ellauri077.html on line 621: If we take the Incandenza-wraith’s claim that “Infinite Jest” was his last, desperate attempt to reconnect with Hal, to “simply converse”(IJ 838, original emphasis), as fact, this means that the actual product does just the opposite of what it was meant to. It instead traps the viewer in a solipsistic cage out of which there seems to be no escape.
ellauri101.html on line 247: Kade misu piirtää typerästi ylimääräisen nuolen armon eli aarteen vastaanottajasta sankariin. Ajatus on selkeästi kalvinistinen, eliskä ton saajan on ize ruvettava sankarixi, ei tässä mitään ilmaisia lounaita olla tarjoomassa. TINSTAAFL. Ei siinä mitään lisänuolta tarvita, kyseessä on samastus, unifikaatio: lahjan saaja on sisäinen sankarini ize, eli mä. Loppujen lopuxi ei tässä muita pelaajia tarvita kuin nro 1, jolla on koko nippu rooleja. Is it solipsistic here or is it just me?
ellauri107.html on line 154: "Philosophical generalization is completely alien to me—some other writer’s work. I’m a philosophical illiterate." Yep, his philosophy was solipsistic semitism. He had no need to read about it, he wrote the books.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 129: I also welcome some reassessments of Nabokov’s appalling personality, which slid deeper and deeper into solipsistic self-reverence as the “Lolita” royalties rolled in.
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