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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)

Review	Community Rating	Total Readings
Category: Discussion read 'em and weep Reviewed: Top Ten Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books Rating:	Very useful	664 Created: 13/11/01 Last Updated: 13/11/01
bells and smells Reviewed: Religion Rating:	Very useful	52 Created: 01/11/01 Last Updated: 01/11/01
love, love me doo yoo? Reviewed: Patriotism Rating:	Useful	64 Created: 22/10/01 Last Updated: 23/10/01
there goes a tenner Reviewed: Top Ten Authors Rating:	Very useful	524 Created: 04/10/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
jillmurphy - alifeindooyoo Reviewed: Top Ten Unreadable/Unfinishable Books Rating:	Very useful	107 Created: 25/09/01 Last Updated: 26/09/01
grandpa stood on the top of the WTC Reviewed: Attacks on America Rating:	Very useful	51 Created: 11/09/01 Last Updated: 11/09/01
just like prostitution Reviewed: Has reality TV gone too far? Rating:	Very useful	71 Created: 06/09/01 Last Updated: 06/09/01
Category: Movie DVD Mel's bells! Reviewed: The Year of Living Dangerously (DVD) Rating:	Very useful	106 Created: 07/11/01 Last Updated: 07/11/01
In the presence of evil Reviewed: Absence Of Malice (DVD) Rating:	Very useful	553 Created: 07/11/01 Last Updated: 07/11/01
The guilty go free Reviewed: Crimes And Misdemeanors (DVD) Rating:	Very useful	453 Created: 30/10/01 Last Updated: 15/11/01
Koyaanisqatsi - no snappy title needed Reviewed: Koyaanisqatsi (DVD) Rating:	Very useful	343 Created: 30/10/01 Last Updated: 15/11/01
canned-canned Reviewed: Moulin Rouge! (DVD) Rating:	Very useful	46 Created: 03/10/01 Last Updated: 03/10/01
Category: Printed Book mea culpa, mea culpa Reviewed: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Rating:	Very useful	429 Created: 31/10/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
Vor blimey - stories for boys written by a girl! Reviewed: The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold Rating:	Very useful	57 Created: 26/10/01 Last Updated: 13/11/01
Veiled lesbianism Reviewed: Orlando - Virginia Woolf Rating:	Very useful	282 Created: 22/10/01 Last Updated: 22/10/01
Hmmm... ho horror. Reviewed: Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Rating:	Very useful	427 Created: 10/10/01 Last Updated: 19/10/01
It gets everywhere Reviewed: The Human Stain - Philip Roth Rating:	Very useful	346 Created: 04/10/01 Last Updated: 04/10/01
been read Reviewed: Being Dead - Jim Crace Rating:	Very useful	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 Rating:	Very useful	362 Created: 18/09/01 Last Updated: 16/10/01
Vice is Nice - what rhymes with Cannes? Reviewed: Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard Rating:	Very useful	36 Created: 12/09/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
Brains, breasts, whisky and telephones Reviewed: Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Rating:	Very useful	520 Created: 12/09/01 Last Updated: 12/09/01
Sex and death - no rock and roll Reviewed: The Dying Animal - Philip Roth Rating:	Very useful	157 Created: 11/09/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
Handy book Reviewed: The Fourth Hand - John Irving Rating:	Very useful	78 Created: 06/09/01 Last Updated: 16/04/05
Which sex are you? Reviewed: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin Rating:	Very useful	148 Created: 05/09/01 Last Updated: 13/12/04
Welcome to the 21st century, Charles Reviewed: Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard Rating:	Very useful	82 Created: 03/09/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
CRASH! BOOM! BANG! Reviewed: Crash - J.G. Ballard Rating:	Very useful	64 Created: 03/09/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
Category: National Park International Holm is where the hart is Reviewed: Stockholm Rating:	Very useful	281 Created: 19/10/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
Not the sausage! A weekend in Vienna Reviewed: Vienna Rating:	Very useful	199 Created: 19/09/01 Last Updated: 02/11/01
Category: Transport International swings and roundabouts Reviewed: Public Transport in general Rating:	Useful	29 Created: 17/10/01 Last Updated: 17/10/01
Category: Archive Music eat the music Reviewed: Kate Bush in general Rating:	Very useful	57 Created: 07/09/01 Last Updated: 18/01/05

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Member Statistics

Member since	28/08/01

Premium Reviews	35
Express Reviews	1
Comments Written	319
Reviews Rated	582
Crowns	11

Community Ratings	623
Very useful	551
Useful	65
Somewhat useful	7

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