Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
zunger

Part of the cultural elite...

I feel like some sort of parody of the "cultural elite." I'm sitting in a cafe, and my bag contains an iBook, the New York Times magazine and book review, and volume 1 of a new translation of the Zohar.
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anthologie

November 7 2004, 15:37:14 UTC 11 years ago

I feel that way sometimes. It's weird, yet pleasant.

johnnybrainwash

November 7 2004, 15:54:45 UTC 11 years ago

Does the Zohar make you the cultural elite these days? We should be so trendy.

Is it a full translation or an abridgement? The full set is pretty intimidating.

zunger

November 7 2004, 17:33:06 UTC 11 years ago

It's scheduled to be a full translation of the main part (commentaries on the Torah) in ten volumes, plus two volumes summary of the extra parts. So far, only the first two volumes are out; I just got them yesterday. It's looking like a very good critical edition.

japlady

November 7 2004, 16:12:08 UTC 11 years ago

wow, an ibook, I'm jealous...

and the zohar... DUDE! Don't tell me your doing Kabbalah....

zunger

November 7 2004, 17:36:11 UTC 11 years ago

I suspect that my hobbies and trades sound like some other sort of parody of a character. :)

japlady

November 7 2004, 19:15:20 UTC 11 years ago

Which would land you squarely in with the types of folks I like.. I like the kind of folks where a movie producer will go... "nah no one will believe it"

jholloway

November 8 2004, 08:23:46 UTC 11 years ago

One of the other guys at my college is doing an MPhil in modern English literature. At the matric dinner, he said that he couldn't go to the post-dinner drinks because he had to work the next day. He'd already told me that he'd been a professional jazz musician in New York for several years, so I was surprised that he had to get up early to work. I said, "what do you do?" He said, "I'm on the police force. I'm a detective."

zunger

November 8 2004, 11:04:38 UTC 11 years ago

Now that sounds like a character for a short story. Or perhaps a novel.

sdragon

November 7 2004, 20:04:33 UTC 11 years ago

Aren't you also a part of some secret organization of geniuses devoted to overthrowing The Man as well? Oy, you elitist intellectual, you!