Comments on: The Et Cætera Awards http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2008/08/the-etc-awards-i/ trivia since two thousand two Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:29:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Brad http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2008/08/the-etc-awards-i/comment-page-1/#comment-49554 Brad Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:18:07 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/?p=444#comment-49554 Dear Pulp, You thought wrong. Here is where time is better spent: Brian L. Keeley, "Of Conspiracy Theories", in <em>The Journal of Philosophy</em> Vol. 94, No. 3, March 1999, 109–126. [<a href="http://mugwump.pitzer.edu/~bkeeley/WORK/PUBS/Keeley_1999b_scan.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF</a>] Dear Pulp,

You thought wrong.

Here is where time is better spent: Brian L. Keeley, “Of Conspiracy Theories”, in The Journal of Philosophy Vol. 94, No. 3, March 1999, 109–126. [PDF]

]]> By: pulp http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2008/08/the-etc-awards-i/comment-page-1/#comment-49553 pulp Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:55:45 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/?p=444#comment-49553 hello, i know this is completely off topic, but i did not no of anywhere else to post this i think you would like this movie: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm and i'm interested to what u think of it hello, i know this is completely off topic, but i did not no of anywhere else to post this
i think you would like this movie:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm
and i’m interested to what u think of it

]]> By: Brad http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2008/08/the-etc-awards-i/comment-page-1/#comment-49539 Brad Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:55:14 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/?p=444#comment-49539 You must have sampled a highly biased cross-section of literature if you think this is typical! As I said, I'm not entirely sure I'm not going to read the novel out of curiosity, despite the misgivings raised by passages like these—too many interesting people have rated it highly, not to mention the fact it's been published by Dalkey... You must have sampled a highly biased cross-section of literature if you think this is typical! As I said, I’m not entirely sure I’m not going to read the novel out of curiosity, despite the misgivings raised by passages like these—too many interesting people have rated it highly, not to mention the fact it’s been published by Dalkey…

]]> By: Mark http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2008/08/the-etc-awards-i/comment-page-1/#comment-49498 Mark Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:58:39 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/?p=444#comment-49498 The snatches of prose from that review are the kind of thing that have generally turned me away from literature (albeit that this leaves me in a position of indefensible philistinism), to wit: her lips slide full over his lingam and the last fruits of her labor slither down her shiny throat. And while the man's mouth is still screaming in triumph, the gametic hordes yell out in Todesangst, for their worst nightmare has come true The first sentence makes Michel Houellebecq look like a feminist. The second is mind-boggling given that it was written by someone who ought to have some kind of scientific acuity. Never mind the pathetic fallacy involved, sperm basically either get ejaculated or just die in situ – it's not like there was some better fate waiting for them (with the exception of maybe one in a billion) either in some benign uterus or home in their cozy epididymis). Anyway, the lesson would seem to be that if you want to create great work, you should quit your day job. The snatches of prose from that review are the kind of thing that have generally turned me away from literature (albeit that this leaves me in a position of indefensible philistinism), to wit:
her lips slide full over his lingam and the last fruits of her labor slither down her shiny throat. And while the man’s mouth is still screaming in triumph, the gametic hordes yell out in Todesangst, for their worst nightmare has come true
The first sentence makes Michel Houellebecq look like a feminist. The second is mind-boggling given that it was written by someone who ought to have some kind of scientific acuity. Never mind the pathetic fallacy involved, sperm basically either get ejaculated or just die in situ – it’s not like there was some better fate waiting for them (with the exception of maybe one in a billion) either in some benign uterus or home in their cozy epididymis). Anyway, the lesson would seem to be that if you want to create great work, you should quit your day job.

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