tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post481022961460537343..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Our Impoverished CulturePhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-71262457294661297672007-12-14T06:00:00.000-08:002007-12-14T06:00:00.000-08:00Well, if this is the real Toby, I'd never thought ...Well, if this is the real Toby, I'd never thought of him as an over achiever to begin with. Not exactly shooting for the stars, are you.<BR/><BR/>Here's a hint bound to make it with the object of your affection, wear a Camile Paglia mask.olvlzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15329638018157415801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-23959201438053888772007-12-14T05:39:00.000-08:002007-12-14T05:39:00.000-08:00She's a moron, how do James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, ...She's a moron, how do James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Ingmar Bergman owe their towering status to spirituality? <BR/>If she was alive 200 years ago, she would have been bitching that Europe's contributions to the arts are over, we'll never see the like of Mozart and Beethoven again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-90422925682475517282007-12-14T05:36:00.000-08:002007-12-14T05:36:00.000-08:00One could argue that replacing religious faith wit...<EM>One could argue that replacing religious faith with some vague aesthetic sense of the numinous is a way to enjoy sanctimony without the distractions of commitment and responsibility.</EM><BR/><BR/>Outstanding, Phila!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://whirledview.typepad.com" REL="nofollow">CKR</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-76114443634431536992007-12-13T22:23:00.000-08:002007-12-13T22:23:00.000-08:00Jesus, Toby. Keep that to yourself, can't you?Jesus, Toby. Keep that to yourself, can't you?Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-67694318670699085782007-12-13T21:36:00.000-08:002007-12-13T21:36:00.000-08:00I would like to make Camille Paglia come.Looks lik...I would like to make Camille Paglia come.<BR/><BR/>Looks like you got a fan of your own, boy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-35648414772335590222007-12-13T15:14:00.000-08:002007-12-13T15:14:00.000-08:00While I've criticized neo-atheism for its scientis...<I><BR/>While I've criticized neo-atheism for its scientism and its bigotry I'd never say that atheism in itself is sterile,</I><BR/><BR/>Of course not. Which is why it suffices to say that you've criticized scientism and bigotry.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-42205623157482613242007-12-13T13:43:00.000-08:002007-12-13T13:43:00.000-08:00One of signal achievements of Paglia is the one yo...One of signal achievements of Paglia is the one you identify, her ability to snow people into thinking that her repetition of prefab aesthetic judgment is somehow an original thought. Has she ever gone out on the limb and praised someone who hasn't been praised either by academia or by the marketplace? On first reading this it reminded me of Catherine Anne Porter's "The Wooden Umbrella", a critique of Gertrude Stein. But Stein actually did go out on a limb, praising the genius of some rather minor figures who the world has yet to see genius in and she bought the others new while the market hadn't spoken. <BR/><BR/>While I've criticized neo-atheism for its scientism and its bigotry I'd never say that atheism in itself is sterile, though much of it is and many atheists are the same can be said for any identifiable group of people. Paglia's replacement of the received wisdom on art and a concept of "nature" that comes straight out of 1960s copies of Argosy magazine would lead to sterility. Ego is the starting point of sterility, it's only when it is surpassed in generosity and humility that sterility is surpassed. Paglia might be able to repeat words like those if someone impressive had written them for her to crib but I doubt she'll ever make them true through experience.olvlzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15329638018157415801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-35357365242214953762007-12-13T13:39:00.000-08:002007-12-13T13:39:00.000-08:00Thanks, Cw/oQ. I don't know what to say, except th...Thanks, Cw/oQ. I don't know what to say, except that you're very kind!<BR/><BR/>I have to warn you, though, that I'll only disappoint you in the end...<BR/><BR/><I>how many humans can retain hope after reading Adorno?</I><BR/><BR/>It's a simple matter of contemplating all things as they'd present themselves from the standpoint of redemption!<BR/><BR/>Nothing to it.<BR/><BR/><I>What does TSAIEWDNBIFSWHTUTAAWTTTSTCOTFW stand for?</I><BR/><BR/>The Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe In Free Societies, Who Happen To Use Terror As A Weapon To Try To Shake The Conscience Of The Free World.<BR/><BR/>LOL!!!11Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-20675572622851223302007-12-13T13:09:00.000-08:002007-12-13T13:09:00.000-08:00I discovered this blog only recently. Bouphoniaji...I discovered this blog only recently. Bouphoniaji, I think I'm in love. <BR/><BR/>How often do you find prose on the Internets in which the metaphors are unmixed and original? How many bloggers seems to post from within a well-ordered library, flitting nimbly to the shelves now and then to adorn their musings with florets of Timeless Wisdom®? How many internauts mock garbage prose with rough 'n ready felicities like "metric assload"? And finally, how many humans can retain hope after reading Adorno? <BR/><BR/>Plus, the nudibranchs are real purty.<BR/><BR/>I don't have much to add to the deft filleting of La Paglia, except to say that the fingers that bumfumble "Bumbling and fumbling even more than usual in his inability to finesse the embarrassing release..." into this world have received the Mother-Superior-quality ruler-rapping they have so long deserved.<BR/><BR/>As to technique, one question. What does TSAIEWDNBIFSWHTUTAAWTTTSTCOTFW stand for? <BR/><BR/>KUTGW, C w/o Q.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com