More Wisdom - Young Jeezy and Milan Kundera
Snowman bitch, I don't even wear the same draws
Flat screens on my walls, flows look like bowling balls
I know Big Meeks, the real Big Meeks
It's over for you clowns soon as my nigga hit them streets
I see you ridin' homie, but that ain't hard enough
You know me I might pull up in an armored truck
I stack big faces, I stack small faces
I stack all faces, swear it's white as pillow cases
I got a dirty mouth but my kitchen's clean
Them folks ridin' hid the pots and the triple beams
Hit the Dodge spot I must've copped six Magnums
Marriott suite, I must've used six magnums
Feds on my tail, you know them boys'll six flag ya
Testarossa ride, like I'm on a coaster ride
Sheet mix, remix still talkin' white bricks
Two million records sold and I'm still talkin' white shit
That's Jeezy's verse from the remix of Rick Ross' "Hustlin". It's been in my head all day and I just felt the need to get that out of my system. Phew.
I'm reading Milan Kundera's "The Unberable Lightness of Being" at the moment and I've decided that I like the book. After initially fearing that I may be bored by it, I've realised that, despite it's complete lack of anything you could call "action", it is nonetheless very interesting.
This book is the thinking man's Sex and the City. Set in various places around Europe, but following the lives of two Czechs in the time of the Soviet Occupation following the Prague screens. The characters of the novel go through a variety of relationship issues, many of which deal with their personal infidelities and the differences between physical and romantic love.
The novel is heavily philosophical, grounded primarily in existentialism, Kundera uses his characters as pawns, manipulating their feelings and the situations within which they place themselves as a vehicle for his philosophical musings.
The book's basis is the idea that each of us has one life to live which is never to be repeated and "einmal ist keinmal" ("once is never" ie. what happens once may as well not happen at all) therefore rendering our decisions, and our lives, insignifcant. This insignificance of our decisions is a "lightness", because it leaves us free to do whatever we should choose without fear of consequenes, however, grappling with the insignificance of it all is also "unbearable".
Practically every page presents a new idea or way of looking at things, some of which I'd never thought of before and many of which I had considered, felt or thought about. This makes the book very appealing but also needing a very committed reader (because you have to concentrate on it to get the most out of it).
Because the book is literally teeming with interesting ideas, I won't be putting any of Kundera's wisdom up here in quote-form, but I do suggest you check the book out, especially if you're interested in the philosophies of love and life.
posted by LX @ 11:29 PM
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