futureimage Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 So my friend sent me this: http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-3.htm Read lines 15-17, actually sounds like Gantz Graf. We've had which painter best represents Ae, perhaps now it's time for best writer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Finnegans Wake is really odd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigs Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 joyce is, hands down, my favorite author of all time. i've only been through finnegan's wake (what he believed to be his masterpiece) once, but i've read portrait and ulysses many times over and both are truly stunning. i wouldn't say he shares anything with ae other than his constantly changing voice. i think t.s. eliot touches on a lot of what ae does sonically. both truly amazing artists! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Yeah my uncle has the first copy of the first edition of the American printing of Finnegan's Wake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigs Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 awesome! i saw some of the manuscripts for ulysses but that was in a museum setting. fuckin' cool. his aunt (or someone like that) had them stowed away in an attic for years haha. she had no idea anyone wanted them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jacck Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Dunno about fiction writers, but Wittgenstein is definitely the most Ae philosopher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 neat! 32 years later, someone tried to form actual words around Gnatz Graf: The symmetriad is a million - a billion, rather - raised to the power of _N_: it is incomprehensible. We pass through vast halls, each with a capacity of ten Kronecker units, and creep like so many ants clinging to the folds of breathing vaults and craning to watch the flight of soaring girders, opalescent in the glare of searchlights, and elastic domes which criss-cross and balance each other unerringly, the perfection of a moment, since everything here passes and fades, The essence of this architecture is movement synchronized towards a precise objective. We observe a fraction of the process, like hearing the vibration of a single string in an orchestra of supergiants. We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands and millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint. It has been described as a symphony in geometry, but we lack the ears to hear it. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, 1961 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bardamu Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Stanislaw Lem's depictions of Solaris often come to mind when I listen to ae. When I tell people I see "shapes" in the music, what I'm really trying to say is "I'm seeing symmetriads form and dissolve on the ocean of Solaris..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 is that related to the movie? yeah it is. The book looks awesome though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 it's very good. Can only recommend. your avatar, where is that from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJW Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 This is an excellent observation, connecting James Joyce with Gantz Graf. Genius. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babar Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Not forgetting 'squarepusher' is a word made-up by Joyce (right ?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4e27JuWfI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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