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Forum: World Events 12-17-2014
Replies: 13
Views: 11,264
Posted By Viva June
Re: Writers Battle Amazon

I closed my Amazon account years ago and used to be quite proud of the fact. Imagine my surprise when I learned that AbeBooks, where I have made nearly all my purchases since then, is in fact just an...
Forum: Off Topic 01-02-2014
Replies: 7
Views: 6,531
Posted By Viva June
Re: Bookshops in London?

Please visit Peter Harrington at 100 Fulham Road and report back to me. They have an amazing inventory if my AbeBooks searches are anything to go by. Nothing in there costs less than £100, so you...
Forum: General Discussion 02-06-2013
Replies: 18
Views: 31,065
Posted By Viva June
Re: Translating Zapffe's On the Tragic.

A very commendable undertaking. I once promised to try something similar and never delivered so much as a foreword, and so I'll refrain from that kind of grandstanding this time around. However, I...
Forum: Philosophy 01-24-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

Yes, it will probably require three or four.

To counter your proof by counterexample, I would split the hair further and point out that masochists in fact experience pain as pleasure (a...
Forum: Philosophy 01-23-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

Reading this has intensified the gnawing feeling I have of having made a mistake somewhere, but I'm still not convinced you have the right error. Mainly, I suspect the argument is downright senseless...
Forum: Philosophy 01-23-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

How so? Just to clarify, (i) is intended to be categorical, as in "all suffering is undesirable". Don't get me wrong, I may well have messed it up; I actually can't even tell for sure. Serves me...
Forum: Philosophy 01-23-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

My apologies for misrepresenting your views. What I should have said was that in your argument the absence of everything includes the presence of potentiality, which is still incompatible with the...
Forum: General Discussion 01-23-2013
Replies: 145
Views: 62,161
Posted By Viva June
Re: I just don't get . . .

a) M. R. James. Read a few stories, found them to be quite boring, couldn't care less about the misfortunes of gentleman scholars who take extended vacations in the Alps just to steal things from...
Forum: Philosophy 01-22-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

Again, you fail to recognise that the antinalist argument doesn't rely on there being actual entities who feel one way or another about the prospect of existence. Talk of the unborn and so on is just...
Forum: Philosophy 01-21-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

Forgive me if I sound snide, but I think you fail to consider the implications of your own argument. What is the antinatalist's claim? Simply that there can be no harm in not existing. In response to...
Forum: Philosophy 01-21-2013
Replies: 77
Views: 51,596
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins.

So the first of these arguments is meant as a serious counter to the antinatalist claim, and the second one is just a joke? That's confusing, since to me they seem to be the exact same argument,...
Forum: General Discussion 01-02-2013
Replies: 8
Views: 6,945
Posted By Viva June
Re: Any Icelandic Weird Fiction Recommendations?

There is the pseudonymous Sjón, whose novels are written up by broadsheet reviewers (and off by me) as magic realism. Two of them are available in English: From the Mouth of the Whale and The Blue...
Forum: Musicians 12-11-2012
Replies: 533
Views: 172,752
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Saddest Music in the World

Right, contemporary indie really is the saddest music in the world.
Forum: General Discussion 11-28-2012
Replies: 19
Views: 21,620
Posted By Viva June
Re: pessimistic/nihilistic thinkers thread

Jakob Elias Poritzky is a recent discovery of mine. The "preface" to his debut collection of interlinked stories reads as follows (allowing for the usual reservations regarding my translation...
Forum: General Discussion 11-28-2012
Replies: 19
Views: 21,620
Posted By Viva June
Re: pessimistic/nihilistic thinkers thread

I think it will have to be translated into German first.
Forum: Rants & Ravings 11-05-2012
Replies: 12
Views: 7,732
Posted By Viva June
Re: Private mythologies

My private mythology is one in which I'm a decent sort of person.
Forum: Other Authors 10-25-2012
Replies: 45
Views: 21,765
Posted By Viva June
Re: "Quiet" Writers

I doubt I do. It's true, though, that Magnus is positively radiating dannelse. I bet he doesn't even listen to metal.
Forum: Other Authors 10-25-2012
Replies: 45
Views: 21,765
Posted By Viva June
Re: "Quiet" Writers

This reminds me of a somewhat recent trend in non-fiction, of writers exploring a subject, usually natural or urban history, by way of its periphery: walking along dreary arterial roads, say, to...
Forum: Other Authors 10-24-2012
Replies: 45
Views: 21,765
Posted By Viva June
Re: "Quiet" Writers

I was just about to say that The Go-Between is an excellent example of, to reverse Sand's phrase, "quiet incident". Writing about the past from his vantage point in the present, the narrator is able...
Forum: Various 08-21-2012
Replies: 22
Views: 14,723
Posted By Viva June
Re: The Best Live Album?

Vital by Van der Graaf. From what I understand, conventional wisdom at the time had it that VdGG were a mediocre live act. But when I listen to this album and the BBC sessions, I get the impression...
Forum: Literature 05-02-2012
Replies: 21
Views: 16,290
Posted By Viva June
Re: Librarything

I just started doing this, come be my special book friend or something: Ingenlunde (http://www.librarything.com/profile/Ingenlunde). My library, of which about half has been added so far, is far from...
Forum: General Discussion 04-26-2012
Replies: 65
Views: 55,382
Posted By Viva June
Re: What other central european authors do you read?

This is great news, even if it means I missed my chance of being the one who introduced the English-speaking world to Tor Ulven. Replacement (or, as I would have called it, had I been smart enough to...
Forum: Various 12-18-2011
Replies: 33
Views: 19,439
Posted By Viva June
Re: Love Songs

For simplicity and straightforwardness I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8KBTpOkek

Muffled drums, a lone guitar, a resonant voice capable of making certain clichés seem both...
Forum: Items Wanted 12-07-2011
Replies: 43
Views: 21,732
Posted By Viva June
Re: The reprints you're looking for

The works of Jocelyn Brooke. I think only The Scapegoat is still in print.
Forum: Themed Quotations 11-08-2011
Replies: 97
Views: 44,019
Posted By Viva June
Re: Great Opening Lines

Ezechiel von Marx was the best somnambulist I have seen in my life.
—Gustav Meyrink: "The Secret of Hathaway Castle"

Death has a bad memory.
—Sophus Michaëlis: The Dance of Death

Edith loved...
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