Sonic Youth Gossip - View Single Post

!@#$%! · 07.24.2014, 09:43 PM

i just gorged myself on medium rare grilled ribeye so my brain is probably clogged with fat at the moment but to answer briefly to all that it's not that hemingway is my universal gold standard but rather he's my gold standard IN ENGLISH for the syntax that works best in that language with its serious limits that won't let you write a one-page sentence and even a couple of dependent clauses make it all fucking confusing and unreadable.

in spanish i much prefer the baroque constructions of góngora or garcía márquez or lezama lima or sarduy. the syntax is different-- it invites gluttony and excess. it's way more festive.

about "old names" -- they're there for a reason. it's like saying you must like rihanna's music because she's brown and a woman and mozart is just OLE NAMEZ.

shit fuck in college i had to read so much crap because the faculty had an ax to grind against the canon. fuckit, waste of time. those people are now forgotten.

anyway i forget what i was saying. there was also beer, so...

oh paul auster was good once upon a time i think he's gone down no? i couldn't read something about a horse and a chessboard i can't remember fuck. music of chance was good.

alright i have to go process this beef off the internets with people and drinks but

hey i liked jhumpa lahiri's interpreter of maladies and her gogol ganghuli novel. not because she's a fucking "WOC" (my fucking gott what horrid acronym) but because she wrote them well.

one last thing to consider is that nobody takes the time these days to properly cook, ferment, cure and age a book. the writers are busy tweeting and churning careless crap before their 15 minutes are up. writing talent has migrated to television.

flaubert took 17 years to write madame bovary. good shit, that. viva los old names. the older the better. i should go try and read the decameron.

07.24.2014, 09:43 PM	#3570
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	i just gorged myself on medium rare grilled ribeye so my brain is probably clogged with fat at the moment but to answer briefly to all that it's not that hemingway is my universal gold standard but rather he's my gold standard IN ENGLISH for the syntax that works best in that language with its serious limits that won't let you write a one-page sentence and even a couple of dependent clauses make it all fucking confusing and unreadable. in spanish i much prefer the baroque constructions of góngora or garcía márquez or lezama lima or sarduy. the syntax is different-- it invites gluttony and excess. it's way more festive. about "old names" -- they're there for a reason. it's like saying you must like rihanna's music because she's brown and a woman and mozart is just OLE NAMEZ. shit fuck in college i had to read so much crap because the faculty had an ax to grind against the canon. fuckit, waste of time. those people are now forgotten. anyway i forget what i was saying. there was also beer, so... oh paul auster was good once upon a time i think he's gone down no? i couldn't read something about a horse and a chessboard i can't remember fuck. music of chance was good. alright i have to go process this beef off the internets with people and drinks but hey i liked jhumpa lahiri's interpreter of maladies and her gogol ganghuli novel. not because she's a fucking "WOC" (my fucking gott what horrid acronym) but because she wrote them well. one last thing to consider is that nobody takes the time these days to properly cook, ferment, cure and age a book. the writers are busy tweeting and churning careless crap before their 15 minutes are up. writing talent has migrated to television. flaubert took 17 years to write madame bovary. good shit, that. viva los old names. the older the better. i should go try and read the decameron.
	\|QUOTE AND REPLY\|