Matt, you know I'm a supporter. I will read you until the day I die. I also think that Get Lit and Brad Pearce are a wonderful addition to Racket News, but...
Dostoyevsky's Demons, again? I'm game for these tombs of literature, but imo 2 or 3 shows max on each work. I can't tune in, man! Even though I want to see both of you take on literature like you do, I'm spent on Demons. I'd light a copy on fire right now if I wasn't so lazy!
EDIT: I just looked up "tombs of literature" to see if I chose the correct form of "tombs", and it turns out that in my sentence, I could've use either "tombs" or "tomes". However, I concede that "tomes" would've been more appropriate. Question: What if my words were translated by a surviving nomad human colony ten, twenty, thousand years from now? How would they translate my use of "tombs" or "tomes"? This is my pet peeve with translation of old texts, especially biblical scripture. What a whole bunch of freakin guesswork! I think there is a lot to be learned from old scripture, but it's still profoundly vulnerable to bias through translation.
I haven't had a chance to listen to any of the conversations on Demons, but am looking forward to them when I have a chance to read it.
I don't see how you cover a long work like Demons without spanning over several weeks -- many people are too busy to read more than 100 pages a week or so.
You're right, but aaahhhhh! You should listen to them, because you'll likely enjoy them. They are good and you are right, but... aaaahhhh! I've been compelled to skip class, head for the woods, and get high!
Heh! There is a little redwood tree grove that serves as a Vietnam memorial in a university near me. Closest thing I can get to the woods in my patch of suburbia. I enjoy sitting underneath them and reading very much. There are just enough trees to pretend I'm in a forest.
But haven't gotten high in decades, as reality has been hallucinogenic enough!
Brad - I appreciate your intelligent and well considered insights.
But, please stop interrupting. You will have a chance to say what you need to say and we will all be listening!
Matt, you know I'm a supporter. I will read you until the day I die. I also think that Get Lit and Brad Pearce are a wonderful addition to Racket News, but...
Dostoyevsky's Demons, again? I'm game for these tombs of literature, but imo 2 or 3 shows max on each work. I can't tune in, man! Even though I want to see both of you take on literature like you do, I'm spent on Demons. I'd light a copy on fire right now if I wasn't so lazy!
EDIT: I just looked up "tombs of literature" to see if I chose the correct form of "tombs", and it turns out that in my sentence, I could've use either "tombs" or "tomes". However, I concede that "tomes" would've been more appropriate. Question: What if my words were translated by a surviving nomad human colony ten, twenty, thousand years from now? How would they translate my use of "tombs" or "tomes"? This is my pet peeve with translation of old texts, especially biblical scripture. What a whole bunch of freakin guesswork! I think there is a lot to be learned from old scripture, but it's still profoundly vulnerable to bias through translation.
I haven't had a chance to listen to any of the conversations on Demons, but am looking forward to them when I have a chance to read it.
I don't see how you cover a long work like Demons without spanning over several weeks -- many people are too busy to read more than 100 pages a week or so.
You're right, but aaahhhhh! You should listen to them, because you'll likely enjoy them. They are good and you are right, but... aaaahhhh! I've been compelled to skip class, head for the woods, and get high!
Heh! There is a little redwood tree grove that serves as a Vietnam memorial in a university near me. Closest thing I can get to the woods in my patch of suburbia. I enjoy sitting underneath them and reading very much. There are just enough trees to pretend I'm in a forest.
But haven't gotten high in decades, as reality has been hallucinogenic enough!
Maybe "tombstones" of literature?
Perfect! It would always be understood as a metaphor. Thanks!
I just couldn’t finish your comment
I do tend to ramble. I guess I was just trying to fill the white space, and there's still an awful lot of it.
the white space can speak for itself