http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:33:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-864 A Book Meme « flying.farther Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:39:58 +0000 http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/#comment-864 [...] Book Meme I was included in a meme about books. However, it was nearly two years ago. Oops…. Well better late than never [...] [...] Book Meme I was included in a meme about books. However, it was nearly two years ago. Oops…. Well better late than never [...]

]]> http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Book Meme, Redux at Fallen Into Knowledge Tue, 08 May 2007 04:53:54 +0000 http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/#comment-825 [...] who I tagged (once upon a time, in a land far far away), has tagged me back. Apparently he thinks that after two [...] [...] who I tagged (once upon a time, in a land far far away), has tagged me back. Apparently he thinks that after two [...]

]]> http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Adam Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:10:22 +0000 http://www.christopherlayton.org/2005/08/07/help-ive-been-attacked-by-a-meme/#comment-146 Your comparison of Borges and Joyce is apt. Joyce is not invitational. He has one experience in mind, and while he is infinitely skilled in actualizing that feeling or epiphany in the reader, his fiction is not good for much besides feeling that one thing. But don't get me wrong. That sharing in experience that he allows can be a great thing, "a fig leaf for our nakedness" as Kierkegaard says of Shakespeare (my fig leaf, especially, has been "Araby." That said, I think Borge's art is just better. Barth makes a similar comparison between Mozart and Bach, saying that where Bach commands the praise of God, Mozart just does it. Your comparison of Borges and Joyce is apt. Joyce is not invitational. He has one experience in mind, and while he is infinitely skilled in actualizing that feeling or epiphany in the reader, his fiction is not good for much besides feeling that one thing. But don’t get me wrong. That sharing in experience that he allows can be a great thing, “a fig leaf for our nakedness” as Kierkegaard says of Shakespeare (my fig leaf, especially, has been “Araby.” That said, I think Borge’s art is just better. Barth makes a similar comparison between Mozart and Bach, saying that where Bach commands the praise of God, Mozart just does it.

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