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I can enjoy both Bach and disco. Both Tarkovsky and the Fifth Element. Both Joyce and Japanese RPGMaker porn games.
In fact, you should read Ulysses. It's practically a manifesto against high culture. Against literature and even the written word as a whole. Language is ineluctably limited, there are things you cannot express with it. Touch, smell, sound, taste, visual impact - no matter how beautiful the sentences, they are no substitute to actually living in the moment. Woolf famously hated it because it exposed her and her ilk.
"[Ulysses is the work of] a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples [...] the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. When one can have the cooked flesh, why have the raw?"
>>24541889
I can enjoy both Bach and disco. Both Tarkovsky and the Fifth Element. Both Joyce and Japanese RPGMaker porn games.
In fact, you should read Ulysses. It's practically a manifesto against high culture. Against literature and even the written word as a whole. Language is ineluctably limited, there are things you cannot express with it. Touch, smell, sound, taste, visual impact - no matter how beautiful the sentences, they are no substitute to actually living in the moment. Woolf famously hated it because it exposed her and her ilk.
"[Ulysses is the work of] a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples [...] the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. When one can have the cooked flesh, why have the raw?"
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