EPTWhat Are You Reading 2013 - Page 122
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Carnivorous Sheep
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
On September 06 2013 11:02 Jaaaaasper wrote: With out spoiling anything, you are moving towards the big over arching plot, with villains starting to have more obvious connections, all though they have been there but not easily discernible for awhile now. Cheers, I'll have a go at the next one. I stopped reading them and listen to the audio narrated by James Marsters, he's a real treat. | ||
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silynxer
Germany439 Posts
On September 04 2013 03:59 farvacola wrote: Yeah, this is it more or less, and to echo dmnum's sentiment, I do think that Achebe's work is very important and ought not be discarded by any means. There just seems to be this odd phenomena in the lit crit world where large swaths of people are perpetually stuck in 1975, and not just when it comes to race and gender theory. This is something I can agree with and I don't think any work should be completely reduced to its racism in analysis. Still, like I said one of the big reasons Heart of Darkness is powerful is its racist evocation of the Other (similarly to Lovecraft) and if that is thoroughly addressed in modern scholarship then I see no problem. On September 04 2013 02:49 sam!zdat wrote: there is no native african tradition of prose fiction. If any african writes it, they are adopting a western medium. Coetzee is afrikaans, not african. Things fall apart is a great novel though The question for me is: How can I understand? How can I listen? Exempting extreme measures there is little left than to use the media accessible to me and even then understanding remains difficult (compare the comment in Achebe's essay about the letter he received from a high school student). Obviously, all kinds of filters apply to such media so that it can be basically never truly "native" I just don't see a better way. Btw, is your quip about ideology being the air we breath per chance coming from Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination? If so is it a good read? It's sitting on my list but rather far down right now. Reading now: Dale Pendell: Pharmako Dynamis ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K3%2B65C6SL._SX260_.jpg) It's the second book in the Pharmako trilogy and as brilliant as the first. A pretty wild mix of poetry, botany, pharmacology and history all centered on psychoactive plants. One choice quote (well the quote is requoted from Goethe's Maximen und Reflexionen but it fits very well): Four epochs of science: childlike, poetic, superstitious; empirical,investigative, curious; dogmatic, didactic, pedantic; ideal, methodical, mystical. We never made it out of stage three. Next up (maybe): Michael Taussig: The Magic of the State ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lbPEr1LVL._SS500_.jpg) The title appealed to me and Taussig was referenced in other books I recently read. | ||
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YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
All this HoD whine just makes me want to un-read the book. I don't understand how you can be so touchy. Old times were not pleasant. It is our responsibility to remember and learn. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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farvacola
United States18843 Posts
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sam!zdat
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On September 07 2013 02:23 sam!zdat wrote: you are talking about 'dialectic of enlightenment' right? What is it called in french Yes it is. La dialectique de la Raison. Should have thought about it, because the translator kept the word Aufklarüng in many places. But I think La dialectique de l'Aufklarüng would have sounded way too strange. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
In a more common sense éclaircissement. If it's spiritual, Illumination I think, à la Rimbaud. But in such an intellectual book, everybody will get Aufklärung and its implications, so I think it's a pretty smart choice. | ||
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Grend
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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ngri
Luxembourg136 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
edit: going to read to the lighthouse next | ||
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