Oz ,'Selfless'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I was just looking for fun conspiracy nonsense.
There's always a lot of that in Pynchon's books, but he rarely clears it up because he's kind of a prankster.
There's a bunch of links about the book here: [link] This is fairly amusing: [link] Of course, you can always ask Wikipedia: [link]
There's always a lot of that in Pynchon's books, but he rarely clears it up because he's kind of a prankster.
Heh, I was just thinking about how LOT 49 is kind of like the DR. STRANGELOVE, except about "conspiracy" and even more po-faced.
The fact that he can't seem to resist funny/loaded names a la Terry Southern is one big tell that something funny is going on somewhere.
I was just cracking up reading the Wikipedia entry on TCOL49 because of the awesome names. For some reason, Dr. Hilarius being a Nazi scientist always seems over-broad in the context of the book, but it never fails to bring a smile to my face when I consider it elsewhere.
horse who's name I'm forgetting that got sent to the glue factory.
His name was Boxer. Poor Boxer. In fact I am sitting here tearing a bit thinking of how poor, loyal Boxer was betrayed. I sobbed and sobbed when reading the book. I am not sure that Animal Farm is the sort of book that it supposed to evoke an emotional response, but it did.
I cry at any book that has bad things happen to animals.
looks at Watership Down wearily
In the name of being well-read. I'll just double up in my AD's.
His name was Boxer.
Yes, thank you.
Poor Boxer.
Oh yes.
I am not sure that Animal Farm is the sort of book that it supposed to evoke an emotional response, but it did.
Me too. I think Boxer's fate was supposed get an emotional response, though.
Thinking critically about Animal Farm....
I think that George Orwell's writing philosophy was like Brecht's-- to incite action rather than emotion. I just find Brecht's (and Orwell's) works to be emotionally moving. I think it may just be a reaction to the melodrama that same before them, though.
I also am just guessing about orwell's motives, as I know little to nothing about him.
Okay, I've never read Animal Farm and now I ain't gonna. 1984, though, and scads of 50s-70s scifi, so I'm all countercultured up.
I read Animal Farm directly before reading 1984, so it struck me how the former seemed almost like preparation for or a precursor to the latter.
They were both spring break reading material. Along with Catcher in the Rye and...maybe A Streetcar Named Desire ? Possibly Glass Menagerie. There was at least one play, and I think it was Tennessee Williams.
Oh God, somebody's pulled Corwood's chain. We'll be here all night. (sighs, puts out peaches)