Comments on: These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2009/08/16/these-fragments-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins/ Just blowin' through naptime Fri, 28 May 2010 01:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Top Posts of Infinite Summer « Infinite Tasks, Infinite Summers, & Philosophy http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2009/08/16/these-fragments-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins/#comment-6622 Top Posts of Infinite Summer « Infinite Tasks, Infinite Summers, & Philosophy Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:46:38 +0000 http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/?p=78#comment-6622 [...] Journeyman Jeff on Fragments Shored Against My Ruins [...] [...] Journeyman Jeff on Fragments Shored Against My Ruins [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2009/08/16/these-fragments-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins/#comment-6538 Jeff Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:00:52 +0000 http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/?p=78#comment-6538 Thanks! Yeah, even outside of how very enjoyable it is, I've gotten a lot of use out of <em>The Name of the Rose</em> when it comes to interpreting other works of literature. (The whole book's about reading, in one way and another.) As for my spoiler line... You know, I'm having second thoughts (and third, and fourth) about how I'm doing this thing. This is my fourth read of <em>Infinite Jest</em>. My original plan was to blog along with Infinite Summer, but I've been knocked off that schedule a couple times. I've been trying to keep to the reading schedule—transposed along the actual calendar—but it feels like it's forcing me into overview posts (“Then this happened. And then this happened"). I think I'm going to abandon the week-by-week structure and just make sure I stay within the IS spoiler line. Thanks! Yeah, even outside of how very enjoyable it is, I’ve gotten a lot of use out of The Name of the Rose when it comes to interpreting other works of literature. (The whole book’s about reading, in one way and another.)

As for my spoiler line… You know, I’m having second thoughts (and third, and fourth) about how I’m doing this thing. This is my fourth read of Infinite Jest. My original plan was to blog along with Infinite Summer, but I’ve been knocked off that schedule a couple times. I’ve been trying to keep to the reading schedule—transposed along the actual calendar—but it feels like it’s forcing me into overview posts (“Then this happened. And then this happened”). I think I’m going to abandon the week-by-week structure and just make sure I stay within the IS spoiler line.

]]> By: Infinite Tasks http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2009/08/16/these-fragments-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins/#comment-6534 Infinite Tasks Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:54:57 +0000 http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/?p=78#comment-6534 Dude, that Eco explanation is perhaps the strongest argument I've read (and we've been exposed to so many these last few weeks or more) for the carefully plotted so-called "difficulty" of the first two hundred IJ pages. Thanks so much for bringing it up. If you can't learn to exist in the fractalized, fragmented, annular cosmos of IJ via those first pages, you won't be able to share the brave and wild events that follow! I'm not sure where your current spoiler line is, since this is a "Week 4" post, so I won't discuss forward developments from the "week" of your post. But I'm really appreciative of your bringing back up for me the issues surrounding Joelle's "Personal Daddy." That description of the movie viewing, and the Prize, is just too deliberate to be misleading. Dude, that Eco explanation is perhaps the strongest argument I’ve read (and we’ve been exposed to so many these last few weeks or more) for the carefully plotted so-called “difficulty” of the first two hundred IJ pages. Thanks so much for bringing it up. If you can’t learn to exist in the fractalized, fragmented, annular cosmos of IJ via those first pages, you won’t be able to share the brave and wild events that follow!

I’m not sure where your current spoiler line is, since this is a “Week 4″ post, so I won’t discuss forward developments from the “week” of your post. But I’m really appreciative of your bringing back up for me the issues surrounding Joelle’s “Personal Daddy.” That description of the movie viewing, and the Prize, is just too deliberate to be misleading.

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