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"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
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"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
“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
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“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
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“Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.”
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“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.”
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“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
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