From what I've read, I love him. The way he deals with paranoia in The Crying of Lot 49 totally blew my mind, and Gravity's Rainbow is, without a doubt, one of the best novels of the century. He really opened up my mind for what contemporary fiction is: moreso than narrative, fiction's role is to create a world of information. Whether that information is true is not as important as whether or not it is coherent. Whereas modernism loved fragmentation, postmodernism LOVES coherence -- it just doesn't have to correspond with reality.
i tried reading 49 and I couldn't do it. i found every scene painful. his bizarre ideas and characters were pleasant but the i found the prose itself just really jarring and unreadable. i physically do not want to read the book, and i feel bad about it.
Podly I think I learned more about post modernism in this 20 page "key terms" paper my teacher printed up for one of my classes this semester than I did in my entire critical theories class.
I am so excited for my classes this semester!
Who are you reading?
Please say Foucault, he's the only post-modernist I really liked.
Do you not like DFW? I think that he is second to only Joyce in terms of literary masterpiece.
I actually have not read any Wallace yet, sorry to say.
I plan to start on Infinite Jest when I get my kindle fixed, though.
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Interstice is such a good word, but I didn't know that it was a technical term.
And the cynical side of me doubts that they are using it as anything other than a buzzword.
Please say Foucault, he's the only post-modernist I really liked.
Well the class actually isn't a post modernist class I don't believe but the fact that it covered it better than my critical theory class when it isn't even the focus is what impressed me. It's a weird class, it's focusing on slipstream sciencefiction, new wave fabulism and interstitial fiction.
The reading list is:
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Eds. Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss
Blow-Up: And Other Stories, by Julio Cortazar
Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Stories (selections), by Jorge Luis Borges
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (selections), by Franz Kafka
Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Eds. Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak
That said I do have Foucault's Discipline and Punish I just haven't got around to reading it yet.
there is some good shit in there dude
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Ok seriously, why does OpenSSH refuse to implement the HPN patches? OpenSSH is limited to like 3mb/s tops on gigabit LAN connections with multi-core processors.
Why why why would they not add a feature like this? More importantly, why why why do they not at least implement the "None" cipher, seeing as how SSH is the standard unix way of doing things but 99% of the time you don't necessarily give a crap if anyone intercepts your data, just if they intercept your login details.
Ok seriously, why does OpenSSH refuse to implement the HPN patches? OpenSSH is limited to like 3mb/s tops on gigabit LAN connections with multi-core processors.
Why why why would they not add a feature like this? More importantly, why why why do they not at least implement the "None" cipher, seeing as how SSH is the standard unix way of doing things but 99% of the time you don't necessarily give a crap if anyone intercepts your data, just if they intercept your login details.
Why don't they?
Because Theo de Raadt is a Silly Goose and so are most of the rest of his inner circle
From what I've read, I love him. The way he deals with paranoia in The Crying of Lot 49 totally blew my mind, and Gravity's Rainbow is, without a doubt, one of the best novels of the century. He really opened up my mind for what contemporary fiction is: moreso than narrative, fiction's role is to create a world of information. Whether that information is true is not as important as whether or not it is coherent. Whereas modernism loved fragmentation, postmodernism LOVES coherence -- it just doesn't have to correspond with reality.
i tried reading 49 and I couldn't do it. i found every scene painful. his bizarre ideas and characters were pleasant but the i found the prose itself just really jarring and unreadable. i physically do not want to read the book, and i feel bad about it.
Any specific examples?
Also, reading IJ on a kindle seems downright wrong.
I think I am going to be terrible if I ever have to visit someone I know who is in the hospital dieing.
Can you do degu research on the interwebs to find out what's wrong with it?
Can you try different foods to see if it will eat?
Or maybe just cuddle it?
We took it to the vet yesterday (going to cost me 185 bucks intotal) and got it some cream, antibiotics and the food that you mix with water and that syringe where you can stick it in her mouth and kinda force feed her.
She just kinda lays around and doesnt do much, like she has no strength, hopefully she just needs a lot of rest so the antibiotics can fight off the infection, if that is what she even has.
Also I was getting myself really psyched up to take a creative writing class (because the concept of taking such a class is intimidating to me) and now it turns out I don't have one but I still kinda want to do some creative writing.
Also I was getting myself really psyched up to take a creative writing class (because the concept of taking such a class is intimidating to me) and now it turns out I don't have one but I still kinda want to do some creative writing.
Also I was getting myself really psyched up to take a creative writing class (because the concept of taking such a class is intimidating to me) and now it turns out I don't have one but I still kinda want to do some creative writing.
The last time I took a creative writing class was senior year in high school - highly recommend it. Maybe even try writing some on your own if you can't get into a class for it.
Kafka is one of the greatest authors in human history
Yes.
The Trial is the only book I've read where as soon as I finished it, I started reading it again without another book in between.
the best part is he told a friend of his to burn everything he ever wrote after he died
guy stuck his guns, that's for sure
Kind of funny... I got into Kafka in about 8th-9th grade... And whenever I was reading his stuff, I always imagined ghost-Kafka shaking his fist at me, pissed off that I'm reading his stuff.
Also I was getting myself really psyched up to take a creative writing class (because the concept of taking such a class is intimidating to me) and now it turns out I don't have one but I still kinda want to do some creative writing.
Take one, it will make you feel better about yourself probably.
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And it seems like I won't be going to bed anytime soon... more time to pack I suppose
Maybe, or just trying to get you from thinking negatively using a strange unknown form of psychology.
i tried reading 49 and I couldn't do it. i found every scene painful. his bizarre ideas and characters were pleasant but the i found the prose itself just really jarring and unreadable. i physically do not want to read the book, and i feel bad about it.
I actually have not read any Wallace yet, sorry to say.
I plan to start on Infinite Jest when I get my kindle fixed, though.
And the cynical side of me doubts that they are using it as anything other than a buzzword.
there is some good shit in there dude
gotta make this happen.
Why why why would they not add a feature like this? More importantly, why why why do they not at least implement the "None" cipher, seeing as how SSH is the standard unix way of doing things but 99% of the time you don't necessarily give a crap if anyone intercepts your data, just if they intercept your login details.
I think this calls for a suicide pact!
From talking to people I'm really excited about the Borges, the rest I don't know what to expect, really.
Let me know if you find something fairly cheap/freeware that is good.
Why don't they?
Because Theo de Raadt is a Silly Goose and so are most of the rest of his inner circle
I've been reading about the Golgi apparatus.
Chat goes through cycles. I could post dozens of love songs if that would help.
Any specific examples?
Also, reading IJ on a kindle seems downright wrong.
but i don't even need this one to graduate and i can't seem to get interested in it
this is unlikely but will do.
more likely I'll ... find something else. IF YOU ARE AWARE OF WHAT IT IS THAT I AM SAYING
EM: I think the rules link in the diplomacy thread is broken.
Well since we are on the depressed doesn't that mean we have to post like Linkin Park?
Don't do it.
We took it to the vet yesterday (going to cost me 185 bucks intotal) and got it some cream, antibiotics and the food that you mix with water and that syringe where you can stick it in her mouth and kinda force feed her.
She just kinda lays around and doesnt do much, like she has no strength, hopefully she just needs a lot of rest so the antibiotics can fight off the infection, if that is what she even has.
3DS: 2852-6809-9411
the diplom.org site is just down for some reason
google "diplomacy rules" and you should find other results.
Lady GaGa is where it's at
Yes.
The Trial is the only book I've read where as soon as I finished it, I started reading it again without another book in between.
We're not trying to drive people to suicide.
Thanks man.
Not quiet Linkin Park.
the best part is he told a friend of his to burn everything he ever wrote after he died
guy stuck his guns, that's for sure
It turns out that they won't go down until march when I have to renew. :x
:^:
I love creative writing classes.
The last time I took a creative writing class was senior year in high school - highly recommend it. Maybe even try writing some on your own if you can't get into a class for it.
Over here listening to Flo Rida
Kind of funny... I got into Kafka in about 8th-9th grade... And whenever I was reading his stuff, I always imagined ghost-Kafka shaking his fist at me, pissed off that I'm reading his stuff.
Take one, it will make you feel better about yourself probably.
It's hard to listen to Great Big Sea and be sad at the same time.