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This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister
by arthurofbabylon 9y ago
This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body.
Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
- stanislavb 9y agoYou are right, yet, I believe there's a lot of wisdom and value in the comments here. Quite often I tend to read the commends before the articles/posts themselves.
- w8w00rd 9y agoreminds me of this: http://danluu.com/hn-comments/ http://danluu.com/hn-comments/
- jxub 9y agoI think, in a meta sense, that this comment feels also really gratifying to read, there goes my upvote.
- robin_reala 9y agoOut of interest (and having only read Siddhartha and The Glass-Bead Game), what would you say was his best novel?
- tempodox 9y agoWhich reminds me of the Devil's Dictionary's definition of admiration: Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
- finnthehuman 9y agoSee also "oscar bait" >Oscar bait films are theatrical, a word which here means “keeps reminding you that you’re [in] the audience.” So don’t be fooled when the panegyrics pour out over a Spielberg flick about a dog that sniffed out its owner’s cancer and then flew to D.C. to campaign for healthcare reform. The actors are side characters, background dancers. The hero is the camera. It’s the one with the character growth, guilt and redemption, it’s the one for whom the score sings. Which means the hero is…