Comments on: Between knowledge and entertainment

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:21:13 +0000

Life-lesson rings similar to “lightning finds the shortest path.” Some things just are, in our perceptive realities, greater or less, than what we wished to find on our endeavors.

I like the message ^^

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:58:28 +0000

meganeshounen:

That was a horrible, horrible joke.

Baka-Raptor:

Because James Joyce speaks sense sometimes!

Good point. I’m actually only seeing that now.

By: meganeshounen

meganeshounen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:56:14 +0000

Well, if it takes a classicist to read classic novels…

… birds of the same feather? LOL

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:01:24 +0000

OMG

MEGANESHOUNEN HAS COME BACK

OMG

KOROSORA TOO!

/me touches everyone

korosora:

No, I’ll just get me to another nunnery. The one with the hot girls and all. :>

meganeshounen:

Some classics I’ve encountered are also quite impenetrable. Seriously. There are some that play with the reader too much, and I hate that.

By: meganeshounen

meganeshounen — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:27:03 +0000

If a writer’s ideas were oranges, then for me, classics are kinda like those packets of super concentrated orange juice powder. A bit too deep for me, and I need to dilute them in some other “medium” just to appreciate them.

A smaller example of the above analogy: some of the anime that have been turned into anime, like “Romeo and Juliet”.

Mind you, I did understand the underlying plot of “Romeo and Juliet”. I think.

By: korosora

korosora — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:37:06 +0000

Ummmmm, get the to a nunnery.
And have fun with the fun nuns.

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:26:53 +0000

You had to kick it off with James Joyce…

Apparently there was a huge depth vs. entertainment debate in the anime blogging community a while back. I don’t see why you should have to choose, but if I did, I’d come out squarely on the side of entertainment. The way I see it:

Depth – Entertainment = Work

And nobody likes work.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:35:23 +0000

Oh, my bad. So you mean that was ORIGINAL CONTENT!? I’m really sorry.

By: Lelangir

Lelangir — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:34:37 +0000

NO “SERENDIPITY THEORY” IS MIINNEEEE. Barthes coined lots of stuff but not that.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:27:41 +0000

Yeah, I needed to clear that up.

The ones I mentioned that possessed a lot of depth and meaning was from the point of view of the general consensus. Most of the time, a general agreement or disagreement of the people is a good starting block. My professor argued that even those supposedly simpler novels can have as much or even more meaning. It is because meaning solely emanates from the reader/observer/viewer. Meaning is infinite in that microcosm (using lelangir’s words) of the novel, it’s just that more meaning has been uncovered in some works than in others.

Lelangir pointed to me regarding Barthes’s serendipity theory, and he generally shares my beliefs. But I think we’ve cleared that up -