Dylan Taylor

Devotee of Literature, Science, Culture. Writing in or forthcoming in Modern Haiku, Gravity of the Thing, Vestal Review, American Journal of Poetry, and others.

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New poems up on The Gravity of the Thing. Happy to see these in a magazine I admire with a mission that values experimental writing.

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@DannyDrinksWine Roy Andersson

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@exhaustdata In pure representation of everyman minutiae, perhaps. But when one asks what philosophy it contributes (as Borges, Beckett, Pessoa, Sebald all managed)—what on physics, math, the universe—does it not become a catalogue of paint that makes little dent in its cosmic what & how?

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@matthiasellis You mean Karl Marx, the guy who got his PhD in greek philosophy?

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@DannyDrinksWine Koyaanisqatsi, The Act of Killing

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New seasonal “existential roller” video game, created in Unity: https://t.co/ZuqNcHAXif

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@aliciaandrz Two degrees in Literature, and I’d take the fundamental language of the entire universe over any writer from the Greeks to Postmoderns+, full stop. It would be odd to promote illiteracy of any sort, yes? We should all feel drawn to master algebra, calculus, and beyond.

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@KlausMaccus @_motherslug Faulkner’s “regionalism” isn’t a sin, but he does fall victim to some parochialism, and seems less driven to uncover a clear “articulation” in the way Proust and Woolf seemed to be. He’s closer to Joyce in this sense, and there is some truth in Nabokov’s “corncobby” dismissal.

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@KlausMaccus @_motherslug I don’t recall in studies of Faulkner’s work that a manipulation of time to demonstrate on the nature of reality is central, and have seen Time Passes discussed more in this context. But must admit potential partial ignorance here. Woolf was heavily influenced by Proust

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@KlausMaccus @_motherslug Few if any fiction writers beyond, say, Borges, offer original philosophical perspectives. I’d argue the juxtaposition of Time Passes with other chapters, and the entire framework of The Waves does this sort of thing as well—it creates a unique way of visualizing time, world, etc

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@arthur_ram83641 @_motherslug Baldwin is capable of great depth (though I can only speak fully on his nonfiction), as is Eliot—but he is traditional. Stevens is more the “aesthetics” of philosophy, which he does well. But offers no insights. James can probe, but he is often frivolous, also sensation-focused.

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@ajbwells This indicates he is a serious writer; he is disillusioned by the frivolity of invention, mimesis, re-creation, and has a self-awareness of both his limitations and the limitations of fiction, allowing him to push it forward.

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But could we deduce an entire “Joyce’s Politics” a la Aristotle’s from his work? Was political statement a core intended goal of his work? Politics is inescapable as any form of pop culture is; many writers’ “politics” are secondary and ad hoc, not primary and systematic.

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apolitical writer james joyce who wrote a portrait of the artist as a young man which mentions charles stewart parnell on every second page

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@duns_sc0tus Sapiens are natural omnivores, protein biologically required. >50% of all animals are carnivores incl per scientific evidence the ancestor of all animals. Eating meat likely goes back 800M+ years. Therefore to not eat meat must rest purely on a socially constructed ethics.

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@StephenLimbaugh Serialism etc. is not about expressiveness. The professor is stating that he sees this irrespective of its purpose. Its purpose is to approach it mathematically/systematically, not from some instinctual emotionality. It doesn’t sound dissonant to evoke a specific “feeling.”

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@IneluctableQuak @MrHWM -Frequently discover texts by (often major) writers that baffle them with their odder-than-their-reputation-ness; regularly ask the X-sphere “am I the only one?”
-The “Revisionists”: “here’s why [insert author] was actually the [best/most/etc]…”

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@grnpointer @wife_geist A real diner, regardless of quality, is about no frills “get the job done” affordability. Even the good ones (unless bougie-fied) use processed, high calorie ingredients.

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@TerrifyingQuest @chronoblip While “true” if defined as always unified “1 body of water”, will not 2 H2O+2 H2O molecules always = same “vol of 4 H2O molecules” output? To see body as “1” regardless of droplet summation is a perceptual definition, not tied to its physical “4-vol”, distinct from “5-vol”, etc.