A group of people just asked me what verisimilitude was, now I'm excited to come back and tell them about verisimilitudinously.
Next up is probably vicissitudes, then
I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
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#22A group of people just asked me what verisimilitude was, now I'm excited to come back and tell them about verisimilitudinously.
It's not just similitude. It's veri. Similitude.
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#23I'd like that on my tombstone....
i know a good engraver.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really "Newspeak" at all; if anything, it's the opposite. Newspeak had limited vocabulary. The interviewer is using a bunch of ten-dollar words. Still, interesting interview! I might read some Padgett Powell at some point because of this.
It's an interesting contrast, because Ah-Sen is an experimental formalist, and his questions progress from that point of view, whereas Powell is (hilariously) ... not. (As this feels like a Q&A-by-email with all the questions submitted en bloc, Ah-Sen probably didn't get a chance to adapt his questions, and their theoretical foundation, to Powell's responses, lending to the surrealistic air.)
It also might be worth noting that both pull quotes are things that Ah-Sen said in the questions, instead of things that Powell said in response.
Some interviewers aim to help to tell their subjects’ stories, but others are looking for a reason to hear themselves speak. This feels like the latter case.
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#25(meta) the site is a dream. It can be browsed without css/js.
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#26A group of people just asked me what verisimilitude was, now I'm excited to come back and tell them about verisimilitudinously.
True! Really?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an interesting contrast, because Ah-Sen is an experimental formalist, and his questions progress from that point of view, whereas Powell is (hilariously) ... not. (As this feels like a Q&A-by-email with all the questions submitted en bloc, Ah-Sen probably didn't get a chance to adapt his questions, and their theoretical foundation, to Powell's responses, lending to the surrealistic air.)
It also might be worth noting that both pull quotes are things that Ah-Sen said in the questions, instead of things that Powell said in response. Some interviewers aim to help to tell their subjects’ stories, but others are looking for a reason to hear themselves speak. This feels like the latter case.
> It also might be worth noting that both pull quotes are things that Ah-Sen said in the questions, instead of things that Powell said in response.
One is from Powell, the other from Ah-Sen.
>> The attractive characteristic of a young narrator is the absurdity of it and the license of it. - Powell
>> The destiny of all books is to become unmoored from the time which birthed them. - Ah-Sen
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#28This is amazing. I wonder, is one allowed to speak like this in the Bay Area, or would this mark you as a deplorable to the kind of people who erase racism by erasing race.
Yes, you can speak like this. People are just going to think you're pretentious. This is the sort of language you use with specific audiences. The interviewer and the interviewee are simply using language for mutually exclusive audiences.
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#29That was a nice read. Thanks for posting!
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also might be worth noting that both pull quotes are things that Ah-Sen said in the questions, instead of things that Powell said in response. Some interviewers aim to help to tell their subjects’ stories, but others are looking for a reason to hear themselves speak. This feels like the latter case.
> It also might be worth noting that both pull quotes are things that Ah-Sen said in the questions, instead of things that Powell said in response. One is from Powell, the other from Ah-Sen. >> The attractive characteristic of a young narrator is the absurdity of it and the license of it. - Powell >> The destiny of all books is to become unmoored from the time which birthed them. - Ah-Sen
Also, shouldn't it be "berthed" not birthed?