I agree, and I can share the same feeling. On the other hand the alternative
is neighborhood's pettiness. I lived for a while in a tourists' resort, and
the much I hated it when it got crowded see at Christmas for winter sports
(even if there is something in the many lights and fetishist cardboard-like
story), it almost became worse when few people inhabited the place. The New
Wave "change of energies" might apply to this context.
What I want to say is that there is no way out. And the "imposition" from
the outside might seem a relief to repetitive impositions from the nearer
outside, as much as from the ones from a pre-packed inside.
On 11/3/07, Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> I agree with what you are saying, on the other hand I noticed that what
> Amazon offers is right on spot and I can recognize it is valid thanks to
> previous contacts I had, see through professors or readers with whom I
> communicate. [Anny B]
> <snip>
>
> Oh yes, Amazon's recommendations are very often helpful. But that almost
> makes it worse. Rather than opting in, having the (aspirational, sociable)
> feeling that X rather liked this book so I may well like it too, I have
> the
> uneasy feeling that membership of a group is being imposed on me from
> outside: someone, as it were, has been telling _the truth_ about Josef K.
>
> CW
>
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>
> 'When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no
> surprise for me, so of course I was surprised.'
> (Wittgenstein)
>
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