32,385 books
—
69,227 voters
Ty Matthews
https://www.goodreads.com/tymatthews
progress:
(page 21 of 314)
"Oh I like this book. "Third, as a consequence, it seems to set up a stark choice at a specious crossroads between a cul-de-sac of autonomous and impenetrable theory and a through-road of critical practice, accessible language and direct encounter with literary texts."" — Oct 13, 2014 11:54AM
"Oh I like this book. "Third, as a consequence, it seems to set up a stark choice at a specious crossroads between a cul-de-sac of autonomous and impenetrable theory and a through-road of critical practice, accessible language and direct encounter with literary texts."" — Oct 13, 2014 11:54AM
Ty Matthews
is currently reading
progress:
(6%)
"Affective fallacy and intentional fallacy. Playwrights not intending plays to be the things of idiosyncratically affective nature? Any inference is and isn't with fallacy until you can perform the logic behind it. By using the clues in the text surely. Have I gotten linguistics all wrong? Wimsatt and Beardsley were a worrying bunch weren't they?" — Oct 13, 2014 08:30AM
"Affective fallacy and intentional fallacy. Playwrights not intending plays to be the things of idiosyncratically affective nature? Any inference is and isn't with fallacy until you can perform the logic behind it. By using the clues in the text surely. Have I gotten linguistics all wrong? Wimsatt and Beardsley were a worrying bunch weren't they?" — Oct 13, 2014 08:30AM
“So what's the problem?’
‘No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity, the question here is what opportunity does this present us with?’
‘It seems to me’, said Ernest stubbornly, ‘that this opportunity presents us with a problem. Is there a director that Virginia would like?”
― Mayday
‘No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity, the question here is what opportunity does this present us with?’
‘It seems to me’, said Ernest stubbornly, ‘that this opportunity presents us with a problem. Is there a director that Virginia would like?”
― Mayday
“Well,’said Ernest, ‘by some strange coincidence I know this story.’
Boddichek was not good at irony. ‘I knew that there was that possibility,’ he said, ‘but we have a great new way to treat it, and I thought you might want to reread it before taking a meeting.’
‘Reread it?’ said Mayday. ‘We are talking about Cinderella, and the wicked stepmother and the Ugly Sisters and Buttons the page and the Fairy Godmother, "Cinders, you shall go to the ball but be sure you're home by midnight or you'll turn into pumpkin"?’
‘Hey, you know it pretty well,’ said young Casey with admiration in his voice. ‘But I've found a new directionality for this story.’
‘Do you mean direction?’ asked Mayday.
‘I guess I do.’
‘Then’, snapped Mayday, ‘why don't you fucking say so?”
― Mayday
Boddichek was not good at irony. ‘I knew that there was that possibility,’ he said, ‘but we have a great new way to treat it, and I thought you might want to reread it before taking a meeting.’
‘Reread it?’ said Mayday. ‘We are talking about Cinderella, and the wicked stepmother and the Ugly Sisters and Buttons the page and the Fairy Godmother, "Cinders, you shall go to the ball but be sure you're home by midnight or you'll turn into pumpkin"?’
‘Hey, you know it pretty well,’ said young Casey with admiration in his voice. ‘But I've found a new directionality for this story.’
‘Do you mean direction?’ asked Mayday.
‘I guess I do.’
‘Then’, snapped Mayday, ‘why don't you fucking say so?”
― Mayday
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
―
―
Ty’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ty’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Ty
Lists liked by Ty
























