The "Infinite Jest" thing is rather a modern version of the same. If it doesn't make some sense in the next fifty pages...I may abandon it, especially since the guy that recommended it is all interested in some other chick, anyway.ETA: Dana is me. I wrote a paper on "The Yellow Wallpaper" though.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Jul 01, 2004 8:29:46 am PDT #3800 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Aims - Jul 01, 2004 8:30:07 am PDT #3801 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Dana's a freak.
Dana - Jul 01, 2004 8:30:37 am PDT #3802 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Camel-lover.
Betsy HP - Jul 01, 2004 8:30:56 am PDT #3803 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is like "To Room Nineteen" -- well-written and so close to the bone I never want to read it again.
Aims - Jul 01, 2004 8:32:07 am PDT #3804 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t smooches Dana
Polter-Cow - Jul 01, 2004 8:32:59 am PDT #3805 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dana's a freaky camel?
Lilty Cash - Jul 01, 2004 8:33:32 am PDT #3806 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is like "To Room Nineteen" -- well-written and so close to the bone I never want to read it again
I haven't read "To Room Nineteen", but I understand your "Yellow Wallpaper" feelings- I get vaguely nauseous reading that story- it's like it knows something about me that I haven't figured out yet. Messes with my mind.
Lilty Cash - Jul 01, 2004 8:34:20 am PDT #3807 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Pictures Camel Dana letting her freak flag fly.
DavidS - Jul 01, 2004 8:41:54 am PDT #3808 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Personally, I've felt that the value of any work of literature, theater, music, or film is exactly contained in the reader/viewer/listener experiencing it.
Way too relativist for me. But then I don't have an issue with there being a Western Canon either. (Which doesn't preclude people having interesting fights about what belongs there.)
erikaj - Jul 01, 2004 8:45:14 am PDT #3809 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I agree with Hecubus. I mean, I LOL at say, David Sedaris. And I would refill David Simon's printer cartridge as my job. But it's too soon to say what their lasting significance is.