I have never seen the Sopranos, the Simpsons or the Wire. I saw like the first 15 minutes of Breaking Bad and GoT and lost interest. I mention this only to demonstrate that I am good and smart and cool. Wait, sorry, no, anhedonic.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Laughed. But are there fictional narratives that do hold your interest? If so, can you get a bead on what distinguishes them?
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Replying to @NineBandedBooks
When I was a kid I read obsessively. My parents had pulp paperbacks going back to the 50s. Haven't been able to read a novel in years, though -- both my eyes and my brain are going.
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Replying to @St_Rev @NineBandedBooks
I like The Venture Bros., whose writing is extremely tight, dense and polished. I've never liked movies, with the exception of Hong Kong action flicks.
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Replying to @St_Rev @NineBandedBooks
I like William Burroughs' nonfiction. I remember liking his Place of Dead Roads trilogy, but that may have been pretentious hallucination on my part.
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Replying to @St_Rev @NineBandedBooks
Generally I have little interest in characterization, whatever that means, and I loathe what I think of as 'relationship drama and uncomfortable pauses'. I have trouble inferring character motivations so it's hard for me to follow a lot of plots.
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Replying to @St_Rev
These and other dramatic devices play on the neuro-illusion of a "rich inner life," and that illusion is likely residue of a theory-of-mind adaptation. Seems relevant that the stuff you can't infer (or that evokes disinterest/hostility) isn't even there.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.