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I’m Not Sure I Like What This Says About Me
Posted by Kevin



You’re The Things They Carried!
by Tim O’Brien
Harsh and bitter, you tell it like it is. This usually comes in short,
dramatic spurts of spilling your guts in various ways. You carry a heavy load, and this
has weighed you down with all the horrors that humanity has to offer. Having seen and
done a great deal that you aren’t proud of, you have no choice but to walk forward,
trudging slowly through ongoing mud. In the next life, you will come back as a water
buffalo.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Now, I love this book, but I am not really that dark and cynical, am I? Plus, the idea of being a water buffalo doesn’t appeal that much to me.

Link via Lance Mannion, who got a worse book

February 5th, 2008 General, Bloggin, Books | 7 comments

7 Comments »

  1. tgirsch writes:

    I’m Watership Down, whatever that means…

    And the answer to your hopefully-rhetorical question is yes, you are. :)

    Comment 2/5/2008

  2. LarryE writes:

    I went through several variations of answers, some of them random, just to see what would happen - and it seems that they all lead to equally dark results.

    Comment 2/5/2008

  3. Ted writes:

    Hmm. I think the quiz is quite prophetic. You shall now address me as… Babar the King!

    Comment 2/5/2008

  4. digglahhh writes:

    Well, I wasn’t sure whether I should go with “huge” or “large”" for vocabulary, it’s a pretty relative question…

    So, I tried both ways. Large it is. Huge gave me Les Miserables. I wasn’t happy with that. So, I switched it back to large, and got Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”

    Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue, but you’re mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you’ve lost. People often have a hard time understanding you, but they have some vague sense that you must be brilliant anyway. Ultimately, you signify nothing.

    Now, I’m not sure if any of you get a vague sense I’m brilliant, but I know my friends with drinking problems do. Other than that, this is spot-on.

    Ultimately I signify nothing - how many times has TG told me that… I wonder if that is supposed to mean that I signify “nothing” or if it’s supposed to be read as signifying “Nothing…”

    Comment 2/6/2008

  5. tgirsch writes:

    Ultimately I signify nothing - how many times has TG told me that

    Huh? What?

    Comment 2/6/2008

  6. digglahhh writes:

    I was being facetious.

    I’ve often gotten the “so general as to amount to meaningless” retorts when I make arguments that center on the deconstruction of the language surrounding an issue, as opposed to the more practical implications of the issue itself.

    That’s all I was referring too.

    Comment 2/7/2008

  7. tgirsch writes:

    Saying that your working definition of a particular term is too broad to be terribly useful is hardly the same thing as saying that you “signify nothing…”

    Comment 2/7/2008

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