[ExI] John C. Wright Interview

[Jef Allbright]

On Jan 25, 2008 6:17 PM, Randall Randall <randall at randallsquared.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> > At 04:12 PM 1/25/2008 -0800, Lee quoted Wright:
> >
> >> It ["Ulysses"] has the same relationship to a real novel as a
> >> Rorschach
> >>     blot has to a real painting. As in a Rorschach blot, any meaning,
> >>     including parallels to the Odyssey, can be invented freely by
> >> critics
> >>     and students of literature and shoehorned to fit.
> >>
> >> I'd really appreciate the opinion of anyone who's read the book,
> >> or has some
> >> independent knowledge about it.
> >
> > Does this look like gibberish to anyone except a Philistine?
>
> It's so *obviously* gibberish that I'm not sure if you're
> joking (because of the way you put it, here).  I get waves
> of spam that looks like that.

On the contrary, it's very coherent on one or more levels above the superficial.

- Jef