Comments on: This is the frustration to guard against http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2009/01/this-is-the-frustration-to-guard-against/ Futures, Options, and Swaps (the weblog of Alan DeNiro) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leeroy Glinchy http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2009/01/this-is-the-frustration-to-guard-against/comment-page-1/#comment-411412 Leeroy Glinchy Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:28:59 +0000 http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/?p=919#comment-411412 When I feel down, I can't read classics. I get upset just picking them up so I put them down again. During these times, I turn to humor. Still, I can't but wonder why so many classics are so depressing almost as if literary greatness and humor are like water and oil. Which is funny when you think about _Don Quixote_ which was both funny and classic. Then there's the notion that ideas are just ideas, and you don't need to take any of them to heart. Just because you read a sad book, you don't have to be sad. This is true for me especially when I can't understand it. Then I just toss it into the wall. When I feel down, I can’t read classics. I get upset just picking them up so I put them down again. During these times, I turn to humor.

Still, I can’t but wonder why so many classics are so depressing almost as if literary greatness and humor are like water and oil. Which is funny when you think about _Don Quixote_ which was both funny and classic.

Then there’s the notion that ideas are just ideas, and you don’t need to take any of them to heart. Just because you read a sad book, you don’t have to be sad.

This is true for me especially when I can’t understand it. Then I just toss it into the wall.

]]> By: David Moles http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2009/01/this-is-the-frustration-to-guard-against/comment-page-1/#comment-407676 David Moles Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:16:38 +0000 http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/?p=919#comment-407676 I could be happy, if it weren't for all those goddamn <i>happy</i> people. I could be happy, if it weren’t for all those goddamn happy people.

]]>