How do you define what is considered "literature" or "literary?" My friend described my diary as "literature" once & I think I laughed. The idea of asynchronous emails reminds me of this thing I just read in Screwtape Letters, prayer being asynchronous. If you find out the solution to writing emails back, let me know, because I need the help. I always feel embarrassed when it takes me too long to reply.
Instead of TS Eliot's letters, I console myself with Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Sparse & stretched out letters, but there's still a heart to them. A heart like a central nervous system I mean. Something that unites them & keeps them together as one living entity.
I don't have a good definition of literature. For my own writing I am stuck in an attempt to make it fit into some kind of canon -- to be literature in the same way as things I liked in the past. But when I'm just reading things by other people, there seems to be no criteria at all -- just an emotional response.
I might check out Letters to a Young Poet, but I felt a little disappointed to discover that I am already roughly the same age that Rilke, the implied "Older Poet", was when he began writing the letters... I guess I've already lost my chance to be a "Young Poet"
would be curious how you'd design this game. coincidentally thought about the a similar thing, some metagame about building websites... the difficulty is choosing the objective. it'd be conceptually amusing though to boot up a game where you go on a computer day by day, handling emails and improving a website, but wouldn't be sure how to design it, or how it ends, or how it's fun. collect stats through surfing maybe
How do you define what is considered "literature" or "literary?" My friend described my diary as "literature" once & I think I laughed. The idea of asynchronous emails reminds me of this thing I just read in Screwtape Letters, prayer being asynchronous. If you find out the solution to writing emails back, let me know, because I need the help. I always feel embarrassed when it takes me too long to reply.
Instead of TS Eliot's letters, I console myself with Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Sparse & stretched out letters, but there's still a heart to them. A heart like a central nervous system I mean. Something that unites them & keeps them together as one living entity.
I don't have a good definition of literature. For my own writing I am stuck in an attempt to make it fit into some kind of canon -- to be literature in the same way as things I liked in the past. But when I'm just reading things by other people, there seems to be no criteria at all -- just an emotional response.
I might check out Letters to a Young Poet, but I felt a little disappointed to discover that I am already roughly the same age that Rilke, the implied "Older Poet", was when he began writing the letters... I guess I've already lost my chance to be a "Young Poet"
if you didn't have this website, what would be the next thing you'd work on?
@siqu probably making games about a guy with a website that looks exactly like mine
would be curious how you'd design this game. coincidentally thought about the a similar thing, some metagame about building websites... the difficulty is choosing the objective. it'd be conceptually amusing though to boot up a game where you go on a computer day by day, handling emails and improving a website, but wouldn't be sure how to design it, or how it ends, or how it's fun. collect stats through surfing maybe