One thing I learned from my encounter with Girard is that books are a myth.
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We're used to our conversations - what questions are interesting, what counts as an answer, common knowledge, conflicts and their parties.
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Girard's conversation necessarily includes Heraclitus, Maimonides, Freud, Marx, Euripides, Derrida, Heidegger, Levi-Strauss, Proust.
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with fiction I find this is quite true as well. One will appreciate Lovecraft more looking at his friends & contemporaries.
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though Lovecraft's circle were kinda incestuous with content (homages to each other etc.) this works for other writers too
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good. for those who aren't prone to conversationalism
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still bitter that modernity made it impossible for me to take a vow of silence
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Antony Easthope uses this very idea in, Poetry as Discourse. He contrasts what you've described (Discourse) with the "New Criticism" method.
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PLEASE UNPACK MYTH'S RELATION TO FRAGMENT
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This is one of the underlying themes throughout "Cultural Amnesia" by Clive James: "In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room..."
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