Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy
PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction. Joined October 2010-
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Are there any lines of a poem that just describe the emotional aftereffects of a past break up perfectly for you?
the best way out is always through. —Robert Frost
Absolutely everyone who reads Nietzsche begins at first by pronouncing his name as though he were a small and rare Chinese fruit.
Someone has been reading his Nietzsche.
how little of vocabulary man really [needs] to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple clichés [serve] his few simple passions and needs and lusts —William Faulkner
It cannot only be me who sees that the phrase "wrong side of history" is painfully reductive. Can it?
I feel like the most impossible literary ranking imaginable for me would be to choose a favourite play by this man.
The greater the number of editors the greater the chance of making.......
She’ll always do it. I think it’s her quiet, private, personal voice.
She’ll always do it. I think it’s her quiet, private, personal voice.
Exactly. Compassion is a network of fellow feeling connecting all things of the world in a deeply underlying, profound sense and experience that existence involves suffering. I don’t think anyone could imagine literature taking place without this. It excludes nothing.
Exactly. Compassion is a network of fellow feeling connecting all things of the world in a deeply underlying, profound sense and experience that existence involves suffering. I don’t think anyone could imagine literature taking place without this. It excludes nothing.
Interesting little point here. I think this is considered reductive (by some) because we reductively define compassion. Compassion is vast. It is not a single quality, precisely.
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@bernardtjoy People who are not German speakers should just have fun with it and other German names, too. Throw people off by pronouncing it Neets-shay or Nyetsha or Nyitschay or
@bernardtjoy This is so hard. Laughing. But I needed it.
@bernardtjoy Yes, but most of the time, when I’m thinking to myself “this would make a good story,” I’m having a bad time.
@bernardtjoy The creed of the gullible and the cry of the charlatan.
@bernardtjoy It would be interesting to analyse them, what draws us into the poem? Blake is addressing the Tyger directly, asking it a question. Others are descriptions of actions.
@bernardtjoy Don't shoot the messenger but I saw this in one of my Hemingway letters collections and instantly thought I had to show you 😅⬇️ Written 1932 to Evan Shipman, poet.
@bernardtjoy That's one of the normal ways of Anglicizing German surnames ending in E.
@bernardtjoy I listened to an audiobook a while back where the narrator pronounced Nietzshe "Neech-Key." OMG...
@bernardtjoy True. His mispronounced name sounds similar to a small South African fruit: a Naartjie (approximately, “Nart-she”).
"wrong side of history" is eschatologically smug
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@aimeeterese "right side of history" is such a vulgar, bullying phrase. Eschatologically smug
@bernardtjoy He, Kafka, and probably Proust, are my favorite writers and I still can't pronounce his name correctly 🤣
@bernardtjoy "Not a cloud in the sky got the sun in my eyes and I won't be surprised if it's a dream." ~ John Bettis 🎶
@bernardtjoy 🙋🏼♀️ I did not know how to say it correctly until I heard it pronounced in a movie 🫣
@bernardtjoy Not me, first time I've read Nietzsche, my thought was gesundheit. - Nietzsche! - Gesundheit.
@bernardtjoy No, not me. I learned the correct pronunciation at the start. I can see it might not come easily for some, though - same with Goethe.