I could’ve sworn I had read this before, but I can’t be certain. Getting an odd sense of deja vu here. Maybe heard it on the podcast in the background and didn’t concentrate well enough?
Maybe my favourite short story ever. Def top 5. The story on which the incredible Dennis Vellenuve movie Arrival is based. Which is also my favorite movie. Basically I couldnt recommend this story enough!
I did have one issue with the movies ending, it completely flipped the philosophy of the story imo. What was meant to be an acceptance of fate and a deterministic view instead offered free will. Its still my favorite movie lol but that change makes it different.
I have somehow not yet seen indepemdence day! Will get to that too. Would love to hear you top 3, movies and short stories.
Oh I forgot, Ryan Gosling is gonna be in the project hail mary movie isn’t he. I wouldn’t expect much from it.
Oh no I seemed to have misphrased my original statememt. I font think the lead changes much barring the potential to get funded and marketing. And I do like Gosling. The reason I dont ecpect much is bc it appears to be a cash grab more than a project on it’s own.
Tho I will say I also loved External Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show and never liked any Jim Carrey movie.
I do like your choice of short stories, though I haven’t read ‘I don’t know timmy …’. Really think you would lobe Borges. You ought to search borges in this community and you’ll find some of his stories I’ve posted.
That’s funny, I was just talking about how the Usual Suspects has aged yesterday with a friend. That really is a very era specific taste!
Three nights in succession I had found myself in Great Britain-street at that hour, as if by Providence. Three nights also I had raised my eyes to that lighted square of window and speculated. I seemed to understand that it would occur at night. But in spite of the Providence that had led my feet, and in spite of the reverent...
So sorry I wasn’t on Lemmy for a while, so didn’t see this comment. Honestly I don’t think anyone should force themselves to like an author or a style, that’s what leads to people reading less. Read what you enjoy and occasionally venture further and try smth new.
As for why people love Joyce, the one important reason imo is how he essentially created stream of consciousness as a writing style which is an immersive way of writing and you get sucked into a characters mind. It can be taken for granted now since many have done it since and we got used to it, but it was as a revolutionart technique.
Then there’s his precise lyrical prose. This could be subjective but most people do tend to enjoy the powerful prose he writes.
I wanna say symbolism too, but everyone does that. But you will definitely have a more rewarding experience if you remember Joyce purposefully uses symbolism, and uses it well.
If and that’s a not if, you want to retry Joyce go for Araby or Eveline, smth short.
Both short, both powerful.
Summary: potential spoilers
Araby: ‘Araby’ is narrated by a young boy, who describes the Dublin street where he lives. As the story progresses, the narrator realises that he has feelings for his neighbour’s sister and watches her from his house, daydreaming about her, wondering if she will ever speak to him. When they eventually talk, she suggests that he visit a bazaar, Araby, on her behalf as she cannot go herself.
The boy plans to buy her a present while at Araby, but he arrives late to the bazaar and, disappointed to find that most of the stalls are packing up, ends up buying nothing.
Eveline: Eveline is a young woman living in Dublin with her father. Her mother is dead. Dreaming of a better life beyond the shores of Ireland, Eveline plans to elope with Frank, a sailor who is her secret lover (Eveline’s father having forbade Eveline to see Frank after the two men fell out), and start a new life in Argentina.
With her mother gone, Eveline is responsible for the day-to-day running of the household: her father is drunk and only reluctantly tips up his share of the weekly housekeeping money, and her brother Harry is busy working and is away a lot on business (another brother, Ernest, has died).
Eveline herself keeps down a job working in a shop. On Saturday nights, when she asks her father for some money, he tends to unleash a tirade of verbal abuse, and is often drunk. When he eventually hands over his housekeeping money, Eveline has to go to the shops and buy the food for the Sunday dinner at the last minute.
Eveline is tired of this life, and so she and Frank book onto a ship leaving for Argentina. But as she is just about to board the ship, Eveline suffers a failure of resolve, and cannot go through with it. She wordlessly turns round and goes home, leaving Frank to board the ship alone.
Not All Rot Is Ruin – E.A. Petricone (magazine.metaphorosis.com)
Carley Thorne, "Permission to Pause" (www.cbc.ca)
Araby by James Joyce (www.plato-philosophy.org)
You Perfect, Broken Thing by C.L Clark (www.uncannymagazine.com)
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (www.newyorker.com)
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (fyp.uoregon.edu)
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Three nights in succession I had found myself in Great Britain-street at that hour, as if by Providence. Three nights also I had raised my eyes to that lighted square of window and speculated. I seemed to understand that it would occur at night. But in spite of the Providence that had led my feet, and in spite of the reverent...
Why do people buy kindles instead of just reading books on their tablets or phones?
I’ve never used one but it struck me as odd that people would use a seperate device for smth so easily done on your phone....