Actually, I think his writing style is wonderful! I haven't made it past the third paragraph and I'm already finding myself aroused by words like dessicated and aesthetics and the reference to Elaine Scarry's book, which I read and enjoyed, despite the fact that J.M. Bernstein made fun of her reductive oversimplification of Kant's Critique of Judgment (but then Bernstein is like wading through a turgid quagmire of muck. He is too brilliant to understand how the rest of us need a moment to think before proceeding.)
Okay, I'll dampen the literature major in me and read for my beloved Effie now.
Oh Josh, how can I not love you with your references to Botticelli's Venus, Ovid's Metamophoses, Homer's Odysseus, Dorian Gray and Jabberwocky? Stop stroking my intellectual privates.
As for Zac, I love the self-reflexivity here, how Zac distinguishes Zac as a social contruction of Disney, an image, a being-for-someone, and himself, his being-in-himself and being-for-himself, albeit not in those words. I get the sense he is craving self re-invention both as an actor and as a person, and as he moves forward, he is getting a sense of what is right for him.
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And Awww at the Chris mention. I adore whenever they hang out
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She's talking about us, you know.
This guy is way too educated to be writing about movie stars.
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Okay, I'll dampen the literature major in me and read for my beloved Effie now.
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As for Zac, I love the self-reflexivity here, how Zac distinguishes Zac as a social contruction of Disney, an image, a being-for-someone, and himself, his being-in-himself and being-for-himself, albeit not in those words. I get the sense he is craving self re-invention both as an actor and as a person, and as he moves forward, he is getting a sense of what is right for him.
Good for Zac!
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