the stuff about possibillianism is really interesting, probably because i've been aware of it for a while but had no idea there was an official term for it/people discussing this sort of stuff. professor alcock often accused me of writing too ambiguously. his review of one group presentation i took part in during my first year was something along the lines of, "i was on the edge of my seat until the end, trying to figure out where you were going with it and which side you were on..." i think we intended to sound objective, but apparently foxnews/msnbc and all the other dichotomies of our post-modern world have desensitized us from fact and fixated us on opinion. in a weird way, it's kind of comforting to know that we were 'cutting edge' in 2005, while he just represented an antiquated school tradition.
the sarasot-oem is lovely, in that you extracted the endearing aspects of our "tropical paradise." have you ever read camus' the stranger? rather than therapeutic, he's trained me to think of the sun as my conscious.
That's funny about the poem, I meant it to be ugly. Flat flat flat hot bleached out rotting dirty lowlands. Perhaps I'll try again.
And yeah. The thing that really got me about the interview was that when I first tuned in and didn't know who he was or what was going on and I heard him explain why he was writing -- because everyone else who was writing was polarized -- and that he thus wrote 40 mutually exclusive stories exploring the subject, I nearly drove my car off the road in a panic of OH NO SOMEONE ALREADY CREATED MY BABY. But then I realized that they were only short stories, only literature, not parallel and contradictory essays about the same subject, and so I kept driving.
But your point about Fox/etc is right on. Want to write an essay/group of essays about this? We could do it as a team.
PS - I wasn't cutting edge in 2005. I only got to New in 06. ;)
oh, the word choice is ugly (in a beautiful sense, if that makes sense), but i also see some signs of renewal and renaissance in it: nature's vain efforts to reverse our transformation of the swamp to parking lot, the blandness of the terrain matching the blandness of the architecture (and blandness of the people? ohhh, yes, i'll go that far), and the baking... well, it's like if you set an oven to the self-cleaning mode and it heats everything to some exorbitant temperature that causes the encrusted grease and grime to flake off by itself. ugly in the moment, but beautiful afterward
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i think we intended to sound objective, but apparently foxnews/msnbc and all the other dichotomies of our post-modern world have desensitized us from fact and fixated us on opinion. in a weird way, it's kind of comforting to know that we were 'cutting edge' in 2005, while he just represented an antiquated school tradition.
the sarasot-oem is lovely, in that you extracted the endearing aspects of our "tropical paradise." have you ever read camus' the stranger? rather than therapeutic, he's trained me to think of the sun as my conscious.
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And yeah. The thing that really got me about the interview was that when I first tuned in and didn't know who he was or what was going on and I heard him explain why he was writing -- because everyone else who was writing was polarized -- and that he thus wrote 40 mutually exclusive stories exploring the subject, I nearly drove my car off the road in a panic of OH NO SOMEONE ALREADY CREATED MY BABY. But then I realized that they were only short stories, only literature, not parallel and contradictory essays about the same subject, and so I kept driving.
But your point about Fox/etc is right on.
Want to write an essay/group of essays about this? We could do it as a team.
PS - I wasn't cutting edge in 2005. I only got to New in 06. ;)
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http://everlastingyea.livejournal.com/185548.html
specifically, the comments about banksy, but overall would be cool, too.
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