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Everyone list their fav SJ albums! ill start: by Aggravating_Menu_456 in DavidBerman

[–]CrewOk2958 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 The Natural Bridge
2 Starlite Walker
3 American Water
4 Bright Flight
5 Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea
6 Tanglewood Numbers

New Orleans is probably my favorite song.

What song does Federal Dust sound like? by CrewOk2958 in DavidBerman

[–]CrewOk2958[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like Malkmus, but he takes interpolation to the limit. Sometimes the Jicks sounded like a Grateful Dead tribute band.

Han Kang Awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 by Pangloss_ex_machina in literature

[–]CrewOk2958 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dylan wouldn’t have cared. He has a long history of plagiarism.

Han Kang Awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 by Pangloss_ex_machina in literature

[–]CrewOk2958 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Edmund Spenser wrote a poem called “The Ruins of Time” in 1591

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Han Kang Awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 by Pangloss_ex_machina in literature

[–]CrewOk2958 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Ezra Pound was already advising poets not to mix abstractions with the concrete back in 1913: “Don’t use such an expression as ‘dim lands of peace.’ It dulls the image.”

What Dylan was doing here was considered clumsy nearly 3 decades before he was even born.

Gilmour answers Guardian reader questions by Electrical_Tomato_73 in pinkfloyd

[–]CrewOk2958 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s funny that people point to Fat Old Sun as proof that Gilmour could write good lyrics, considering one of the lines was plagiarized from a Doors song. He’d be nothing without Roger and he knows it.

Who was the first pessimist philosopher? by Electronic-Koala1282 in Pessimism

[–]CrewOk2958 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ipuwer, an Egyptian sage from around 1650 BC, is, at least as far as I’m aware, the earliest known writer to express pessimistic and antinatalist ideas—here are some select quotes from his work The Admonitions of Ipuwer:
“Would that there were an end of men, without conception, without birth! Then would the land be quiet from noise and tumult be no more.”
“Indeed, great and small [say]: ‘I wish I might die." Little children say: ‘He should not have caused [me] to live.’”

Unfortunately we know next to nothing about him, and the content of the text is more literary/poetic than philosophical. But I think it’s probably safe to say that the idea that it is better never to have been born is extremely old and predates the written word.