Blessed by the Megabookstore Gods

[alixtii]

Yesterday I bought:

Consequences of Prgagmatism, Richard Rorty
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche
X-Factor, Vol. 2: Life & Death Matters, Peter David
New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 4, Craig Kyle & Chris Yost
Ultimate Spiderman, Vol. 17: The Clone Saga, Brian Michael Bendis

I am

Comments

[booster17]

Layla Miller is wondeful, and gets some of the best lines in X-Factor, though I suspect my absolute favourite line (which reduces Madrox to paranoic panic for some time) is in the next volume alas.

And Ultimate Spiderwoman really needs to come back.

[alixtii]

In my version of reality, Ultimate Spiderwoman never leaves. I mean, really--such a tiny AU, and all of a sudden you have MJ/Jessica/Kitty/Peter orgies as the inevitable endpoint. (And I don't have to explain just how many of my kinks Jessica/Peter hits, do I?)

I'm already busy plotting.

[booster17]

I wish to read this. Pronto. Post-haste. In fact, right now.

Don't make me beg..... pls?

[alixtii]

I just need to decide which pairings would happen first. Kitty's bisexual in 616 (or so I am told), but there's no indication of that here (maybe Colossus stole her gay?)* YET (that's why we have fanfic). Jessica being in love with MJ is canon, and her being a lesbian makes as much sense as anything. Jess and Peter would have a lot of beautifully awkward UST living in the same house together. And Peter and MJ are dating at the point in canon.

*OMG, somebody has to icon Kitty confronting Ult!Colossus and demanding he give her her gay back.

[rushin_doll]

I think that Rorty will, in fact, be a great resource for such a project. I find him to be a very lucid writer, and he has this tendency to interesting structural trends within fields.

He's also rather smart, which helps.

I'm rather interested in seeing where you go with this project since my love of Wittgenstein knows no bounds.

Watching,
Ana

[alixtii]

I'm already drawing on Rorty fairly extensively--while I (like everyone., it seems) have my criticisms, his overall reading of the Wittgensteinian project is basically my own. But while I had to make the jump myself using Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Contingency, Irony, Solidarity to get to philosophy=literature, there's a few essays in this book that make the point much more explicitly and wonderfully.

[rushin_doll]

Oh, yes. Definitely. Coming back to Mirror of Nature after reading some of the essays, especially the two you mention, is a rather interesting experience. Or it was for me.

I don't know much about your philosophical background, but have you looked much at the early American's? I've always felt that Emerson and Thoreau both approached philosophy and literature as the same sort of thing. It's a refreshing sort of approach, to me at least, probably because my own background is so fundamentally tied up in rigid analytical approaches.

With a sudden craving to reread Philosophical Investigations,
Ana

[alixtii]

I don't know. I sort of feel like one has to have traveled through analytic philosophy to get what I really want.