If "Stop All the Clocks" is the sort of novel that leads you to consider reality as either poetry or mathematics, then I'm for sure going to have to read it. It was already on my list, but the persisting "Chesterton" and "thriller" comments have made me a little wary (I like my novels like I like my morning sky - slightly moony, without much motion). I have also been curious about the technical underpinnings it might have, as I continue to approach (be sucked into?) attempting to understand new and past technologies more concretely.
I look forward to wherever your review of "On Drugs" eventually appears!
Thank you! For a meditative treatment of some of the same themes I can recommend the non-fiction book God Human Animal Machine by ex-Calvinist Meghan O'Gieblyn.
I prefer to cite the things chatacters in Terry Giilliam films say'no' to precisely as Romantic. And our working definition for the ism will be a clutch of synopses of Gilliam movies redacted with a black marker for clarity.
Right dear woman, is that the idea is floating. You and I are together in locating it with some of the sartorial accessories from the 1800 inception. Anatole France did this "Penguins book" Island of penguins? About sainted missionaries carrying catholocism to Eyre. Now. That should represent as far away from heroism as you get within the genre maybe? Because 100 percent of the action is miraculous? I will check it today. I mean it is Romance being ironic which makes a step outside the enchanted circle of first wave femnsm and etcetera: refusing to eat is in the circle, Yoga is a little bit outside...?
If "Stop All the Clocks" is the sort of novel that leads you to consider reality as either poetry or mathematics, then I'm for sure going to have to read it. It was already on my list, but the persisting "Chesterton" and "thriller" comments have made me a little wary (I like my novels like I like my morning sky - slightly moony, without much motion). I have also been curious about the technical underpinnings it might have, as I continue to approach (be sucked into?) attempting to understand new and past technologies more concretely.
I look forward to wherever your review of "On Drugs" eventually appears!
Thank you! For a meditative treatment of some of the same themes I can recommend the non-fiction book God Human Animal Machine by ex-Calvinist Meghan O'Gieblyn.
I prefer to cite the things chatacters in Terry Giilliam films say'no' to precisely as Romantic. And our working definition for the ism will be a clutch of synopses of Gilliam movies redacted with a black marker for clarity.
Meaning of course the things they defy are what was unromantic.
Right dear woman, is that the idea is floating. You and I are together in locating it with some of the sartorial accessories from the 1800 inception. Anatole France did this "Penguins book" Island of penguins? About sainted missionaries carrying catholocism to Eyre. Now. That should represent as far away from heroism as you get within the genre maybe? Because 100 percent of the action is miraculous? I will check it today. I mean it is Romance being ironic which makes a step outside the enchanted circle of first wave femnsm and etcetera: refusing to eat is in the circle, Yoga is a little bit outside...?
Noah Kumin is not a very deep or bright guy, but discovering that he was part of the orbit you describe was like a chef's kiss of confirmation.
Thanks for reading. I’m not in a position to judge Noah’s depth or brightness. I like his curiosity and willingness to try new things, I’m
just not blown away by the results so far.
By 'try new things" you mean break with his "actually worse than fascist" mentor? Yay, I guess?