tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post574897560986326336..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: a plea for a natural history of traffic jamsRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-41305654993618325742007-08-30T19:00:00.000+02:002007-08-30T19:00:00.000+02:00LI, your brother has a point. After all, an essent...LI, your brother has a point. After all, an essential aspect of the descent - geworfenheit! - into the maelstrom of the traffic jam is its everydayness.<BR/>Thanks for the reminder re the Thurber piece on Garbo and Mickey Mouse. Say, do you recall Thurber writing anything re Louise Brooks?<BR/><BR/>(If I were to compare the good Dr.Z to a film star from that era, rather than Garbo I'd pick Adolphe Menjou.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-55004608244593783172007-08-30T16:53:00.000+02:002007-08-30T16:53:00.000+02:00Oh no - a Lacanian analysis of The Owl in the Atti...Oh no - a Lacanian analysis of The Owl in the Attic! Dominic, kill me now.<BR/><BR/>Actually, I have nothing against the good Dr. Zizek, I just think there is too much of a too muchness of him on the theoryblogs. I'm a big Derrida man myself, but I try to honor his spirit by not relating everything in the known world to the guy. Of course, Derrida didn't spend his time on earth emitting his opinion of Flash Dance or the latest op ed outrage, either. I like that. I like the distance. <BR/><BR/>Now that I think about it, there is a Thurber piece all about this, the one in which he has a fight with his wife over who is the better actor, Greta Garbo or Mickey Mouse. We postmoderns, who can see further, have settled the question once and for all in favor of Betty Boop, of course, but the point of the Thurber essay, I think, was: I'm tired of Garbo.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-62210952893770919782007-08-30T14:49:00.000+02:002007-08-30T14:49:00.000+02:00wouldn't it be sweet if there was more talk of Thu...<EM>wouldn't it be sweet if there was more talk of Thurber on the blogs and, perhaps, a tad less talk of, say, Zizek?</EM><BR/><BR/>Any more cracks like that, and I shall essay a Zizekian reading of Thurber, just to annoy you. If nothing else, it would be a good excuse to re-read Thurber.Dominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17939466948420020186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-31156876842544843142007-08-30T06:32:00.000+02:002007-08-30T06:32:00.000+02:00Amie, wouldn't it be sweet if there was more talk ...Amie, wouldn't it be sweet if there was more talk of Thurber on the blogs and, perhaps, a tad less talk of, say, Zizek? ho ho ho.<BR/><BR/>My brother's comment - my brother who owns the big black truck - is: people are going to wonder how come you haven't been in a traffic jam for five years. As an Atlantan, he considers this unimaginable, and perhaps the most shameful confession a man can make.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-60980969665049311522007-08-30T02:12:00.000+02:002007-08-30T02:12:00.000+02:00LI, let me be the first of many undoubtedly, to no...LI, let me be the first of many undoubtedly, to nominate this post for the Blogorama's Thurber Award. If the award doesn't exist damn it, perhaps General Motors and/or the New Yorker could sponsor it. The prob with that could be that the award might consist of an shiny SUV or a subscription to the estimable magazine, ergo, in either case, a large quantity of noxious gas.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, after such Denken und Dicthen, you should at the very least be treated to some serious Trinken. How you interpret Jimmy's line re martinis is your privilege as a Thurber Award winner!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com