Weekly reading/watching meme

[petronia]

What are you reading/watching now?

I'm beginning to think I ought to do this meme on Mondays rather than Fridays; I usually start books on weekends. (The resolution for this weekend is to finish the stuff I've left hanging.) In any case, the actual answer today is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which has been my

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[flemmings]

public intellectuals who made stepwise arguments in clear English; no Derridean pretzeling

And this is why one loves the 18th and 19th century thinkers. They do not pretzel.

"the parents of Brett Easton Ellis's characters"

I've never wanted to read Ellis' work-- and anyway he was in kindergarten when I read Didion's-- but I will believe this. Didion's California, fic or non-fic, always felt like one of the nastier hells on earth.

[petronia]

I'd believe it too. I have some of her fiction to go, but I'll probably take a break. XD

[sub_divided]

But for the point to stick, the super and his/her alter ego need to be the same person; the latter has to be morally responsible for the former.

Great paragraph, and I especially enjoyed this line :D

[petronia]

I think the paragraph needs another pass, actually XD (I rewrote it twice! I was very hungry by the end), but well. It's to Marvel's credit that they actually got me to give the Hulk some thought.