tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post3747901474773596885..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: Procrustes writes a bookZenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-24187515125229967922014-01-25T08:53:24.057-08:002014-01-25T08:53:24.057-08:00It isn't so much the way Booker trims plots to...It isn't so much the way Booker trims plots to fit his categories that I objected to. Rather it was the way he took some fantastic works of literature and denied that they were proper stories because they didn't fit with his categories. Thus Joyce's 'meandering' Ulysses is a 'claustrophobic little circle, unable to lead anywhere and totally divorced from any real meaning' compared to Homer's Odyssey. Sorry! Any theory which fails to admit Joyce (and Chekhov and DH Lawrence and Chekhov and Proust and ...) as story-tellers is not a worthwhile theory. dajahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692913901619410684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-91518964579906643562012-06-24T04:11:42.962-07:002012-06-24T04:11:42.962-07:00I'm in fact a fan of your blog, and read your ...I'm in fact a fan of your blog, and read your posts on my phone. (I did inquire as to when your book would be published a few months ago). On this ocassion, I was disappointed. Your piece started off rather interesting. You corrected spellings and so on .. I was expecting a grander point in conclusion to the piece, but it just dampened off. I wasn't impressed by your character assassination. I think your last sentence is rather parochial and frivolous. I don't know what I am "trying" (as per your first sentence) as I do rather like this blog, but I think I'll dulcify my future comments. <br /><br />Blake Stacey - Is it contrarianism (which presumably you associate with some sort of sin?!) to express a criticism of someone's style? As I said, I hold no interest in this matter. I find this global warming "debate" too reminiscent of some sort of egocentric anthropromoprhic religion. (It's not quite clear cut whether global warming is reaching dangerous and unprecedented levels to the point alarmists make - let alone if anything can or should be done about it).Liam Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09585790660383219089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-65393659265802434902012-06-23T14:20:04.749-07:002012-06-23T14:20:04.749-07:00Oh, let him yolk on a bit. He just wants to beat ...Oh, let him yolk on a bit. He just wants to beat his drumstick to prove superiority through contrarianism. Flipping the bird to those so foolish as to listen to actual experts, as it were.Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-45176459878948274202012-06-22T07:05:07.268-07:002012-06-22T07:05:07.268-07:00Nice try, Liam. I don't need to read his book ...Nice try, Liam. I don't need to read his book to know he's in over his head, just like I don't need to read books explaining that vaccinations cause autism or that the earth is 6000 years old. Same principle.<br /><br />(Did you mean "paltry logic," or were you implying something fowl?)Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-86095472503350538182012-06-22T06:48:04.094-07:002012-06-22T06:48:04.094-07:00Does failing to have a meteorology bachelors degre...Does failing to have a meteorology bachelors degree preclude expository writing on the matter? Have you actually read his anti-global warming book, or, when you daringly label him "self-deluded", is that restricted to a Wikipedia entrance, and the fact that he shares a different opinion to you? <br /><br />I don't have a position on global warming. I simply don't approve of the poultry logic or that too-cheap ad hom in any otherwise enjoyable piece.Liam Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09585790660383219089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-74809484314124582412012-06-21T07:01:33.077-07:002012-06-21T07:01:33.077-07:00There are plenty of other wackadoodles out there (...There are plenty of other wackadoodles out there (and not just Birthers and other tinfoil-hatted commenters on newspaper articles). Why, just this AM I read the following:<br />"Edward Klein defends his Obama biography, ‘The Amateur’":<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/edward-klein-defends-his-obama-biography-the-amateur/2012/06/19/gJQAA1fToV_story.html<br /><br />Inter alia, he contends he has proof that Obama's a Muslim and a Socialist with delusions of grandeur, despite reliable evidence to the contrary in all three cases. But some people will believe what they want to believe, and not let facts get in their way.Kathienoreply@blogger.com