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    <title>The Village Explainer</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The main thing was to secure that judicious tone. And, of course, the “not, not.” She probably only really meant: “Pound was a know-it-all. Good for some things, I guess. Mainly a pain in the ass.” But if she had written that, the busy street of her sentence would have been reduced to a hospital hallway.

I’m saying: What she meant was one thing; what her sentence means is another. The exploitation of this phenomenon made her career.

Or go back to Wittgenstein, §108, Über Gewissheit:

“But is there then no objective truth? Isn’t it true, or false, that someone has been on the moon?” If we are thinking within our system, then it is certain that no one has ever been on the moon. Not merely is nothing of the sort ever seriously reported to us by reasonable people, but our whole system of physics forbids us to believe it. For this demands answers to the questions “How did he overcome the force of gravity?” “How could he live without an atmosphere?” and a thousand others which could not be answered. But suppose that instead of all these answers we met the reply: “We don’t know how one gets to the moon, but those who get there know at once that they are there; and even you can’t explain everything.” We should feel ourselves intellectually very distant from someone who said this.

He would feel distant, but he wouldn’t be distant.

And even you can’t explain everything.

 

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    <title>The American Scholar: A Pleasure to Read You - Arthur Krystal</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Something, I fear, goes missing when the historical particularity of style is dropped from the curriculum. That aesthetic exchange whereby writers strive to outdo their precursors (vividly traced by Harold Bloom and W. Jackson Bate) has taken a back seat to more socially pressing concerns. Although serious writers continue to write good books, interesting books, unusual books, literature itself is now viewed primarily as a cultural artifact defined by limitations of sex, race, and class. It acts more as a critique of society than as a gloss on previous work. To take a well-worn example: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is invariably seen as a racial and colonialist work of fiction. No one is saying that the story is not well told. Nonetheless, it is bad in a way that is more important than the ways it is good.

More recently, the novelist Jesmyn Ward, writing in The New York Times Book Review, gracefully extolled the virtues of The Great Gatsby while focusing on Gatsby’s exclusionary status as though it were the novel’s most important feature: “the idea most invisible to [her] as a young reader [was] that the very social class that embodied the dream Gatsby wanted for himself was predicated on exclusion. That Gatsby was doomed from the start. He’d been born on the outside; he would die on the outside.” But what reader past the age of 14 doesn’t get this? It’s not that Ward is wrong; it’s just that harping on James Gatz’s displacement conveniently lines up with our culture’s need to condemn privilege.

I may be overreaching, but this emphasis on the socioeconomic aspect of the novel suggests that we’re in danger of losing a category of pleasure. If what is most important in a book is its attitude toward imperialism or class or injustice, then we automatically consign good writing to secondary status. Gatsby is great not because James Gatz is an interloper who exposes class prejudice, but because Fitzgerald learned from Conrad (as well as from Booth Tarkington, Sherwood Anderson, and Compton Mackenzie). Wanting to be a great writer, he had to be his own writer, and with Gatsby, he aspired to “write something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned.” And part of the pleasure of reading Gatsby is discovering where and how he differed from the writers he admired.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As for my account of my argument with Nicole, I’ve tried to make it as accurate as I possibly could. I’ve been recording everything since I started working on this project, and I’ve consulted the recordings repeatedly when writing this. But in my choice of which details to include and which to omit, perhaps I have just constructed another story. In spite of my efforts to be unflinching, have I flattered myself with this portrayal? Have I distorted events so they more closely follow the arc expected of a confessional narrative? The only way you can judge is by comparing my account against the recordings themselves, so I’m doing something I never thought I’d do: with Nicole’s permission, I am granting public access to my lifelog, such as it is. Take a look at the video, and decide for yourself.

And if you think I’ve been less than honest, tell me. I want to know.

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    <title>Language Log » We play Haydn until the sun comes up</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Top management has vowed to stop what it is doing, not now but soon, soon. A chamber orchestra has been formed among the people in the newsroom, and we play Haydn until the sun comes up.

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    <title>[1403.3084] Emerging archetypes in massive artificial societies for literary purposes using genetic algorithms</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The creation of fictional stories is a very complex task that usually implies a creative process where the author has to combine characters, conflicts and plots to create an engaging narrative. This work presents a simulated environment with hundreds of characters that allows the study of coherent and interesting literary archetypes (or behaviours), plots and sub-plots. We will use this environment to perform a study about the number of profiles (parameters that define the personality of a character) needed to create two emergent scenes of archetypes: "natality control" and "revenge". A Genetic Algorithm (GA) will be used to find the fittest number of profiles and parameter configuration that enables the existence of the desired archetypes (played by the characters without their explicit knowledge). The results show that parametrizing this complex system is possible and that these kind of archetypes can emerge in the given environment.
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    <title>Fantasy Review: ‘The Mirror Empire’ by Kameron Hurley | Fantasy Review Barn</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-25T12:37:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Mirror Empire will make your head hurt in a very good way. A nasty little puzzle that takes days to solve, the world slowly comes together to give the reader a fuller picture. Layers upon layers are there to dig through. And when you think it is sorted out expect to have your mental map redrawn again. Entire alternative dimensions have to be taken into account here. Typically when people speak of steep learning curves in fantasy it is because a lot of names are thrown their way. The steep curve in this book tosses in cultural conventions that require a completely different thought process with each character that is followed. Fear not though, at times the characters are fighting this learning curve right along with the reader.

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    <title>This Space: A world without feeling</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But there is such a story, and we condemn susceptibility in the act of succumbing. Modern writers might suggest that, once cleared of sentiment, the novel has the potential to be the ground of truth, of clinical analysis, a place in which we are no longer hoodwinked; a world without feeling. Except of course this is maintained on a contradiction: storytelling is the means to this world. Beckett's comedy confirms that even the most constricted, stripped-down story is emotional. Even the most overtly heartless, realistic novel relies on a certain kind of sentiment. Swooning under the gaze of its gritty beloved, it refuses the possibility of error or unknowing. Contemporary fiction's impatience with this paradox and its refusal to confront it in form and content actually constitutes the bulk of contemporary fiction, and might thereby trace the fate of humanism. Apparently free of heavenly abstraction, humankind still struggles to ground its story and still swims in a sea without shore, and so, to save itself, clings like Pincher Martin to one remaining outcrop, repressing its fate. 
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    <title>A Less-Noticed, More-Influential Reason Writers Write: To Talk - Atlantic Mobile</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Internet hasn't changed that. What it has changed is the relative visibility and mixture of the different motivations. Letters used to be private—not so much, as it turns out, because the writers wanted privacy as because there simply was not the mechanism to make them more public. Now there is, and as a result, we are all reading everybody else's letters all the time. This is great for everyone who is writing in order to form connections or communities. It's not so great for those of us writing for fame and fortune, since all those letter writers tend to glut the market. But the fact remains that, for what most people want to use writing for most of the time, the Internet has undoubtedly transformed the world for the better.

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    <title>Letter to a Young Critic: William Giraldi Defends True Criticism - The Daily Beast</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Eliot and the New Critics ruled the critical scene for so long and with so heavy a hammer that they turned a perfectly sensible way of reading into a loathsome pedagogy. The shift away from that intense focus on language happened not only in the academy but also in Manhattan offices, when the publicity machine aimed the floodlight away from the book and onto its author. The whole world of criticism and reviewing has been debased because the critic now is pressured to perform as part publicist. Don’t allow yourself to get entangled in that marketing apparatus. The New Critics’ focus on language, on “close reading,” is how every literary assessment should begin. Forgive me if I state the resoundingly obvious but you might be surprised to know how many among us eschew the resoundingly obvious: the writer’s race, religion, gender, or politics have nothing at all to do with your judgment of how his or her words are working on the page."]]></description>
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    <title>Le Guin’s Hypothesis | Book View Cafe Blog</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Genre Fiction as FixFic]]></description>
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    <title>China Miéville: the future of the novel | Books | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-22T19:00:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/21/china-mieville-the-future-of-the-novel</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[Y]ou will all be able to buy them," Durrell says of those novel-writing kits, addressing not the other writers, who didn't need them, but the public, "and write your own."

That's a telling elision - he starts by kvetching about writing by machine, by no one, and segues instantly to doing so about writing by the public, by everyone. That's apocalypse. That, apparently, is a nightmare future.

The worst anxiety is not that the interfering public will ruin your work if they muck about with it, or that they'll write a terrible novel, but that they'll improve it, or write a great one. And once in a rare while, some of them will. How wonderful that will be.

You don't have to think that writing is lever-pulling, that anyone could have written Jane Eyre or Notebook of a Return to my Native Land to think that the model of writers as the Elect is at best wrong, at worst, a bit slanderous to everyone else. We piss and moan about the terrible quality of self-published books, as if slews of god-awful crap weren't professionally expensively published every year.

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<item rdf:about="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/the-urge-to-flee-the-theater-what-district-9-taught-the-world?utm_source=Feedburner%3A+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torcom%2FFrontpage_Partial+%28Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories%29">
    <title>The Urge to Flee the Theater: What District 9 Taught the World | tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Blog posts</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-27T11:08:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/the-urge-to-flee-the-theater-what-district-9-taught-the-world?utm_source=Feedburner%3A+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torcom%2FFrontpage_Partial+%28Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wickus escaped and I remained in my seat, but I will never forget how powerful that emotion was, how I sat there gulping air for the next ten minutes as I tried to regain some kind of equilibrium. This film had put me through something brutal, something I hadn’t been prepared for.

This film was absolutely right to do that.

The direct allegory running through the story is easy to recognize: District 9 is a reference to District 6, an area in South Africa where 60,000 colored Africans were evicted from their homes in during apartheid in the 1970s. The atrocious behavior of MNU’s employees and their thirst for better firepower is a commentary on the private military contractors being used by governments today, specifically Xe Services (formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide). Choosing to zero in on these two topics seems logical: the film was set and shot in South Africa and the potential problems associated with military contractors are a modern concern."]]></description>
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    <title>William Deverell: Our national snobbery disorder - Full Comment</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That attitude carried on to seduce academic libraries and graduate English courses, where students were made to believe that Hugo and Dostoevsky, Maugham and Conrad had not written crime and spy novels. The virus still flourishes in our schools and cultural institutions; our self-appointed guardians of culture still leave genre writers off the literary tea guest lists. She writes mysteries, my dear, she'll show up reeking of gin. Or you get: He writes thrillers? How crass. It's so American.

"Popular fiction" has become a term of vulgar connotation, but it reeks of ironic paradox: obviously we sobersided Canadians ought to be reading unpopular fiction. (As an aside, reflecting an antithetical American attitude, I once got a rejection from a publisher down there who complained a manuscript was "too literary for the genre.")"
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    <title>342 - “More Typical Than Any Real State of the Union”: Sinclair Lewis’s Winnemac « Strange Maps</title>
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    <title>Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Another hoax producing more stories: I, Libertine</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-01T12:50:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2008/06/another-hoax-producing-more-stories-i-libertine.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>hoax reality literature pranks publishing best-sellers guerilla-ontology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://14theditch.livejournal.com/159367.html">
    <title>14theditch - Sheppard Lee: Written By Himself</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-02T21:40:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>nanohistory books esoterica American literature novel</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/11/07/mclemee">
    <title>Inside Higher Ed :: Makin' Bacon</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-18T16:46:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/11/07/mclemee</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/seeing_past_the_critics.html">
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Via Danny Yee.
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<item rdf:about="http://uzwi.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/very-afraid/">
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between writing (on the one hand) and the enormous bulk of most science fiction....
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