ellauri029.html on line 362: Kahneman has said that in reality humans pursue life satisfaction, which “is connected to a large degree to social yardsticks–achieving goals, meeting expectations.”
ellauri035.html on line 1072: Sen puuhastelu taitaa olla osallistuvaa havainnointia akateemisissa apinalaumoissa. Uusia muotoja tarvitaan koulufilosofiaankin, uusia labroja. Mitä sen uusissa labroissa puuhastellaan jää aika hämäräx. Käsitetyötä, ei siis käsityötä, eikä käsityölehtiä. Meemejä tutkitaan uusilla ovelilla tavoilla, niin ainakin rahoittajille luvataan. Eihän ne mitään ymmärrä kuitenkaan. Se nyysii Foucaultilta, toiselta rättikauppiaalta, History of the Present, ja tekee siitä Anthropology of the Contemporary. Vähemmän iskevä, mun miälestä. Sehän plagioi kuin Zizek, paizi ei izeään, vaan Foucaultia. Kunnon lipilaaristi se haluu osottaa et nykyisyys on rahanheittoa, ja sixi tulevaisuuskin voi olla mitä tahansa. Kovasti ähkäisten se äkistää ulos tän neronleimauxen: contemporary “is a moving ratio of modernity, moving through the recent past and near future in a (non-linear) space. Eli vähän vanhaa, vähän uutta, vähän lainattua, vähän sinistä. Bravo Polle! Sä teit sen! Mikä pukerrus! Tais peräpukamat olla kovilla!
ellauri052.html on line 945: Zachary Leader’s work, though superior to Atlas’s and better than his first volume, still has some serious flaws. He swallows Keith Botsford’s absurd claim that his subject “is a direct descendant of Machiavelli”. Leader constantly tries to connect every person and event in Bellow’s life to their fictional counterparts instead of emphasising his imaginative transformation of experience. Literary agent Andrew Wylie, well named “The Jackal,” poached Bellow from his longtime agent Harriet Wasserman. Varmaan lupas Salelle pyllynamia.

ellauri053.html on line 1251: Versatile Writer: He exhibited in his work breadth of talents and interests. His most renowned work falls into cultural theory; art history including painting, sculpture, and architecture. He wrote on the critics of the old and modern English Literature too. He even wrote lecture articles, short stories etc. William E. Buckler says that Pater “is still one of the half-dozen indispensable critics in English; from, say, 1880 to 1920, he was without equal.”
ellauri069.html on line 115: “The aim of literature,” says a character in “Florence Green Is 81,” one of Barthelme’s first published stories, “is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
ellauri073.html on line 231: Jotkut kuvitteli että Reagan (1981-89) oli oikea johtaja. Mutta ne oli enimmäxeen vanhoja pieruja. Jopa kasarilla useimmat nuoret amerikkalaiset, jotka haistoi markkinapellen mailin päästä, tiesi että Reagan oli oikeasti suuri myyntimies. Ällösanat kuten “palvelus” ja “oikeus” ja “yhteisö" ja “isänmaallisuus” and “velvollisuus” ja “Hallitusvalta takaisin kansalle” tai “Musta tuntuu yhtä pahalta” tai “Säälivää taantumusta" on vaan politiikkateollisuuden hyväxi koettuja myyntikikkoja, just niinkun “puhtaat hampaat raikas suu” ja “liskohengitys" hammastahnateollisuudessa. Me valikoidaan niitä hyllystä kuin hammastahnaa. Äänestetään samalla lailla kuin ostetaan Pepsodenttia. Muttei inspiroiduta. Ne ei ole "aito asia".
ellauri077.html on line 379: Samalla Pölö teki uraa Espanjan eniten erotettuna rehtorina. Muna vittuuntui kun kunkku armahti sen. Se halus olla vihainen. Kun kunkku antoi sille mitskun Muna sanoi: sen mä ansaizin. Kunkku: useimmat sanoo vastoinpäin. Muna: oikeassa ovat nekin. Vanha vastarannankiiski ehti vielä panna jauhot suuhun Francolle, ennenkuin poltti tohvelit takan edessä trombi aivoissa. "My painful duty,” Unamuno once said, “is to irritate people." Sen haudalla lukee:
ellauri097.html on line 449: Recently a caller to the radio told me about a conversation he’d had about homosexuality. The caller made the teleological argument, that looking at what the natural functions of the male and female reproductive organs are for, we can draw certain conclusions about how they should properly be used. The person he was talking with challenged his argument that you can’t get an “ought” from an “is”. The challenger seemed to be saying that just because it is that way in nature doesn’t mean that we can derive a moral rule from it. The caller asked if the challenge was incorrect and how to respond to it.
ellauri133.html on line 468: I don’t want to repeat King’s utter creepiness and describe this in too much detail (shit, I would but there is not enough space), but there are some elements of the scene that deserve mentioning. Again, functioning in misogynist misunderstanding of female sexuality, for at least one of these encounters Bev “feels no physical pleasure, but there is a kind of mental ecstasy in it for her.” When she does feel “some pleasure, dim heat in her childish unmatured sex,” she thinks of birds and resolves that having sex “is what flying is like.” The penis size of the character of Ben is commented on (“is he too big, can she take that into herself?”) and she eventually has an orgasm with him. Steve looks on with his little droopy wiener in his hand. I bet Mustafa had a biggish "It", and Tabitha King (the other one with the curves going in instead of out) has an even bigger one. They are like the little goat, the middling goat, and the big big goat that can suck the big bad wolf all the way in, balls and all.
ellauri219.html on line 1024: The American sublime, as Harold Bloom has said, “is always also an American irony”. Jayne Mansfield's bumper bullets. People hugging their pit bulls sexually and getting 15 years for it. Do you know what Teilhard de Chardin called the “noosphere”? Not the foggiest. I think what Rachel has in mind here is the Internet. Who is or was Teilhard anyway? Teilhard was mentioned by Pynchon, see album 69. Not a very memorable character apparently. Tässä Pierren tärkeimpiä läppiä, aika heruttavia:
ellauri222.html on line 175: The decorum in Bellow criticism is to acknowledge the original of the fictional character when the person is famous, and otherwise to insist on treating it all as fiction. Thus everyone knows that, in “Humboldt’s Gift,” Von Humboldt Fleisher “is” Delmore Schwartz, and that, in “Ravelstein,” Abe Ravelstein “is” Allan Bloom, the Chicago professor who wrote “The Closing of the American Mind” and was a good friend of Bellow’s.
ellauri236.html on line 510: “What kills me,” Paula said as she got into the car with a generous show of nylon-clad legs, “is I always have to buy my own corsage. The day you think of buying me one, I’ll faint.”
ellauri238.html on line 860: Layle Silbert Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is recognized as one of Israel´s finest poets. His poems, written in Hebrew, have been translated into 40 languages (2 more than Herbert), and entire volumes of his work have been published in English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Catalan. “Yehuda Amichai, it has been remarked with some justice,” according to translator Robert Alter, “is the most widely translated Hebrew poet since King David.” But boy, has he a long way to go to beat Dave.
ellauri238.html on line 863: According to Alter, Amichai’s early work bears a resemblance to the poetry of Thomas and Auden. “[Rainer Maria] Rilke,” wrote Alter, “is another informing presence for him, occasionally in matters of style—he has written vaguely Rilkesque elegies—but perhaps more as a model for using a language of here and now as an instrument to catch the glimmerings of a metaphysical beyond.” Kuulostaa pahalta.
ellauri286.html on line 356: Hänelle soitettiin uhkauspuheluita ulkomailta, häntä häirittiin seksuaalisesti verkossa, hänen yksityiselämäänsä ja perhesuhteita tongittiin ja hän sai salaisesta numerosta tekstiviestin, jonka lähettäjä esiintyi Aron 20 vuotta sitten kuolleena isänä. Aron “isä” kertoi viesteissä, ettei hän ole kuollut, vaan “tarkkailee” Aroa.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 321: Not every crime writer is a criminal, Shriver said, nor is every author who writes on sexual assault a rapist. “Fiction, by its very nature,” she said, “is fake.”
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 153: The trouble with reviewing The Ghost Writer a few weeks late is that Roth has already explained it for us. He is ever explaining. Like David Susskind, he can’t shut up. The Ghost Writer, he told readers of The New York Times, “is about the surprises that the vocation of writing brings,” just as My Life as a Man “is about the surprises that manhood brings” and The Professor of Desire is “about the surprises that desire brings.”
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 157: Portnoy, he says later on, “is about talking about yourself…. The method is the subject.” Likewise, “The comedy in The Great American Novel exists for the sake of no higher value than comedy itself; the redeeming value is not social or cultural reform, or moral instruction, but comic inventiveness. Destructive, or lawless, playfulness—and for the fun of it” (Roth’s italics).
xxx/ellauri286.html on line 356: Hänelle soitettiin uhkauspuheluita ulkomailta, häntä häirittiin seksuaalisesti verkossa, hänen yksityiselämäänsä ja perhesuhteita tongittiin ja hän sai salaisesta numerosta tekstiviestin, jonka lähettäjä esiintyi Aron 20 vuotta sitten kuolleena isänä. Aron “isä” kertoi viesteissä, ettei hän ole kuollut, vaan “tarkkailee” Aroa.
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