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Re: What kind of people?

Kade — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:59:49 GMT

Have you ever TRIED reading Kant or Sartre? You're damn right I'd tell them to summarize, just like I wish I can wring the neck of whoever included the Middle English Fth's in Yale's online edition of Blackstone's Commentaries.

It's not about how "erudite" his prose is, it's about how little it has to do with the article. When somebody's writing just to hear themselves talk it doesn't receive protection under the "pretentious, but educational" clause.

What kind of people?

Inkberrow — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:05:12 GMT

He's not writing a straight-news story, or a high-school graduation address. Yes, he's having some fun with purple prose, but that hardly thwarts his purpose here. Let's face it---that's how these semiotics people talk ("simulacra", e.g.). Even if you and I aren't conversant in the prevailing terminology, it doesn't necessarily follow that the emperor has no clothes. He very well may not, of course, but not as a function of his accessibility to Joe Fray Poster.

Would you tell Kant or Sartre, or even a lesser analogue, to "try writing more simply"? If your only response is "But Zeitguy Is No Kant or Sartre, Or Even A Lesser Analogue", then please describe how you know that from his post, and show your work.

Re: Pimping the city

willofrande — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:48:58 GMT

You no doubt have some interesting and thoughtful viewpoints under all that stilted language. Try writing more simply. I'm sure you'll connect with a lot more people.

Will o' France

Re: I must admit to confusion when

MiamiOracle — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:32:34 GMT

I was wondering why you didn't mention the heady piscatorial aroma and soft, smooth mouth feel of the slightly plumper than thin sliced nova. She did have lox on her bagel, didn't she?

I must admit to confusion when

justoffal — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:52:23 GMT

I view a Brueger's bagel commecial featuring a busty blond in a low-cut slink skirt. I'm not sure if it makes me hungry or horney but it is worth the experience just the same.

Perhaps there are more subliminals out there than we care to trace.

The Bagel has a hole in the middle...hmmmm.. The blond does too.

The Bagel has cream cheese on it...we'll leave that one alone for now.

The blond has incredibly beautiful white teeth that bite in a measured motion thorugh the bagel on the close up...you tell me what's on your mind at that point.

Re: Pimping the windows of the store

run75441 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:12:55 GMT

gotta keep changing the sales windows and the mannikins who occupy them; if the sales are to happen. Nice piece

Huh?

JimSanDiego — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:04:00 GMT

You wrote the instructions for assembling my grandson's tricycle, didn't you. Come on, admit it. I know it was you.

Re: Pimping the city

goudaboy — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:40:22 GMT

Zeitguy has just proven why America hates failed grad students.

Pimping the city

zeitguy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:09:01 GMT

Just as seas of data cannot slake the thirst for one cup of knowledge, the purloined surfaces of a thousand street front tableaux do not satisfy the thirst for one poetic still life.

This is the anti-Cartier-Bresson. Instead of a decisive moment framing the proof of a human soul, you have a procrastinating, dissembling eternity of facades teasing you down a proleptic ribbon of indication without the possibility of real change, real encounter, real trust or real betrayal.

As such, it is a half-baked foil to one's fantasy, of course, as is all the mediocre pornography. Google wants to be in the porn business, but is too close to its dorm origins to step up to the true art without the undergraduate's sense of shame. Give it time, and it will figure out how to airbrush and avatar its simulacra cities in more stimulating poses. It will figure out how to tint the darkened windows with venal silhouttes, suggest a bared shoulder in the fenced yard alludes to greater baring, put lipstick on the lackluster urban factual pig and sell kisses by the click.