tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post8220828283172919070..comments2024-03-28T15:01:12.582+00:00Comments on The little white attic : My 10 favourite East Asian films Hai Di Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-1771642627908018122016-04-06T23:52:41.582+01:002016-04-06T23:52:41.582+01:00Hahaha, yeah.
I haven't seen Yojimbo. Will, t...Hahaha, yeah. <br />I haven't seen <i>Yojimbo</i>. Will, though. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-25434603030598712322016-04-03T16:38:18.880+01:002016-04-03T16:38:18.880+01:00...but why should it be "weird"? Isn'......but why should it be "weird"? Isn't that the point? ... What he does then challenges our conventional ideas about what a book of this type ought to be... <br /><br />I like Yojimbo.nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-80867268075124796052016-04-03T15:49:56.447+01:002016-04-03T15:49:56.447+01:00Hahaha.
I don't think I'd be surprised, a...Hahaha. <br />I don't think I'd be surprised, actually. Isn't the book already weird? Ishmael already writes 2 chapters about pictures of whales. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-49479411480939597992016-04-02T15:37:37.048+01:002016-04-02T15:37:37.048+01:00Amidst all these chapters on whales and whaling in...Amidst all these chapters on whales and whaling in 'Moby Dick,' suppose running into a chapter titled, "My Ten Favourite East Asian Prints" (as i imagine there were no films back then) ... what would you make of it? Would you let it slide as a printing mistake? ... But suppose you found it in all other editions too, what then? Would you now perhaps look at it as a joke on the author’s part? … Depends on whose list you would call it, anyway, the author’s or Ishmael's … Now suppose one of the prints mentioned in the list was Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' (even better, some whale related print) … what about it now? Would you call the whole thing more ‘plausible’ now, less of an aberration? … And while you are at it also imagine ‘intelligent’ people saying countless ‘intelligent’ things about it! What a hoot! ;)<br /><br />p.s. Sorry. Took me several attempts to get it right. However, it’s interesting to see how our ideas of what we mean by the novel, or the author, are affected by something like this…nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.com