Posts by recordari
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think the social value of people going to university and studying literature, philosophy etc is currently a negative value, since the net result is generally a person who is unable to communicate their ideas about art/philosophy/whatever to a non-academic audience.
What bollocks <cough>.
+1
And what Danielle said.
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Bad food jokes aside, the CD video footage of the red zone made it look uncomprehendingly bad enough, from what I saw. And the ongoing sagas people are having with ECNZ and their discrepancy with insurers, builders and plain human decency would be driving good people to the brink of... well to the brink.
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Radiation: Signing off, moving on, in reply to Emma Hart,
Oh, totally. I'm surprised the Red Zone isn't constantly besieged by film directors, honestly.
And Nattō air strikes?
All the best Fiona. Seems I might have missed most of your work, as I came in after a certain Tennis injury, but will look to the Listener...
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Let's shoehorn a long book of great delight into this conversation: Kant and the Platypus.
Or even Baudolino. Who needs zombies when you can have a blemmyae?
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I was going to airdrop Borges into the conversation, thank you for sparing me the trouble.
If you could check my browser history (which I sincerely hope you can't) you would see The Aleph & Other Stories. Why not some Casares to boot?
"The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows."
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Jolisa,
Novel-reading: turning good mothers into bad ones since ages ago.
Ahem. “What volume is that damn TV on, I’m trying to read!” “Go to your rooms separately and stop yelling!” “Dad, we share a room”. “Don’t come at me with your adolescent logic, go to your room!”
shaggy readers emerge from the shadows and into the clearing
The Shaggy Readers Book Club. Where do I sign up?
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Foremost among which that it’s a series of cliches dressed as an argument in search of its evidence.
It seems to me ‘we’ are reading more than ever. At least on my part there’s always a book or three on the go; these blogs; other blogs; 140 character haiku exchanges; learning what words like cathect really mean. If this Google eyed world is making us shallow, then we’re giving an awful lot of face time to trivial pursuits.
What does ‘losing the ability to read deeply’ even mean? I’m totally inclined to bury myself in fiction. In fact there’s a 992 page ‘fairytale’ waiting for me now.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Islander,
The photo of Andris Apse & Lynne Bond was taken by David Alexander
Umm, doh! On my part. Thanks again. Have heard of David Alexander. Nice photos on his site too.
Now, about those books...
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Ngaire BookieMonster,
If it wasn’t for the afore-twitter-mentioned burnout
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Islander,
Andris normally does landscapes (in my humble judgement he is ANZ’s best landscape photographer ever.)
Thank you for introducing his work. I’ll add him to my favourites in the ANZ photography category. TBH, I couldn’t tell the odd one out. Loved them all.