Just as Kraus’s densely argued texts deplore the mechanization of verse, so Franzen’s unstructured exegeses attempt to summon a similar abhorrence of the digitization of the novel.
Maybe Leopardi’s point is that for some things, for some dimidiate things, “happiness” is plain “living”?
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“The Star-Spangled Banner,” by contrast, is bombastic anacreontic macaronic pseudomartial beer hall music.
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Since the originals of Carver’s stories are often two or three times longer than the canonical versions, what Lish did to them (and gloated about doing to them) requires another verb. Not “edit” but “traduce,” “violate,” “molest.”
Fiction has long been described in the terms of a coeval technology, at least since the fade of the vacuum tube, but it was the genius of the systems novelists to produce fiction expressly along the same schematics
