Re: thoughts....

2003-06-12T08:56:23+00:00

Well, in their defense, I don’t think most literary theorists apply their paradigms to real life - only to literature. You cannot actually say that the real world is all about sex - it’s a vast and multifarious thing, impossible to pin down. Space dust and supernovae aren’t really big on copulation. However, literature is the world filtered through a person. You can make assumptions about the person, the nature of the human mind, the author’s culture, et cetera, quite legitimately.

As to what it’s good for, one of the central questions of literary criticism is “Why are we doing this?” In my experience (of literary criticism, NOT literary theory), it’s because it enriches our understanding, stimulates our minds, and provides a common ground for intellectual discourse between strangers. Literary theory, I couldn’t tell you.

thoughts....

2003-06-11T15:01:16+00:00

All it seems to boil down to is not merely a person’s ability, but even choice to make their purpose as pure as possible, in the purest sense of the word. It’s not merely a bandwagon for them, but a lifestyle, an enlightened place from which they can scoff at the uninformed and thus “tainted” masses. They think they recognize life for what it is and embrace a “sex” culture or “death” culture or what have you, choosing to focus on whatever meaning they’ve embraced for the sake of trying to be as true to their own nature as they can. For what? Bragging rights? What do you hope to gain in finality? When is your “race” won? Why is it so important? For myself, I can only say one thing:

I am insanely happy in my own stupidity.

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