tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post7415760681806102987..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: evidenceHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-24156804440877842692008-03-17T16:23:00.000+00:002008-03-17T16:23:00.000+00:00genauuuu, z.B. my journal has a kindof symbiotic r...genauuuu, z.B. my journal has a kindof symbiotic relationship with what I have now come to call the "paper blog" - they are two sides of the same coin but rarely share the same content... mh."Post-Google" by TAR ART RAThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164248659631146885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-57088464246314527342008-03-14T14:56:00.000+00:002008-03-14T14:56:00.000+00:00It seems odd for Carey to be writing something lik...It seems odd for Carey to be writing something like this--<BR/><BR/>"All the same, he counts the great artists and writers as his real family. They are his “ancestors” and his “true blood line”. It seems a trifle presumptuous. How, one wonders, would Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh, two of his chosen relatives, respond to being made honorary Barneses?"<BR/><BR/>--because Carey wrote an entire book (What Good Are the Arts?) arguing that our aesthetic judgments are relative. So how can you criticize Barnes for thinking that his work is as good as Waugh's or Austen's? Actually, I don't think Barnes is saying anything so "presumptuous"; it seems that if you feel a kinship with certain writers, if they speak to your way of looking at the world or introduce you to a new one that you find particularly attractive, they've simply done their job. And given that Barnes is both popular and award-winning, I think Austen at least - who wasn't given any awards or the honor of being taught at Oxford and Cambridge (as Barnes's books are) in her lifetime - wouldn't have had a problem being an honorary Barnes.Mithridateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09071591560485370221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-58491987907876422282008-03-13T21:14:00.000+00:002008-03-13T21:14:00.000+00:00Yes, total insanity! Fact is, forensic argument n...Yes, total insanity! Fact is, forensic argument not suited to human life.<BR/><BR/>(If you ever come across Patricia Cornwell's Jack the Ripper book, there is a MOST extraordinary argument move where she asserts that though Sickert was in France for one of the summers in question, he COULD have come back to commit murder in London--yes, of course [opposite of this argument you've got here, more commonsensical as simple matter of observation] and yet hardly, really, adducible as persuasive piece of evidence against the poor fellow!)Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.com