I’m interested in how a domain, work of language or art, mathematical proof, movie, etc. can be “up its own ass”
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GEB, almost inherently
this has been contested and I’m not sure where I come outhttps://twitter.com/the_lagrangian/status/1009955841980751872 …
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I think, in general, the surest way "out" for a self-critiquing or self-referencing work is via displays of earnestness by its creator. GEB comes off (to me) as pure exercise in grand-unified-theory-ing and doesn't really reach anywhere outside of that mission
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yeah that seems true
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Gass's The Tunnel is an extended philosophical meditation on the phenomenon of disappearing up one's own ass actually come to think of it that's probably a fully realized subgenre of the western literary canon
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canetti's auto-da-fe clearly, maybe also death in venice
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