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Comment on by bob

bob — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:28:21 +0000

Exactly, Without the final passage his exclamation loses its power.

Comment on by Phil Jones

Phil Jones — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:12:11 +0000

I like this addition to the previous passages. I think many of us have these moments of epiphany and self-awareness and then…having had them, return to daily life changed only a little – if at all.

Comment on Delirium and the Erotics of Excess (Romney and Bataille?) by Phil Jones

Phil Jones — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:19:49 +0000

Oh my! The word “contradiction” indicates that good old commie-communism and Marxism lie buried somewhere under all these words and theorizing. Which brings to my mind William Browder, the grandson of Earl Broder who headed the American Communist Party for a number of years. In 2005, William ran a hedge fund that put $135 million in his pocket. Furthermore, the son of Gus Hall, another leader of the American Communist Party, has made a mint in ranching. In other words, I don’t take anyone with a Marxist, communist or even anti-communist basis for his or her thinking too seriously.

Comment on by Phil Jones

Phil Jones — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:47:53 +0000

Nice review that captures the ambiguous reaction of American readers to this kind of Japanese fiction. We like the minutely observed sensibility. We are puzzled by the Zen-like sense of the unreality of reality. And there’s something that genuinely annoys us, even if we can’t quite explain what it is.
Incidentally, the ugly little detective appears in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicles” which was written in the late ’90s. I wonder if there are other characters that appear in both works.

Comment on Paper Letters Again by bob

bob — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:07:30 +0000

It does seem a bit sad, true. But I think the author sees it as a low-level way to re-invent the paper literary journal in letter form—he’s asking a stable of writer-friends to contribute to it. So he’s calling it a Letter but it is really still a magazine or journal in serial distribution mode, I guess. Plus he’s trying to raise money, I assume, to keep his website online. Or just to keep himself ? in pocket money? Could also be the true artist in him looking for a new way to shuffle the cards? As those of us who miss the great ages of real Letter writing know, whatever this might be or become, it won’t be the same thing. The anecdote about the farmer, however, is so good it hurts, more than being sad? Probably thousands like him, maybe the world over, millions?

Comment on Paper Letters Again by ncolloff

ncolloff — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:27:50 +0000

Paying someone, even modestly, to send you paper letters strikes me as a little sad. I am reminded of the farmer on Dartmoor who traveled to market every Tuesday and posted himself a letter so he could be visited on his isolated farm by the postman on every Thursday! Though I do miss paper letters -one of my last bastions of paper based communication has succumbed to a computer in her eighties!

Comment on by Phil Jones

Phil Jones — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:01:19 +0000

No great insight about art or whatever. I just like the photo Good feel to it.

Comment on Clothes make the person — Cunningham’s New York by bob

bob — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:12:39 +0000

yes–netflix — probably “on demand” on tv too—popular right now — I think you’ll enjoy it

because it is not your typical “fashion spread” sort of thing—

they guy is gay but you won’t be surprised by that—but he is gay in the old style semi-closeted way of our age—no flamboyance and no political attitude — one of the shameless/ful moments comes late in the movie when the movie maker presses him on it—-revealing instead how careless and cruel his generation (younger) can be on these matters —

Comment on Clothes make the person — Cunningham’s New York by Phil Jones

Phil Jones — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:41:57 +0000

As someone who is mystified by fashion, who also dislikes it rather intensely, I admit to being very curious about an explanation about its importance. Is this film available on the internet? Or where?

Comment on Vibram Five Fingers in Deleuze’s way of thinking by Phil Jones

Phil Jones — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:54:21 +0000

As someone who was foolish enough in the 1970s to buy Earth Shoes, I remain skeptical of all “developments” in shoeware.