Udhay Shankar N said the following on 22/07/2007 08:59:
And also Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_, at the risk of offending Rishab.
:) I started that book at least 3 times before giving up for good.
I managed to read about 50 pages before giving up. Interestingly, Iqbal
Masud (the film reviewer)
Udhay Shankar N said the following on 22/07/2007 08:59:
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: [ on 12:10 AM 7/22/2007 ]
I got rid of the book as soon as I decently could, byt gifting it to
Herr Doktor Kelty - on the reasoning that he ought to be immune to its
effects by now [1].
Udhay
[1]
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:14:18AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On 7/22/2007 11:04 AM, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
but the interesting thing about Foucault's Pendulum is that it is
interleaved with passages of amazing lucidity.
Right. Just *what* do you have to smoke in order to make
On 7/21/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
also,
section 63 starts with a quote from Heller's Catch 22
And I presume the instances of 'if' sprinkled throughout the book are
tributes to Kipling?
Thats
--
Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy.
And I presume the instances of 'if' sprinkled throughout the book are
tributes to Kipling?
please expand.
are you indicating that trying to see significance in the actual source of a
quoted text is a meaningless exercise? as meaningless as reading the usage
of if as a homage to Kipling?
one
Abhishek Hazra wrote:
And also Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_, at the risk
Could I borrow any of the books mentioned in the didn't get it list in
this thread? Very curious now...
Venkat
On 7/22/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I presume the instances of 'if' sprinkled throughout the book are
tributes to Kipling?
please expand.
are you indicating that trying to see significance in the actual source of a
quoted text is a meaningless exercise? as meaningless as
it is immaterial how many clever
references to other work a book makes, if it is unintelligible to a
vast majority of readers or ghastly to read
okay. agree with this at a general level. a lifeless recitation of smart
references might not make an engaging text. but then again, 'engagement' is
a
On Monday 23 Jul 2007 8:21 am, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
narrative might re-deploy these references in a different way within its
own structure. so even though an awareness of the reference might have
opened up another level of reading, a lack of it doesn't foreclose
engagement.
I love this :)
