tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post4926505131703644088..comments2024-03-04T01:47:18.750-05:00Comments on Lemurian Congress: The Barthathon: "The End of the Road"Adam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-43975774499864739062007-10-29T09:03:00.000-04:002007-10-29T09:03:00.000-04:00I'd love to join, Ambrose, but my yahoo email has ...I'd love to join, Ambrose, but my yahoo email has been bouncing for seven years and it makes it impossible for me to manage those groups.<BR/><BR/>But I WILL continue to check out your blog! And I'll stick it in my blogroll during the next update...<BR/><BR/>PS: Almost finished re-reading "Tidewater Tales."Adam Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-20196274168309206912007-10-26T15:37:00.000-04:002007-10-26T15:37:00.000-04:00>Hey Ambrose, sent out any water-messages lately?H...>Hey Ambrose, sent out any water-messages lately?<BR/><BR/>Heh, havent't heard from ol' YOURS TRULY in a while, to be sure...<BR/><BR/>Come over and stir the pot here, if you're not on the list already. It could use a kick in the arese:<BR/><BR/>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarthambrose menschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-34320910212541537052007-10-26T08:59:00.000-04:002007-10-26T08:59:00.000-04:00Hey Ambrose, sent out any water-messages lately?Wh...Hey Ambrose, sent out any water-messages lately?<BR/><BR/>Whenever I read a Barth novel, I find myself dog-earing the pages whenever I run across wonderful quotes like these...but eventually I need to stop or every page will be crimped up.Adam Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-48249962285377739702007-10-24T18:33:00.000-04:002007-10-24T18:33:00.000-04:00Here's another similar Horner quote (perhaps my fa...Here's another similar Horner quote (perhaps my favorite):<BR/><BR/>"Articulation! There, by Joe, was my absolute, if I could be said to<BR/>have one. At any rate, it is the only thing I can think of about which I ever had, with any frequency at all, the feelings one usually has for one's absolutes. To turn experience into speech -- that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it -- is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking."ambrose menschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-63762362316970221702007-07-30T09:00:00.000-04:002007-07-30T09:00:00.000-04:00Yes, my problem with most criticism is that it doe...Yes, my problem with most criticism is that it doesn't give anybody an EMOTIONAL reason to read a book...just a lot of intellectual reasons.<BR/><BR/>Here in the technical writing department I am occasionally having small disagreements about style with another writer. He believes in strict formalization, and I believe in occasional deviation from the rules in order to improve "the flow."<BR/><BR/>There are certainly pros and cons of both approaches...Adam Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-80979945131617757272007-07-27T15:18:00.000-04:002007-07-27T15:18:00.000-04:00You don't know the half of it...I just proofed a r...You don't know the half of it...<BR/><BR/>I just proofed a review I did of a book about George Orwell and three other, more obscure authors, which was basically sound. But the author's way of stating the case was so turgid, so full of justification by Theory, that it was almost unreadable at times.<BR/><BR/>But it's not only that academic criticism is so weak, so divorced from the reading experience of many lovers of literature. I reread your entry, and you are good: a vigorous, rhythmically interesting style, with just the right tone. And the content is spot on.<BR/><BR/>(I'd look up some academic criticism of Barth, but why spoil a nice day?)Eric Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556454801310628473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-90993097102166050962007-07-27T08:31:00.000-04:002007-07-27T08:31:00.000-04:00Wow, there must be a lot of really crappy academic...Wow, there must be a lot of really crappy academic criticism out there!Adam Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634565262440008573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32999748.post-58206906495038620042007-07-26T16:52:00.000-04:002007-07-26T16:52:00.000-04:00I just wish one-tenth of the academic criticism I ...I just wish one-tenth of the academic criticism I read was as accurate and elegantly stated.Eric Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556454801310628473noreply@blogger.com