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I read Cat in the Hat
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Dr Cheeto posted:I read Cat in the Hat i didnt finish it. too high concept for me
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I like the part in the great dictator speech where he saysquote:Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives - tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! on veterans day i usually tip my fedora to veterans but deep down i'm  as can be becuase i recognize the truth about the military 
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Cubone posted:uh hysterical realist aka recherché postmodernist? it's a genre I looked up the word recherche and I think it's a good label the focused and delicate precision with which the narrator expounds on minutiae, mundanity, the absurd, and the vulgar/profane, is similar to the "hysterical" social phenomenon of saying too much to rid oneself of "awkward silence". One feature of our embeddedness in language is that we are always overdetermined. There is always room for our words to mean more than you intend. This can lead to the anxiety of being misinterpreted or persecuted and the feeling of a need to clarify. In effect, the surplus meaning which is the object of that anxiety comes through as the author seems to squash any room for narrative silence or space where the reader can participate. I think if you like fiction that gives you a lot of excellent imagery but also lets you fill in a lot with your imagination by not spelling everything out, you might find IJ off putting like "when are they gonna get to the point?" John Cage I believe said "the music is in the silence" and really incorporated this mindset in his work, up to the climax of a piece composed of several minutes of silence. I recently read some Hemingway stories and seeing his negative use of semantic space is brilliant and I think similar to Cage's philosophy. If that's the case that Hemingway can be compared to Cage, then I would argue that Infinite Jest is like high brow pschedelic death metal Commie NedFlanders fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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Nov 13, 2015 14:29
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Really glad I went Infiniti instead of Lexus. The extra horse power and better seats are a nice way to pamper myself after a good day's work
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Nov 13, 2015 14:35
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Hello  
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Nov 13, 2015 14:40
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I'm neither cool nor smart but sometimes people treat me like I am, I was worried for w while that I was actually "retarded" and everyone was being nice
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Nov 13, 2015 14:46
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Booblord Zagats posted:Really glad I went Infiniti instead of Lexus. The extra horse power and better seats are a nice way to pamper myself after a good day's work Nothing quite like Japanese luxury, is there?
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Nov 13, 2015 14:57
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Nov 13, 2015 14:58
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corpuscollossus posted:Nothing quite like Japanese luxury, is there? Honestly it's less about the luxury and more about the car having a really strong yet controlled and smooth acceleration. I test drove some BMWs and Mercs, but they just felt so off-kilter. I liked the Jag I drove a lot, but the body roll it had was just outside of what I was willing to accept.
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Nov 13, 2015 15:02
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BUT MY GERMAN ENGINEERING 
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Nov 13, 2015 15:16
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Not posting in this thread.
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Nov 13, 2015 15:59
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i like your style, OP i would like to get to know you better
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Nov 13, 2015 16:00
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i really like teh rick and morty show
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Nov 13, 2015 16:07
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wow I never knew but walruses are way cooler than sharks
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Nov 13, 2015 16:09
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Calling out the op on his smarts/coolness, due to rampant misuse of commas.
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