@emptywheel you're a CoMC expert TOO?!? (Meaning "in addition to everything else" not that I am)
@OKnox But one of my schticks is that I read both LMdP and CdMC in the newspaper. Far more interesting that way.
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@emptywheel you get a better sense of the structure that way. I read Comte and all of those at my grandparents' house. Devoured them. -
@OKnox And what else was going on. Every paper in Paris had "Napoleon" stories running in their feuilletons in those years, not surprisingly
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@emptywheel not sure I ever read Mysteres though -
@OKnox And the Napoleon you guys ended up getting was, in many ways, the one from CdMC. Dumas deserved more blame than he got. -
@emptywheel that's fascinating. I had no idea. I was blissfully unaware at 10. -
@OKnox Slavoj Zizek, who once asked to be on my diss committee (I declined), got into a fight w/me once abt whether it was book for 14 yos. -
@emptywheel I read most of Jules Verne and some Dumas(es) at about 10. Re-read later but not after 18. -
@OKnox Haven't read enough Verne. Also mostly published in feuilleton. Theory SciFi arose out of feuilleton bc of pop sci also pubbed there. -
@emptywheel of the lesser-known stuff Paris In The 20th Century is hallucinatory but/and grim. But amazing. -
@OKnox Will check it out. What year was it? - 4 more replies
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