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dark steve
secretary of good times
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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:35 pm |
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| (failed) Kubrick adaptation |
whoa hey back up buddy |
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dark steve
secretary of good times
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Location: long live the new flesh
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:36 am |
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Well it's not a serious book, but that's not to say that it's not affecting.
Dark Steve could probably explain why it's a good book better than I can. |
oh jeez
I'm actually more fond of DFW as an essayist than a novelist; I can't really say much on the accuracy of descriptivism/prescriptivism one per se, because I don't know the territory particularly well (other than to say that the languagehat guy comes off like a fucking lunatic, and just skimming, I can say that some of his objections are ludicrously obtuse) , but his news-magazine type stuff is wonderful, I also especially like "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness," which explained a whole lot about my academic experience to me. As for Infinite Jest, there's no way in hell that I want to get into it; I'd point out, however, that it's something to "dig," not something to "get." |
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dark steve
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:57 am |
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| "Parody" might not be the right word; It probably seems less absurd than calling it a 700 page composition exercise, though (which in turn sounds less absurd than whim). Would seem sort of disingenuous considering his stance on irony, I think, though. |
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dark steve
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:56 pm |
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a series of meaningless ejaculations!
For the life of me, I can't believe that Hesse is still print. |
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dark steve
secretary of good times
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:29 am |
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| I am going start Against the Day. |
What a fool I was for thinking I could read this book.
I just finished The Shock Doctrine. It was much better than No Logo. Man, Milton Friedman's followers sure messed up a lot of countries! :oops: |
man fuck you, reading naomi klein and talking about stuff
The Shock Doctrine boils down to the idea that the entire world at every level is run by a shadowy cabal of villainous jewish bankers economists and corporate interests who personally engineer every single war or disaster that has ever occurred in order to spread free trade (free trade being, as every good marxist academic knows, the single most evil thing in the universe). The book is a ludicrous conspiracy theory. Here it is being casually torn to pieces on the basis of it's wild factual, methodological, and analytical irregularities in (if you can stomach that 'ol neocon standard ) The New Republic. |
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dark steve
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:45 pm |
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wait you're supposed to do WHAT for your thesis?
That level of self-reflexivity sounds... corrosive? |
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