tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post5770895552357636553..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: Watching from a DistanceADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-83957717565470149332010-05-08T14:33:17.538-04:002010-05-08T14:33:17.538-04:00You captured one of the feelings that I too had up...You captured one of the feelings that I too had upon reading the Auletta piece, "Publish or Perish." I found it very interesting and yet... lacking. It was like reading an article about the logistics of health care delivery when you're really looking for medical advice.This post describes that feeling beautifully.<br /><br />There is, of course, a real publishing trade still going on, at the lower level, where the real action is usually happening. In this case, way under the level of the "Big Six" about whom Auletta mostly speaks. And that's where the <i>real</i> publishing action is these days, I suspect. But the state of the industry is intersting.<br /><br />Stats to follow...Moniquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10736499939969754097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-53063456439849596482010-05-08T08:45:39.602-04:002010-05-08T08:45:39.602-04:00I have read this post about 8 times, and it still ...I have read this post about 8 times, and it still has a keen fascination, probably because I became a fool for books early on in my career - I was about 4 years old.<br /><br />Books today seems like tombstones in an antique cemetery where we wander, gazing at the old inscriptions...<br /><br />But for me, Books are the trees in a virgin forest, incredibly old and incredibly young, waiting in the furthest reaches of Siberia... where the ideas are discoveries always new and exciting...<br />And I am Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala", hunter and man of the forest, who discerns the trail of the books, and follows the tracks of freedom.<br /><br />Somehow - and I can't explain why - the new types of electro-books seem baneful to me. They are a new type of ironical Firemen of "Fahrenheit 451".Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-22103971490548223312010-05-07T13:38:27.698-04:002010-05-07T13:38:27.698-04:00Montag: In sleep I am a surrealist, and sometimes ...Montag: In sleep I <i>am</i> a surrealist, and sometimes catch the last trails of it if I sit down to write early enough. I once met Jerzy Kosiński at one of those author's get-togethers, by the way; I found it tough to get three words out of him. Soon after that he did himself in, which might explain his then surly humor... Best to walk out of one's nightmares -- even if it has to be on water...ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-4501019845389970562010-05-07T13:22:44.980-04:002010-05-07T13:22:44.980-04:00Does this illustrate our "Desire for Devices&...Does this illustrate our "Desire for Devices"?Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002034412151764344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-30786277037909873512010-05-07T11:52:10.727-04:002010-05-07T11:52:10.727-04:00Wonderful post; first Magritte in a white chair, t...Wonderful post; first Magritte in a white chair, then Chance Gardiner rising into the sky, then Nietzsche's Transformation ( twilight of the old & dawn of the new ).<br /><br />The transvaluation is very complicated, but is pregnant with possibilities.<br />Is not "Citizen Kane" a film of the same transformation? The publisher of the news transforms the News and the Public to serve his own desires?<br /><br />I agree they will pass. A book is much more robust.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com