Post by Todd on Sept 23, 2020 13:19:12 GMT -5
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The first batch of pages.
"If On A Winter's Night" has been on our radar since the Boundless Library webpage first went up.
Transcription:
Page 13
IOAWNAT - Calvino
- What a weird way to start a book.
- Alternating Chapters: chapter 1 od a pile
or differnt books, then a continuation
of you, the reader, trying to read a
goddamned book without having to start
another new one.
- POSTMODERNISM!!!
- maybe more "clever" than "good", per se.
- "you" the protagonist (trying to get through
a book) - "male" as defauly yay.
- Ludmilla (& later her sister Lotaria) -
object of desire or whatever. The original
manic pixie dreamgirl?
- 2nd person narrative chapters will pick up
thematic hooks from the preceeding
"Action" chapter... (never directly
referenced, though)
- the sex scene would be amazing if
Calvino's gender politics weren't so
boring.
- we're chasing a story to survive -
through translation, transliteration,
forgery, human error/accident
-
Page 15
Sapiens - Youval Noah Harari
- how did homo sapiens outperform other
primates? Hwat's the fundimental thing?
- basic idea: we can CO-OPERATE in
LARGE GROUPS. Community! Interdepencency!
Kegger! (probably not)
- but what's the trick: IMAGINATION
- without imagination, animals can't concieve of
large-scale projects for which there's no current evidence.
-> so STORYTELLING is part of this,.
as the way we relate those imagined
ideas?
- Harari uses "king" as a fundimental
expression of thie idea - we don't need to
have seen/met the king in order to
all woprk towards the same common
cause
-> I liked this better when it wasn't
about patriarchy & servitude. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- "king" is a STORY. It's not the symbols
it's the narrative - divine power,
heredity, status, wealth...
- building blocks of civilation:
- imagine result of work
- storytell that outcome
- profit
- this is how we get our friends out to
a restaurant - there's no evidence that
we'll have fun, but we can picture it &
follow through
Page 16
SAPIENS
- imagine (scribbled out)
- a new building starts as a STORY
about how big/shiny/whatever, from
which comes blueprints/models/art
-> this story is enough for hundreds
of people to work together for years
-Has Harari heard of capitalism?
-> or is work for money just about
imagining what that/$ could buy?
-> ew.
- neanderthals didn't have this ability, so
they didn't organize, so they're gone.
IOAWNAT - Calvino
- What a weird way to start a book.
- Alternating Chapters: chapter 1 od a pile
or differnt books, then a continuation
of you, the reader, trying to read a
goddamned book without having to start
another new one.
- POSTMODERNISM!!!
- maybe more "clever" than "good", per se.
- "you" the protagonist (trying to get through
a book) - "male" as defauly yay.
- Ludmilla (& later her sister Lotaria) -
object of desire or whatever. The original
manic pixie dreamgirl?
- 2nd person narrative chapters will pick up
thematic hooks from the preceeding
"Action" chapter... (never directly
referenced, though)
- the sex scene would be amazing if
Calvino's gender politics weren't so
boring.
- we're chasing a story to survive -
through translation, transliteration,
forgery, human error/accident
-
Page 15
Sapiens - Youval Noah Harari
- how did homo sapiens outperform other
primates? Hwat's the fundimental thing?
- basic idea: we can CO-OPERATE in
LARGE GROUPS. Community! Interdepencency!
Kegger! (probably not)
- but what's the trick: IMAGINATION
- without imagination, animals can't concieve of
large-scale projects for which there's no current evidence.
-> so STORYTELLING is part of this,.
as the way we relate those imagined
ideas?
- Harari uses "king" as a fundimental
expression of thie idea - we don't need to
have seen/met the king in order to
all woprk towards the same common
cause
-> I liked this better when it wasn't
about patriarchy & servitude. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- "king" is a STORY. It's not the symbols
it's the narrative - divine power,
heredity, status, wealth...
- building blocks of civilation:
- imagine result of work
- storytell that outcome
- profit
- this is how we get our friends out to
a restaurant - there's no evidence that
we'll have fun, but we can picture it &
follow through
Page 16
SAPIENS
- imagine (scribbled out)
- a new building starts as a STORY
about how big/shiny/whatever, from
which comes blueprints/models/art
-> this story is enough for hundreds
of people to work together for years
-Has Harari heard of capitalism?
-> or is work for money just about
imagining what that/$ could buy?
-> ew.
- neanderthals didn't have this ability, so
they didn't organize, so they're gone.
