Thread: (Why) Have we stopped reading fiction ?
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Old 03-04-2017   #47
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Re: (Why) Have we stopped reading fiction ?
@Robert Adam Gilmour: I don't know any intellectual clown except Zizek, and he's a rare case. I think you're referring to the witty intellectual. A clown degrades himself, blurts out crass jokes, acts ridiculous...things which no intellectual would do.
"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
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