In the early days of the Amazon links, I thought of subverting the idea by
choosing two or three books which had no obvious connection -- a sort of
interdisciplinary guerrilla action.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Anny Ballardini
> Sent: 03 November 2007 09:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: sentimentality & 'classism'...
>
> 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> > '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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