Interesting phraseology there. My favourite author is Dostoevsky, hands down, but when it comes to the writing itself Vladimir Nabokov and Raymond Carver both occupy fierce and unrelenting places in my heart, if only because I can't read their work while walking without stopping up all of a sudden, occasionally in the middle of intersections, on account of how powerfully even a single sentence was written.
tid-bit: when it came to diagnosing what kind of romantic each of the people in my friends' group (the one that I most commonly call "the oracles," though there are many oracles I keep around that are not in this particular group) one of my best friends (Shawn, the hopeless romantic) said that I was the "Cassandra of romanticism" because I seem to always know what's going to happen in my friends' love lives (though not my own), but no one will listen to me.
question: if you could sit down and have a group discussion on anything with five people (regardless of chronological impossibility)-- who would those five people be? and what would the topic(s) of discussion be?
Man! That sounds like it was a pretty excellent discussion!
That said, your question's a toughie. I mean, sure, the obvious answers would be to talk about world politics, peace, human nature, spirituality, philosophy and all that jazz, but lately I've become very impatient with talking such things out; it either seems very redundant or else ineffective in terms of bringing about real change.
So me? I'd want to have a discussion about sex, relationships, power dynamics, guilt, victimhood, and general ethics where human interactions are concerned. For this discussion I'd like to invite Elias Canetti, Italo Calvino, Alfred Kinsey, Anais Nin, and Judith Butler.
"Respond to this post with an interesting fact about yourself..." Well, lately I've been coding HTML by day and by night, coding yet more HTML.
Oh, something interesting? Well, I've been playing through Goldeneye for Nintendo 64 lately for some reason. First time I went through it I was in my culturally-secluded high school. Now that I've been to university and met people from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Latvia and others, I feel really, really bad shooting at Soviets, even if it is in a video game. That's strange, if not interesting.
"...and feel free to ask me a question - any question! - as well." Oh god, I remember the last time this happened. I think I'll opt for something a little simpler this time. Has this term been good for you? You know, with the schedule and job and Imprint and all that...
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question: if you could sit down and have a group discussion on anything with five people (regardless of chronological impossibility)-- who would those five people be? and what would the topic(s) of discussion be?
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That said, your question's a toughie. I mean, sure, the obvious answers would be to talk about world politics, peace, human nature, spirituality, philosophy and all that jazz, but lately I've become very impatient with talking such things out; it either seems very redundant or else ineffective in terms of bringing about real change.
So me? I'd want to have a discussion about sex, relationships, power dynamics, guilt, victimhood, and general ethics where human interactions are concerned. For this discussion I'd like to invite Elias Canetti, Italo Calvino, Alfred Kinsey, Anais Nin, and Judith Butler.
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Well, lately I've been coding HTML by day and by night, coding yet more HTML.
Oh, something interesting? Well, I've been playing through Goldeneye for Nintendo 64 lately for some reason. First time I went through it I was in my culturally-secluded high school. Now that I've been to university and met people from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Latvia and others, I feel really, really bad shooting at Soviets, even if it is in a video game. That's strange, if not interesting.
"...and feel free to ask me a question - any question! - as well."
Oh god, I remember the last time this happened. I think I'll opt for something a little simpler this time. Has this term been good for you? You know, with the schedule and job and Imprint and all that...
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Me in early May:
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