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2023-10-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Wonderworks - Story Thinking, The New Science of Narrative Intelligence

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-19 06:39|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

#1 Why is it that the works of the many authors supported in academe are so damned boring? Eliot, Joyce, Faulkner, Wolfe, every damned French and Italian novelist, etc., etc., etc.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-10-19 08:20|| 2023-10-19 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 World divvied into people who get Burroughs / Faulkner / Joyce and then all the rest of y'all.

Read Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest. See some Samuel Beckett and David Mamet plays if you can.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 08:24|| 2023-10-19 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ That's gonna leave an ungly bruise Merc....
Whahhahahaha

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-19 08:28|| 2023-10-19 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 I get Burroughs

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-19 08:33|| 2023-10-19 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Allegedly, Roy Scheider told his agent he'd fire him if the guy couldn't get him the part of Dr. Benway in the Naked Lunch movie. He got the role. Peter Weller as Bill Lee.

Worth a look.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 08:43|| 2023-10-19 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 #4, I assume you are being ironic. I'm talking William S Burroughs, II..

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 08:44|| 2023-10-19 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 And, yeah, À la recherche du temps perdu is not light reading. But worth the trouble.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 08:47|| 2023-10-19 08:47|| Front Page Top

#8 People say it's pretentious to bring up those authors and titles, but, as Satchel Paige said, "It ani't showin' off - if you can do it."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 08:58|| 2023-10-19 08:58|| Front Page Top

#9 You are allowed to not like (or understand) Cormac McCarthy, but you are not allowed to say he couldn't write.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 08:59|| 2023-10-19 08:59|| Front Page Top

#10 And. Anyone commenting on the Russia-Ukraine war posts who doesn't get Tolstoy / Solzhenitsyn / Bulgakov / Chekov / Pasternak better just stop.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 09:04|| 2023-10-19 09:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Meanwhile, to circle back to the actual original post, Gladwell has made a fortune mis-stating actual smart people's ideas while TED talk addicts drool over him.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 09:30|| 2023-10-19 09:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Literature, like art, if it doesn't touch your inner being, then it isn't "great". Saying it is, just puts off those that can't feel it. Zane Gray, E.R. Burroughs is great for those who can feel it. Just as Dali and Picasso. Pushing your opinion on others is disgusting. Share it if they ask but don't bully them.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2023-10-19 10:31|| 2023-10-19 10:31|| Front Page Top

#13 #6 I didn't.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-19 10:38|| 2023-10-19 10:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah. Own up to liking them Sax Rohmer books.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 10:40|| 2023-10-19 10:40|| Front Page Top

#15 If you want to read good, true to the era "rayciss cause that's how it was back then" literature, get into James Ellroy.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 10:42|| 2023-10-19 10:42|| Front Page Top

#16 #12 - Good art pushes very universal psychological buttons. "Art" tailored to a narrow audience is more appropriately labelled "commercial product."

See: Mozart, et al vs Taylor Swift.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 10:48|| 2023-10-19 10:48|| Front Page Top

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