Comments on: Numbered Notes

By: yami

yami — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:22:00 +0000

Huh, I thought it tasted much less orange than regular mac’n’cheez, let alone regular mac’n’cheez with a superabundance of cheez powder and no margarine in the fridge.
And I’d argue that the Borges anti-classification in fact lies at the very heart of any possible vanitypedia, or at least forms part of an orthogonal basis for the space of all such.

By: des

des — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:15:00 +0000

1) It was the most orange taste I’ve experienced without pharmaceutical assistance, actually.
2) A vanityp a, how charmingly ‘98.
The guide is already there. The canonical Borges anti-classification pre-emptively undermines any such project (which might be good or bad according to taste). If I really wanted to do this I would probably have to be someone else, but I might still end up going for Gravity’s Rainbow, which has more stuffness in it than any other novel I’ve ever read (with the possible exception of Tristram Shandy, which would make a good back-up).

By: ester

ester — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:59:00 +0000

there’s certainly more straight info to be found in Sophie’s World but reading Sophie’s World is like trying to breathe on the top of a very tall mountain. whereas reading Hitchhiker’s induces gasping not from having too little atmosphere but rather from being hilarious.