Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Teaser Tuesday (15 March)

Teaser Tuesday again, from Should Be Reading.

"People don't have to lease expensive office space in top-end buildings like Croker Concourse, but they can't defer their food consumption function."
"Can't defer their food consumption function?"
"They have to eat. Every day."

p. 74, A Man in Full. Tom Wolfe

Next one isn't censor-friendly --

What would Epictetus have done with this bunch? What could he have done? How could you apply his lessons two thousand  years later, in this grimy gray pod,  this pigsty full of beasts who grunted about motherfuckin' this and motherfuckin' that and turning boys into B-cats and jookin' punks? And yet...were they really any worse than Nero and his Imperial Guard? Epictetus spoke to him! -- from half a world and two thousand years away! The answer was somewhere in these pages!

p. 410-411,  A Man in Full.
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10 comments:

  1. JenniferMarch 15, 2011 at 1:04 AM

    Excellent Teasers! My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2011/03/teaser-tuesdays-home-to-woefield.html

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  2. Aisle BMarch 15, 2011 at 4:21 AM

    hmmmm defer.... nope... just can't do it... MUST EAT! :)

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  3. MargMarch 15, 2011 at 4:39 AM

    Usually multiple times every day!

    Here is my teaser for this week.

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  4. jlshallMarch 15, 2011 at 5:02 AM

    Two fine teasers! I've got this one on my TBR list - I always enjoy Tom Wolfe.

    Here's my tease.

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  5. Beth FMarch 15, 2011 at 5:42 AM

    And usually more than is good for us!

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  6. Laurel-Rain SnowMarch 15, 2011 at 6:51 AM

    Great teasers....thanks for sharing.

    Here's MY TUESDAY MEMES POST

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  7. Sandra NachlingerMarch 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    I've read this book and highly recommend it. GREAT teasers.

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  8. AnonymousMarch 15, 2011 at 1:15 PM

    Interesting teasers, stop and see mine.

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  9. Michelle VMarch 15, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    Both great teasers! Here's mine:

    http://michellevsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/teaser-tuesday-mar-15.html

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  10. AprilMarch 15, 2011 at 2:11 PM

    Oh, great teasers!!

    Here is mine:

    http://www.cafeofdreamsbookreviews.com/2011/03/teaser-tuesday-315.html

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