I tried to read ulysses once. Nope.
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Replying to @CathyReisenwitz @palecur
i think Ulysses is good but the way any English department approaches it is virulent poison don't *analyze* the fucking thing, holy shit, you have to let go of systematization and read it like you're listening to a piece of music
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and not the way a goddamn musician listens to a piece of music either
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Replying to @chaosprime @CathyReisenwitz
how can anyone listen to music *not* like a musician, tho? it is possible I am misunderstanding your point. Basically I feel that experiencing music is itself musicianship; experiencing a story likewise has commonalities with creating one. Hm. Am I wrong about that?
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Replying to @palecur @CathyReisenwitz
the musicianly tendency i am polemicizing against is picking it apart into its components and thinking about and judging the technical choices instead of experiencing the damn thing
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Replying to @chaosprime @CathyReisenwitz
Ah! I call that 'reading for technique' when applied to novels, and I do it sometimes, but it's certainly not the default mode.
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Replying to @palecur @CathyReisenwitz
oh god i just realized something remember how in the Death's Gate books the Sartans locked the Patryns up in a death maze designed to be impossible to beat by being a badass but easy to beat by becoming a better person? and the Patryns responded by becoming INSANELY BADASS?
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Replying to @palecur @CathyReisenwitz
oh wow i thought you had read all extremely bad fantasy novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Gate_Cycle …
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Replying to @chaosprime @CathyReisenwitz
oh no weis/hickman? i don't, uh, patronize D&D tie-in mechanics, they are beneath me *opens dog-eared copy of Shadow of the Torturer*
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okay there Drizzt42069
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Replying to @chaosprime @CathyReisenwitz
I'll never be Your Drizz't Do'Urden
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