Comments on: Dear Readers, you are all Platinum Members! http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/ "Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don’t know the vanity and the nothingness of writing." Kobo Abe Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: RMcC http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/comment-page-1/#comment-759 RMcC Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:33 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/#comment-759 just found this site / blog after reading the review in LRB. I can say its worth the £2.75 just for the story of John Huston trying to get Satre to write the screen play for Freud movie. As the Americans say "Who knew?" great review just found this site / blog after reading the review in LRB. I can say its worth the £2.75 just for the story of John Huston trying to get Satre to write the screen play for Freud movie. As the Americans say “Who knew?”
great review

]]> By: Yes. « FW http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Yes. « FW Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:28:50 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/#comment-756 [...] 6) Totally unrelated: my favorite future novelist Elif Batuman has a new article in the LRB and issue 7 of n+1. [...] [...] 6) Totally unrelated: my favorite future novelist Elif Batuman has a new article in the LRB and issue 7 of n+1. [...]

]]> By: LK http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/comment-page-1/#comment-754 LK Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:29:27 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/12/dear-readers-you-are-all-platinum-members/#comment-754 Before I get back to writing a short paper on <i>Racial Identity Polling Among Black Men in Contemporary America</i> for one of my overwhelmed ESL students who has, contrary to better judgment and language abilities, opted to take a graduate level course on "Education, Politics and the Environment" at Harvard — I would like to contribute my two Roman-profiled coins: Statements, such as the one you re-quoted, by Derrida (<i>“To have a friend… is to know in a more intense way, already injured, always insistent, and more and more unforgettable, that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die.”</i>) often remind me that I'm a Slovak in a relationship with a Russian. Essentially, I am woman replete with genetics that sometimes predispose me to awkward ruminations on love that involve the inevitable expiry of my loved one's mortal soul. I guess you could call me her fur-trimmed Tolstoy. Rest assured that neither of us have tuberculosis — though Anna always tests false-positive due to the mandatory vaccination practices of the former Soviet efficiency. Um, <a href='http://tap-the-talent.blogspot.com/2008/11/zhirinovsky-endorses-obama.html' rel="nofollow">Zhirinovsky 2008.</a> What? He still has an opinion? I haven't invested the £2.75 to read your 8,000+ word discursion (not a valid word according to this WordPress dialogue box) but, having read both the LRB's and your generous excerpts, I can only postulate that Roudinesco's somber assessment of a lack of 'turbulent' engagement in politics/social movements over the last century seems to imply her ridiculously elevated baseline for current global socio-political causes. She seems to have succumbed to an exaggerated form of <i>ennui</i>. No? Before I get back to writing a short paper on Racial Identity Polling Among Black Men in Contemporary America for one of my overwhelmed ESL students who has, contrary to better judgment and language abilities, opted to take a graduate level course on “Education, Politics and the Environment” at Harvard — I would like to contribute my two Roman-profiled coins:

Statements, such as the one you re-quoted, by Derrida (“To have a friend… is to know in a more intense way, already injured, always insistent, and more and more unforgettable, that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die.”) often remind me that I’m a Slovak in a relationship with a Russian. Essentially, I am woman replete with genetics that sometimes predispose me to awkward ruminations on love that involve the inevitable expiry of my loved one’s mortal soul. I guess you could call me her fur-trimmed Tolstoy. Rest assured that neither of us have tuberculosis — though Anna always tests false-positive due to the mandatory vaccination practices of the former Soviet efficiency.

Um, Zhirinovsky 2008. What? He still has an opinion?

I haven’t invested the £2.75 to read your 8,000+ word discursion (not a valid word according to this WordPress dialogue box) but, having read both the LRB’s and your generous excerpts, I can only postulate that Roudinesco’s somber assessment of a lack of ‘turbulent’ engagement in politics/social movements over the last century seems to imply her ridiculously elevated baseline for current global socio-political causes. She seems to have succumbed to an exaggerated form of ennui. No?

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