Miles Rouches

but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks…

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@wydna00 @HumbleNHandsome @vylpill @LStalewski Apparently Donald Fagen and Walter Becker wrote a letter to Anderson after Darjeeling. From the letter: “Indeed, you must be aware that your career as an auteur is mirrored in the lives of your beloved characters as they struggle in vain to duplicate early glories

[Andrew McLuhan @amicusadastra]

AI points to the ultimate fulfillment of the Narcissus promise — we will be talking (etc.) with ourselves and think it’s someone else.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@Logo_Daedalus Pynchon takes it further, in a way: In Vineland the lead DEA federalè is a “tube freak” and Bjornson had acting aspirations in IV. Both are somewhat pitiable/sympathetic. Everyone involved seems to believe that they are part of a “show”.

[Harold Bloom Quotes @hbloomquotes]

The strongest adversary for deep reading is neither "theory and cultural studies," nor the prevalence of the visual (television, motion pictures, computer screens), but the extraordinary profusion and speed of information.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@PYeerk Don’t know of any criticism of the show but this interview with Peter Chung is excellent and provides a good deal of information about his mindset and motivations. https://t.co/DjZmbbjztM

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@PYeerk easily the best western animation, made to translate the experience of reading something like Nabokov, Borges, or some aspects of Burroughs to the screen. Full of dualities, mirrors, and seemingly inescapable labyrinths…

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@vylpill It was one of the best profile pieces I’ve read. Genuinely funny and captivating. I’d see a certain “type of guy” reading his book throughout middle/high school and never really got it. Now I do.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@C4COMPUTATION https://t.co/YR7RpRIuPL

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@C4COMPUTATION Context of the quote is fascinating: Borges was asked if JLB was a real person or if (as rumored) he was a construction of a group of writers. His response is certainly uncertain. He finishes the interview w/"I know nothing. Imagine I don't even know the date of my death"

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@amicusadastra @slyjacklee “If They can get you asking the wrong questions, They don't have to worry about answers.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@wydna00 @pylabrobot I asked a similar type of question on Ulysses - the chapter in question doesn’t even feature Bloom or Dedalus! I expected it to at least mention something about the structure of the chapter or say it can’t provide an answer.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@Logo_Daedalus But Time the cruel, whose smooth way
Is feline, patient for the prey
That to this twig of beings clings;
And Fate, which from her ambush springs
And drags the loiterer soon or late
unto a sequel unforeseen;

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@Logo_Daedalus Started Clarel last night, excellent book. Definitely wondering why more aren’t aware of it.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@vylpill Rick Deckard uses it to hunt down escaped redditors in the classic “Do Mandroids Dream of Electric Sheeple?”

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@Logo_Daedalus There’s a nod to Pynchon in an early ep of S2 when someone named Bodine is mentioned but never shows up. Was wondering how it connects to the overall story aside from the obvious pynchonesque atmosphere of the season.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@vylpill The New Science of Giambattista Vico is excellent. Probably the philosophical work that I “got the most out of”. McLuhan, Frye, and Joyce took inspiration from his ideas. Browne’s Religio Medici isn’t purely philosophy or theology but I’d recommend it as well.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@mason_rouches “They can’t handle the space-man”

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@Snark150 @Logo_Daedalus Compare the map that covers the territory to Blake’s (of whom Borges was an appreciator) description of Science as a tent that obscures the Heavens in The Book of Urizen.

[Miles Rouches @MilesRouches]

@Snark150 @Logo_Daedalus Given that Borges knowingly lifted this from Carroll, we could guess that this infinite book is the collection of all literature. Which would undoubtedly also contain this story.