Nabokov on the first moon landing

>Arthur Miller
>talks about "social issues," money and economic loss

You know who's behind this, right?

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What is this nigger babbling about

>starting off with basic bitch alliteration
Wow so amazing so good wow

You can't poet, I see.

youtube.com/watch?v=e5smPcN8AoE

Need mo afro combs fo dem programs

FORMIDABLE MEDIOCRITY

He really was a pleb.

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"palpating" is one of his go to words
Im onto you Vlad

he probably just used it once in Ada but still

>violinist

Nabokov was a sensual guy

probably some reporter was pestering him. guess he was a visual artist foremost

but dat prose doe.

Why is the negro such a petulant, invidious creature? Man conquers the moon and they think that money should have gone to putting all of Harlem into Air Jordans

He seems like a total cock

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>writer-writing
Enjoy never reading anything by Hank Moody

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Why is the privileged middle-class white male pleb so ignorant of the plight of all those who are forced to the pavement of this failing societal machine?
Would the noose finally reach you?

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Trump 1948

the irony of those slamming the Apollo era government for not caring about the poor is that LBJ probably did more to advance a socially progressive agenda than any other US president in history.

Jokes on you I don't even know who that is

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>There are no limits left
Except those that are too expensive, Mr. economist

Anarchism 2048

Doggo thread

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He's just mad cuz we got there before the Russians.

he hated the soviets

why do you think he left and never came back

12 year old boy BTFO of all these pretentious artists who pretend to be uninterested

Yep.

>Good pay and you find something new everytime you go up.
The most salient point in the thread.

Dude was just a pathetic self hating russkie

I love egocentrics: if the feat is not my own than who cares about it?

Quality post

This and Nabokov's are the only ones worth reading

i hoped some of the greats had written something like this.

He loved Russians

While reading this I wondered why the hell have we never heard of this writer... hadn't looked at the caption...

wow what a fucking cool outsider this guy is

he was 88 or 89 when he wrote that. I guess at that age you just don't care

After reading this vapid response I was wondering why this post hadn't been deleted... then I remembered the report button.

Just jelly he's not American

Black people are incredibly narcissistic

but the moon landing was a hoax

...treading on the soil of a film set in florida, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and shame of the event, what if they know... :^)

>The voyager is always man

what an mcp!

This is interesting, OP. Are you posting it all?

Yea does he always write prose that calls this much attention to itself?

that's actually a nice way to look at things

>light of my life, fire of my loins!!!
I never cared much for that bit. I wonder if people think that's his best or something, because they are always quoting it and shit

related

they probably haven't read past page 10

Der Spiegel got a little flustered toward the end there.

based

Full version of Nabokov's answer.

Oh, "impressed" is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery. Of course, I rented a television set to watch every moment of their marvelous adventure. That gentle little minuet that despite their awkward suits the two men danced with such grace to the tune of lunar gravity was a lovely sight. It was also a moment when a flag means to one more than a flag usually does. I am puzzled and pained by the fact that the English weeklies ignored the absolutely overwhelming excitement of the adventure, the strange sensual exhilaration of palpating those precious pebbles, of seeing our marbled globe in the black sky, of feeling along one's spine the shiver and wonder of it. After all, Englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. Why then drag in such irrelevant matters as wasted dollars and power politics?

I've read my share of Nabokov and the intro to Lolita is easily one of the most memorable things he's written

He's really focused on those huts

That's brilliant

>I'd like to be an astronaut. It sounds like a pretty good job to me. Good pay...

that guy is adorable

indeed

they will have to be specially insulated or something

Thanks I didn't know there was more.

probably knew it was a hoax

I just lost respect for him

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With Whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And Whitey's on the moon

I can't pay no doctor bills
But Whitey's on the moon
Ten years from now I'll be paying still
While Whitey's on the moon

You know, the man just upped my rent last night
Cause Whitey's on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But Whitey's on the moon

I wonder why he's uppin' me?
Cause Whitey's on the moon?
Well i was already given him fifty a week
And now Whitey's on the moon

Taxes takin' my whole damn check
The junkies make me a nervous wreck
The price of food is goin up
And if all that crap wasn't enough
A rat done bit my sister nell
With Whitey on the moon

Moon landing

It’s natural the Boys should whoop it up for
so huge a phallic triumph, an adventure
it would not have occurred to women
to think worth while, made possible only

because we like huddling in gangs and knowing
the exact time: yes, our sex may in fairness
hurrah the deed, although the motives
that primed it were somewhat less than menschlich.

A grand gesture. But what does it period?
What does it osse? We were always adroiter
with objects than lives, and more facile
at courage than kindness: from the moment

the first flint was flaked this landing was merely
a matter of time. But our selves, like Adam’s,
still don’t fit us exactly, modern
only in this – our lack of decorum.

Homer’s heroes were certainly no braver
than our Trio, but more fortunate: Hector
was excused the insult of having
his valor covered by television.

Worth going to see? I can well believe it.
Worth seeing? Mneh! I once rode through a desert
and was not charmed: give me a watered
lively garden, remote from blatherers

about the New, the von Brauns and their ilk, where
on August mornings I can count the morning
glories, where to die has a meaning,
and no engine can shift my perspective.

Unsmudged, thank God, my Moon still queens the Heavens
as She ebbs and fulls, a Presence to glop at,
Her Old Man, made of grit not protein,
still visits my Austrian several

with His old detachment, and the old warnings
still have power to scare me: Hybris comes to
an ugly finish, Irreverence
is a greater oaf than Superstition.

Our apparatniks will continue making
the usual squalid mess called History:
all we can pray for is that artists,
chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.

August 1969

– W. H. Auden

see

pretty insightful for a rapist

needs a rimshot at the end

i knew the negress would trifle b4 i even started reading

What utilitarian results are there of walking on a barren rock in space? He's trying too hard to sound pretentious.

maybe the prospect of one day traveling to a destination (Mars) that could feasibly provide an alternative to a dying earth? Fucking idiot

unlike two other negores, who were concerned that the moon hoax landing cost too much (and whose point of view eventually won for decades since then), this female negro was just a vapid bad poet trying to get some media coverage

>not writing a paragraph about it specifying you don't care about the utilitarian aspect at the end
lol PLEB

Do you think he was alluding to speciousness of human tribalism in space?

Most adorable thing ever.

I don't know, I thought it was strange he used the term huts though.

Wow, all the jews and the blacks couldn't get over their petty problems for 1 second to enjoy a triumph of the animal Man. How surprising.

A woman named Margaret Hamilton helped with a large portion of the software. Nice try but muh penis gender psychology doesn't work.

Koestler was a rapist?

>A woman named Margaret Hamilton helped with a large portion of the software.
just like ada lovelace, by being a secretary who punched punch-cards?

>States, United. Moon Landing. A triviality. A non-event. Means absolutely nothing to me.

KEK

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