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Pug
Oct 9, 2020, 7:44:05 AM10/9/20
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I have been trying to slog through a book I own which contains Thomas
Hardy's best short stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy
This slogging has been going on for decades, I kid you not. During
this latest Puddle of Mud BS, I picked up the book yet again... and...
yet again I put the book back down.
Holey moley, can Thomas Hardy pine. If Thomas Hardy himself is not a
piner, his characters in his short stories sure are. It seems every
short story in the book is about some love-sick man who is pining
after a lost love or a love that never was. The man is always broken
hearted about some woman or girl, and in the end usually the man, or
the woman, or both of them die.
Ok. I am not into the whole pining "look at me I am so heart broken"
mentality. Are there really that many interesting humans out there
that deserved to be pined over? Seriously? Nobody is that perfect, or
that loving, or that interesting (yup, I include myself in that
group), to be a candidate for pining over by another human.
In Thomas Hardy's case (especially in his short stories), he seems to
enjoy writing about men who fall in love with dullard women who won't
give them the time of day, which result in the total destruction of
the mens' emotions and lives.
Really?
Did dullard humans ever really pine after other dullard humans in the
past and do they still do it today?
I guess if one hangs out in Facebook groups you can find many people
pine, pine, pining away over other nonsensical "sign my yearbook"
egotistical people who won't give them the time of day.
I suppose the piner likes to pine, because he/she can say to the world
"nobody loves me" and wallow in self pity instead of actually just
living in the world and making themselves a better person (even if
they have to do it alone).
I suppose the pinee likes to be pined after because it gives him/her
power over the piner. The pinee can say to the world "everybody loves
me, I am a great person" instead of having to actually treat people
with respect.
It seems the majority of piners are males pining after females. In
Thomas Hardy's short stories, his male characters are fleshed out
(with their tortured emotions) and the female characters are always
some angelic, no-brain waif waiting to be saved, with little or no
character development.
Just like real life.
In my pathetic opinion, there are no humans deserving to be pined
after. We all suck. Why can't we all just treat each other with a
little respect, a little intelligence, and a little sense of humor.
That will go a long way in this world if everyone did it.
Nahhh...we would rather keep on pining.
Pug
10/9/20
https://vimeo.com/areyouguystwins
Hardy's best short stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy
This slogging has been going on for decades, I kid you not. During
this latest Puddle of Mud BS, I picked up the book yet again... and...
yet again I put the book back down.
Holey moley, can Thomas Hardy pine. If Thomas Hardy himself is not a
piner, his characters in his short stories sure are. It seems every
short story in the book is about some love-sick man who is pining
after a lost love or a love that never was. The man is always broken
hearted about some woman or girl, and in the end usually the man, or
the woman, or both of them die.
Ok. I am not into the whole pining "look at me I am so heart broken"
mentality. Are there really that many interesting humans out there
that deserved to be pined over? Seriously? Nobody is that perfect, or
that loving, or that interesting (yup, I include myself in that
group), to be a candidate for pining over by another human.
In Thomas Hardy's case (especially in his short stories), he seems to
enjoy writing about men who fall in love with dullard women who won't
give them the time of day, which result in the total destruction of
the mens' emotions and lives.
Really?
Did dullard humans ever really pine after other dullard humans in the
past and do they still do it today?
I guess if one hangs out in Facebook groups you can find many people
pine, pine, pining away over other nonsensical "sign my yearbook"
egotistical people who won't give them the time of day.
I suppose the piner likes to pine, because he/she can say to the world
"nobody loves me" and wallow in self pity instead of actually just
living in the world and making themselves a better person (even if
they have to do it alone).
I suppose the pinee likes to be pined after because it gives him/her
power over the piner. The pinee can say to the world "everybody loves
me, I am a great person" instead of having to actually treat people
with respect.
It seems the majority of piners are males pining after females. In
Thomas Hardy's short stories, his male characters are fleshed out
(with their tortured emotions) and the female characters are always
some angelic, no-brain waif waiting to be saved, with little or no
character development.
Just like real life.
In my pathetic opinion, there are no humans deserving to be pined
after. We all suck. Why can't we all just treat each other with a
little respect, a little intelligence, and a little sense of humor.
That will go a long way in this world if everyone did it.
Nahhh...we would rather keep on pining.
Pug
10/9/20
https://vimeo.com/areyouguystwins
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