/09/01
Last Updated: 12/09/01

Crown Sex and death - no rock and roll
Reviewed: The Dying Animal - Philip Roth
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157
Created: 11/09/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Crown Handy book
Reviewed: The Fourth Hand - John Irving
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78
Created: 06/09/01
Last Updated: 16/04/05

Which sex are you?
Reviewed: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
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148
Created: 05/09/01
Last Updated: 13/12/04

Crown Welcome to the 21st century, Charles
Reviewed: Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
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82
Created: 03/09/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Crown CRASH! BOOM! BANG!
Reviewed: Crash - J.G. Ballard
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64
Created: 03/09/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Category: National Park International
Crown Holm is where the hart is
Reviewed: Stockholm
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281
Created: 19/10/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Crown Not the sausage! A weekend in Vienna
Reviewed: Vienna
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199
Created: 19/09/01
Last Updated: 02/11/01

Category: Transport International
swings and roundabouts
Reviewed: Public Transport in general
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29
Created: 17/10/01
Last Updated: 17/10/01

Category: Archive Music
eat the music
Reviewed: Kate Bush in general
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57
Created: 07/09/01
Last Updated: 18/01/05

 
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