Here - in Ireland - at least in Dublin - we’ve no end of Joyceans - not improbable that some of them - on this cold, grey day in early January - have already begun counting down the days to June the 16th …… 🥸
@@oskar5724 Some are prophecising the internet will soon be so full of AI produce, creative, nonsensical, regurgitations and fabrications, that it will basically be useless and unnavigatable: Oskur and Oshar reading James Boyces view, on Timbuktu... Perhaps there is hope in an Internet 2.0?
Succinct, candid, and yet respectful in that old-school British way. Would love to see if Joyce responded, and what he said. In the internet age, things would probably turn totally toxic and vicious. Although Wells would have been the one to actually imagine and predict such a future device. I still write letters to friends and family, which makes me a relic of the past. I enjoy that status!
I don’t think he did, although I could be wrong. But he did send a copy of WIP to Wells as in the thumbnail in hope of a promo for FW (as he did unsuccessfully with Einstein), because I suppose Wells was the big (but also somewhat out there content-wise?) English writer of the day. I did think while reading this that it’s sad that very few contemporary writers will give rise to a ‘collected letters’ after their death. Perhaps not even a collected emails. Writers used to produce short but often intriguing texts that they might have imagined would circulate post-mortem in a way that most contemporary writers don’t.
Well, well, well, Wells is a brilliant but ultimately minor writer, artistically speaking. Joyce is the definition of a major writer, artistically speaking. Most days I would rather read Wells because of my restricted time. But oh gee, "the delusion of political suppression" is British arrogance at its most repulsive, despite the qualifying self-exposure and critique of British imperialism. But Wells could be quite repulsive at times, at others, a prophet. Good stuff. I imagine this was an AI voice.
Yeah I’m definitely not on Wells side here. Although it’s an interesting forking path. I know I put on a hammy posh English accent but why do people think this is AI 😂
@@oskar5724 I find Wells to be elegant, clear and highly intelligent. I've never heard Joyce speak, but I doubt he could match Wells. Are Joyce's works among the best, i don't know. But Iwould guess that 99 percent of people don't know as well and never will.
@@kensilverstone1656 , Yet you seem to "know" a lot about what you don't know so, in your own words, you seem to be with the 99 percent of don't knows. You are not, by chance, a "writer" are you?
Wow.
Very true!
Politics of suppression and politics of responsibility-they remain mighty delusions today!
Here - in Ireland - at least in Dublin - we’ve no end of Joyceans - not improbable that some of them - on this cold, grey day in early January - have already begun counting down the days to June the 16th …… 🥸
Is our friend Mr AI at play here?
Two people think this is AI. Which is very worrying for the state of AI
@@oskar5724 Some are prophecising the internet will soon be so full of AI produce, creative, nonsensical, regurgitations and fabrications, that it will basically be useless and unnavigatable: Oskur and Oshar reading James Boyces view, on Timbuktu...
Perhaps there is hope in an Internet 2.0?
Joyce is concerned with elegance and history, lotsa history in that book of subliminal Dubliner dialect, though so funny to hear HG's take.
That's strong tobacco.
Harsh. Not wrong though.
Succinct, candid, and yet respectful in that old-school British way. Would love to see if Joyce responded, and what he said. In the internet age, things would probably turn totally toxic and vicious. Although Wells would have been the one to actually imagine and predict such a future device. I still write letters to friends and family, which makes me a relic of the past. I enjoy that status!
I don’t think he did, although I could be wrong. But he did send a copy of WIP to Wells as in the thumbnail in hope of a promo for FW (as he did unsuccessfully with Einstein), because I suppose Wells was the big (but also somewhat out there content-wise?) English writer of the day. I did think while reading this that it’s sad that very few contemporary writers will give rise to a ‘collected letters’ after their death. Perhaps not even a collected emails. Writers used to produce short but often intriguing texts that they might have imagined would circulate post-mortem in a way that most contemporary writers don’t.
A pithy retort to modernism in general.
Well, well, well, Wells is a brilliant but ultimately minor writer, artistically speaking. Joyce is the definition of a major writer, artistically speaking. Most days I would rather read Wells because of my restricted time. But oh gee, "the delusion of political suppression" is British arrogance at its most repulsive, despite the qualifying self-exposure and critique of British imperialism. But Wells could be quite repulsive at times, at others, a prophet. Good stuff. I imagine this was an AI voice.
Yeah I’m definitely not on Wells side here. Although it’s an interesting forking path. I know I put on a hammy posh English accent but why do people think this is AI 😂
@@oskar5724 They don't know the field from the cold steel rail maybe. Great reading !
@@oskar5724 I find Wells to be elegant, clear and highly intelligent. I've never heard Joyce speak, but I doubt he could match Wells. Are Joyce's works among the best, i don't know. But Iwould guess that 99 percent of people don't know as well and never will.
@@oskar5724 , And ,as always, when you come to a"forking path"-- take it! Or so said the infamous "Yogi."
@@kensilverstone1656 , Yet you seem to "know" a lot about what you don't know so, in your own words, you seem to be with the 99 percent of don't knows. You are not, by chance, a "writer" are you?
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