Good response, happy with that. Sorry about the implications, I think I just found it a fusty conservative choice. Had it been Infinite Jest and Chaucer I probably wouldn't have bothered responding. Sometimes the idea of 'classics' can seem... narrow and dull. Just wanted to mitigate the notion it was all brown bread (not that I don't love your suggestions tho')
silasmariner
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Why start there with British and US authors? Why not 100 years of solitude, Disgrace, and dream of red mansions?
Mark Knopfler had a good song about that - Boom Like That
For a month or two I still kept the app on my phone. As a memento.
Reddit's official UX experiences suck balls
That's bollocks, their first album was 2000
Edit: just checked, actually their first album was 1999. Although what they have to do with 50 shades of grey...
There's a difference between an advance that repudiates prior understanding and one that doesn't. You can, in maths - and I assume this is the point - know that you are right, in a way that you can't with a more... epistemological science. Of course it's more complex than that, and a lot of maths is pretty sciency, like deriving approximate solutions for PDEs is more experimental than you might imagine, but even though we might make improvements there, we'll never go 'oh actually those error bounds are wrong'. They might be non optimal but they'll never be wrong
I always maintain that Aristotle's notions of how to test theories of 'natural philosophy' are a reasonable starting point for 'science'
I don't think you're expected to see the moral choices made by characters in the culture as ones you yourself should pick given current reality. It's set against a rather different set of background conditions.
Haven't read any of those in an age. I liked it! Sentient wasps was fun, but a billion-year-old malevolent pseudo-virus that rapidly turned you into a military agent of an ancient and hugely destructive race was... less so.
The talking to Gods(or chairs or trees) bit is definitely the weirdest bit of psychosis because really you're only talking to yourself, and I've found I can kinda trick myself into revealing it's a psychotic episode by forcing revelation that my brain isn't prepared to fill in and it gets a bit obvious. Odd stuff, the mind.
He said a lot of conflicting things, people selected what they wanted to believe, and he's selecting what he wants to stand behind 😅
Not gonna double my response - OP deserved it more - I will say another 'fair enough', give you an upvote, and leave it at that