August 2008
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars I suppose there’s not much to add to the quote from George Steiner found on the back cover: “The classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoyevsky…Lyngstad’s translation restores to the English-speaking reader one of the cold summits in modern prose literature.” It seems rare to read a book that brings such...
“All I know is what I have words for”
– Wittgenstein
“A confession has to be part of your new life”
– Wittgenstein
“The world is the totality of facts, not things”
– Wittgenstein
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world”
– Wittgenstein
“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak...”
– Wittgenstein
“to draw the lines where sense ends and nonsense begins”
– Wittgenstein
'TOMORROW’S EVE': SUBVERTING THE IDEAL
“The destining of revealing is in itself not just any danger, but the danger”
-Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, p. 331
Robert Martin Adams’ English translation of Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s Tomorrow’s Eve brings us a novel perhaps more relevant today then when it was originally published over a century ago. In this symbolic satire, published during the fin de siècle of 19th century...
FRAMING 'TOMORROW’S EVE'
Tomorrow’s Eve is structured as six separate books, with each containing a hinge event that drives the story to it’s conclusion. “The Pact” is the name of the second book, and while no explicit trade is made between Edison and Ewald, a Faustian theme cannot be denied. Reading between the lines, we clearly see that Ewald has indeed traded his soul (or spiritual value, a value that is the result...
Informed by Technology: The Time Machine, Learning...
This essay looks at The Time Machine and Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome as prophetic texts. While traditional prophetic texts are commonly religious (whereby an apocalypse is contingent on a particular deity) or millenarianist (whereby utopia is placed in a future beyond progress) these two texts reveal the future from within the genre of science fiction – a genre enabled by the...
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