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I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
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Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#62This is a fantastic interview with Padgett Powell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell ), a writer of the Southern tradition. IMO, the two things that make it great ar how candid and fluid Powell's answers are and the hilariously Newspeak of the interviewer's questions. Powell was Don Barthelme's student, his analysis of Barthelme's main thrust here is worth the read alone. If you want to dig deeper on this…
It all kind of reaches an apotheosis when the interviewer makes the second big red pull quote one from their questions, instead of one from the author's answers. I couldn't believe it, I had to double check!
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#63“JMA: Does the prose voice that you adopt develop in parallel to the thematic concerns that you will tackle in a given work, or does it emerge as a result of other considerations?
PP: It emerges with no consideration for anything but the next correct word.”
PadgetGPT
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#64this will be the subject line of my next resignation email!
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#65This is a fantastic interview with Padgett Powell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padgett_Powell ), a writer of the Southern tradition. IMO, the two things that make it great ar how candid and fluid Powell's answers are and the hilariously Newspeak of the interviewer's questions. Powell was Don Barthelme's student, his analysis of Barthelme's main thrust here is worth the read alone. If you want to dig deeper on this…
I found this interview almost unreadable, but I'm also quite sure I'm not the target audience for it despite being a pretty avid reader.
I find the author almost unlikeable!
He acts like an actual author - under-acknowledged, cloyingly clever, desperate for attention
instead of an author fantasy - cool, knowledgeable, enmeshed in the subject to the point of unselfconsciousness
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#66>Black and white
Tell us what you really think, loxist
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#67Very interesting interview, but aside from that – what a true joy to read an article with so many words I'd never even seen before!
verisimilitudinously!
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not just similitude. It's veri . Similitude.
I know you're joking but it may confuse people: It's veri (the truth, e.g. verily , verify ) + similitude : something that seems like truth, but is not truth - otherwise we'd just call it truth .
>something that seems like truth, but is not truth - otherwise we'd just call it truth.
Not really. Something is verisimilar when it has the appearance of truth, or is likely to be true, regardless of whether it is in fact true. In Spanish, verosímil ('verisimilar') is rather frequently used in contexts in which one hypothesizes about the trueness of claims or statements, especially when it cannot be verified at that very moment, or ever.
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#69> I received an email from a colleague who wanted me to talk to the Dean that opened, “Is it time for us to have a chat with the dean? Are we remembering what was promised us, last spring, at lunch? Are we going to let history repeat itself?” I suffered pique at this and wrote back, “Are your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable? How do you stand in relation to the potato? Should it still be Constantinople?” Lor…
Should I read anything into this other than the response making fun of the tone of the original message?
Re: I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found this interview almost unreadable, but I'm also quite sure I'm not the target audience for it despite being a pretty avid reader.
I find the author almost unlikeable! He acts like an actual author - under-acknowledged, cloyingly clever, desperate for attention instead of an author fantasy - cool, knowledgeable, enmeshed in the subject to the point of unselfconsciousness
I found the interviewer comes across as incredibly pretentious. I can’t stand this style of writing, he is trying way too hard.