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reading in translation. didn:t magically learn italian

Kinsella has certainly never met a simile he wasn't willing to take home and roll with in the hay, again and again. Yes, it is the sentimental nostalgic crack you think it is, which is OK, and kind of works to further the whole sunstroke/daydreamy-ness of it all.

Behold, ye humanities academics, Bakhtin is god, and Epstein is his prophet. Or whatever.

Read the first few chapters, and most of Efrain's chapter on literature in Sloterdijk's work--but had to return to the library. Will be pursuing the Spheres trilogy, most definitely. Not sure how well this serves as an "introduction," certainly be prepared for continental philosophy jargon from the get go.

Eagleton: theology, Ulysses, witty aside, Formalism, witty aside, random Pushkin reference, Brecht, Marx, damn fascists, Marx, witty aside, Formalism, damn postmodernists. rinse. repeat. and it's pretty good each time.

Well, it's definitely Gopnik. The portrait of Goethe ice skating is pretty priceless.

The irony and parody sublimates to sincerity. Brilliant. I half-converted to the "everyday sects."

I ain't hooked.