Comments for What Will Suffice

Comment on Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:03:04 +0000

So I see you chose option a. I voted for that one.

Comment on In which I find solace in the prospect of travel by Wroth

Wroth — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:17:11 +0000

Aaaaand this is why my next vacation (if/when I can afford it) is going to be volunteering at a sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica.

Comment on In which I find solace in the prospect of travel by MorningGloria

MorningGloria — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:59:13 +0000

Oh hai. Ur blog. I enjoy it.

Comment on Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by gwytherinn

gwytherinn — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:46:50 +0000

I just wanted to say that I’ve been coming across your comments as I browse blogs and I really enjoy them! (Particularly at Jezebel and the liberal blogs that were covering the FBI’s giving Viagra to tribal warlords in Afghanistan.)

Comment on Why I Can’t Be A Proud Elitist by notasnob?

notasnob? — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:28:37 +0000

This is a fantastic post. Not just a good post for this blog, but a great blog post. Period. I can’t wait to read the book.

Comment on Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by Wroth

Wroth — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:51:58 +0000

Are these things mutually exclusive? You could seek ‘net fame (hint: blog about sexcapades! empowerful!) AND go to grad school. Like me, but without the sexcapades. …so maybe that’s a bad idea.

Other suggestions: become a couturier (-euse) for Liberty and her ilk, start a weekly salon for the devilishly clever but fashionably challenged, write a play every 24 hours, or read all of Proust.

Comment on Why I Can’t Be A Proud Elitist by aspiringexpatriate

aspiringexpatriate — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:45:31 +0000

Here. Here. Or is it Hear. Hear.
I come from a similar background, if I’ve reacted in a bit different way. Luckily, my closest friends tend to be those of a similar background, so I still don’t belong with the intellectual crowd. Unfortunately, I’m almost as big a snob as those you describe, at least the biggest snob among my friends. It’s my biggest demon, and I’m not really sure I’ve defeated it.
Basically, I’m a snob, yet also a reverse snob. I’m a fish out of water in every pond in which I swim. Whether I show it or not, at the very least I do know more than most about the individuality which exists in the social classes.
So, no real point in the comment, but that’s a great post, and I’m glad you wrote it, because I enjoyed reading it.

John

Comment on Leave the Lights On, David Foster Wallace by Sara

Sara — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:32:17 +0000

I never got around to reading Wallace’s stuff while he was alive. Now I’ve got A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again in my stack of books to read. Thank you for your thoughts on this writer.

PS: I’m ucelluccia on Jezebel. Not a stalker, I promise.

Comment on Leave the Lights On, David Foster Wallace by Exciting Internet Nexus of Power « Threat Quality Press

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Comment on No Apologies, No Regrets by braak

braak — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:36:39 +0000

@John aspex

I’m not sure I buy this. Isn’t Hamlet’s preoccupation with thinking and consideration the reason that the play goes into Act Five? If he’d killed his stepfather when he’d had the chance, instead of thinking about it for five acts, he wouldn’t have a dead mother, lover, or cousin.

There’s a position in Zen thought that argues that what thinking does is exactly the opposite of making the world what it is–the world is always what it is. Thinking creates illusions that divorce us from that reality.

I always read that Hamlet quote as being a Zen expression–the world is, only according to its nature. The ideas of “good” and “bad” are artificial constructions that divorce consciousness from reality.