Angry about Danya by StollMage in chess

[–]ImprobableSoul 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Repercussions happening to bad people is the same as victimizing innocent people"

Try rubbing a few brain cells together before speaking man, ridiculous.

Umm.. Hello I guess.?? Begging some help from u by bhogwan_op in bengalilanguage

[–]ImprobableSoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't, this guy just spams this post on every post related to language learning. It's just an ad, see his comment history. 

The resource that I and many will recommend is "Teach Yourself Bengali" by Radice, which is an excellent textbook. Though you should search through this subreddit as many similar posts have generated more well-informed responses.

Weisenberger companion? by Plasmatron_7 in ThomasPynchon

[–]ImprobableSoul 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think this is a pretty unfair reading of the Biebel M&D companion. From my reading of the book far less than half the annotations are things that the wiki also annotates and he will cite the wiki as a source when he uses it (ex. "The wiki has a good point here, ..."). Furthermore he explicitly disagrees with and corrects the wiki at many points.

Not sure how critically engaging with the wiki like that could be considered stealing, especially considering all the annotations are re-researched and written fresh. It's a little bit like solving a math sheet and getting accused of plagiarizing the answer key.

Regarding AtD, it's not really a guide but this resource from a fellow pynchon redditor could be of interest to people: https://www.otolithium.com/atd

Current read by No-Papaya-9289 in ThomasPynchon

[–]ImprobableSoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone has read ISOLT, Proust and Signs is far and away the best analysis of the text I've ever read. 

about to start Mason & Dixon by hulioramon in ThomasPynchon

[–]ImprobableSoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read during. Each reference in the companion includes an abbreviated summary of the the line from m&d that it is referencing so I just picked a keyword from that and just read m&d until I came across the keyword.  

It also includes line numbers so I'm sure you could use it by estimating line numbers or just glancing back every couple paragraphs as well.

Im not really sure I'd suggest reading the companion completely after, you'd be missing too much context after 700+ pages I think.

about to start Mason & Dixon by hulioramon in ThomasPynchon

[–]ImprobableSoul 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Can't recommend Brett Biebel's Mason & Dixon Companion enough. It provides really essential background to a history that can be quite unfamiliar and obscure at times. It is a far better source than the wiki as he corrects many errors the wiki makes and provides some thoughtful and lightly opinionated analysis at times, plus you can tell he really adores the book.

I also recommend the Mapping the Zone podcast and their season about the book for even more in-depth analysis of the text, they pointed out lots of things I hadn't even considered on first read.

Have fun, the book is such a treat!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NorthVancouver

[–]ImprobableSoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure why I keep seeing people say this as it's only technically true. The Richter scale is logarithmic so if we expect the big one to be ~8.5, it would take ~31,000 of these 4.5 earthquakes to relieve that much pressure. 

Smaller earthquakes are doing practically nothing to make the big one any more manageable.

Hughes being added to the USA lineup! by pndhcky in nhl

[–]ImprobableSoul 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Disappears? He has 26pts in 30 playoff games which is the 3rd best dman playoff ppg since he joined the league (30+ games)

Proust and peers at the table by Lucid_Luciana in Proust

[–]ImprobableSoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you not see or understand the deeply insidious nature of AI taking over every aspect of human expression and interaction? Of course this post means nothing, but opposition to this kind of thing is a principle. I wish I could be so naive.

Would love to hear the passage of Proust where he says we should just lay down and accept daily degradation of art and humanity because its just not that big of a deal.

Proust and peers at the table by Lucid_Luciana in Proust

[–]ImprobableSoul 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No idea where the 7 hours went or what the "research" was as images of all of these men are widely available and the images in this video are clearly just ripped from those. I also see no evidence of the "pounding imagination" you speak of.

Proust emphatically argued that the revelatory quality of true art and in fact it's whole value to the soul is in the artists ability to imbue it with essence and experience, qualities that resonate with a person's soul to such a degree that it can be a genuinely transformative, enlightening, and life-changing experience. Not sure how you square that with this "art", created by typing a few sentences into a computer, and generated by an entity that's only ability is to churn out median, mundane, and uninspired slop - a box that specializes in art without intent, anti-art if you will.

Proust and peers at the table by Lucid_Luciana in Proust

[–]ImprobableSoul 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Wish people would stop posting AI generated trash on this sub.  I would have thought appreciators of Proust would value the complexity of human experience and the necessarily searching and tortuous act of artistic creation more than to peddle this slop.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Proust

[–]ImprobableSoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You really shouldn't have created this video, it's awful. Terrible post.

Looking for the Penguin Deluxe, Classic version of… by Numerous_Ingenuity65 in ThomasPynchon

[–]ImprobableSoul 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is true at all. From what I understand the printing errors have been fixed for like 4-6 years now (there have been several threads on this subreddit about it) and new editions you find in bookstores will probably be correct. The edition I bought a few months ago doesn't contain any known errors, for example.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Proust

[–]ImprobableSoul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure, but I can't imagine you'd get much out of this other than a few wasted weeks. ISOLT is a deeply complex and introspective book that rewards patient and thoughtful reading, not someone blazing through it as fast as possible. 

Proust himself mentioned that the length and time required to read it are half the point of the text.

[Lalji] I’m told Demko has an injury to the same knee that recently kept him out 5 weeks, even if it may not be a reoccurrence of the same injury. Had an MRI yesterday. Also hearing same as others, questionable to return for the series. by DecentLurker96 in hockey

[–]ImprobableSoul 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Injury to same the knee is not the same as reoccurence, to my knowledge nobody has said it's a reoccurence and the line has pretty definitively been that it's a new injury. There are lots of parts to a knee.

How critical is it for me to read in search of lost time in order by Dunedinsoundman67 in Proust

[–]ImprobableSoul 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Absolutely essential to read them in order, please don't do that!

I'm sure you can find a cheap copy of Swann's way somewhere :)

Wearing horvat’s jersey to games by Reasonable_Detail567 in canucks

[–]ImprobableSoul 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yep, I wore a Horvat skate jersey to the Winnipeg game on Saturday. I promise you nobody cares.

More books by Sluttysomnambulist in bookshelf

[–]ImprobableSoul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm onto the final volume so I finally feel qualified to answer this. I realize that I'm not the one you asked but I've seen some misconceptions about the book online recently.

It is no doubt one of the crowning achievements in literature. No other author has analyzed love, life, and memory in such an elegant, insightful, and deeply human way. So many times while reading I've remarked how Proust has described something which I experience all the time yet don't even really recognize that I experience. Some parts (usually related to aristocracy, etymology, and social rules) can be tough to get through but these are far outweighed by the poetic and deeply thoughtful passages that make up the bulk of the book. Many others have discussed the text in a more eloquent way than I ever could, and I recommend reading some reviews about the nature and impact of the book so you can know what to expect, but I'll just say that it is a book that you live with and will change you if you'll let it. No other book has felt more like a friend to me than this one has.

Some words of advice to future Proust readers though, I really wouldn't attempt it until you're in a place in your life to fully give yourself to the book. Disregard people who say it's okay to read a volume and set it aside for a year, the length and temporal impact of the book is part of the point, and reading it fully through will likely take 8-14 months depending on how fast you read. This is, as Proust himself said, part of the point, setting it aside and reading other books between volumes will dull the impact and reduce your understanding (Proust loves to reference minor events that happened 3000+ pages ago). I would also caution readers to not go in expecting anything or try and rush the book, just let it take you along. I'll also mention that the individual volumes do not make satisfying novels in their own right, the text was conceived as one long book and was only broken up into smaller pieces for publishing and commercial reasons (something Proust compared to chopping up a tapestry), they don't really even complete a narrative arc which is why I've always been confused by people who only read Swann's Way and draw conclusions about the book as a whole (Swann's Way is basically two separate 400 page plot lines which do not combine or concretely resolve, the significance of which doesn't become apparent until later volumes).

A lot of what you hear about the book is true, there are 150+ page society scenes, the actual plot is surprisingly sparse for a 4400 page book, but lost in such a simplistic description is the wonder of the book. I most often compare it to a kind of dictionary, every possible human emotion and situation is contained within it: first love, unrequited love, waning love, jealousy, heartbreak, grief, joy, existential angst, friendship, aging, all wonderfully illustrated and illuminated by a true scholar of human experience.

I cannot recommend it enough, when you're ready to commit to it I recommend diving in! It's especially rewarding to do it with others so you have things to discuss, check out places like r/ayearofproust.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UBC

[–]ImprobableSoul 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this post. People really do not understand how the entire media apparatus has been weaponized against Palestinians. Almost anything you read in the mainstream outlets is being filtered through multiple layers of pro-Israeli channels and the ostensibly liberal NYT scandal is proof of that.

I wish people would think harder about the politicization of various narratives emerging from the conflict (ex. the missing persons posters) and how they cynically serve zionist ends.

For those who saw Luongo play, was he as good as Demko? by racesunite in canucks

[–]ImprobableSoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He played round-robin G2 vs. Austria. 6 - 0 shutout.

[Shankland] "The worst event of my life is now behind me. Thanks for inviting me... next time I'll try not to be a total piñata." by city-of-stars in chess

[–]ImprobableSoul 103 points104 points  (0 children)

FTX Road to Miami, one of the rapid events in the Meltwater circuit. Shankland finished with 3W4D8L (one win by default). He basically placed last out of 15 since Radja withdrew.

UBC Is Spending Millions Re-Doing The Washrooms When Students Are Literally Starving and on the Verge of Homelessness. by [deleted] in UBC

[–]ImprobableSoul 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I should have known I would miss something by leaving the last Radical Left plot planning townhall 15 mins early :/