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Thank you for connecting 2 sayings of Murakami Haruki :) 1.痛みは避けがたいが、苦しみはオプショナル (https://archive.ph/Ca9rE https://archive.ph/Ca9rE) Now, I don’t know how rep
by gradschoolfail 2y ago
Thank you for connecting 2 sayings of Murakami Haruki :)
1.痛みは避けがたいが、苦しみはオプショナル
(https://archive.ph/Ca9rE https://archive.ph/Ca9rE)
Now, I don’t know how representative this book is of Murakami’s novelistic style, but I wonder: Is this low-maintenance, attention-deficit prose part of Murakami’s attraction, especially among the young? Do people enjoy reading him for the same reason they persist in listening to music as blandly familiar as Clapton’s? If Martin Amis is engaged in a “war against cliché” a phrase in danger of becoming a cliché itself then Murakami, on the evidence of this book, is a serial appeaser. How much does his thigh hurt? “Like crazy.” How do we know the weather is nice? Because as he tells us (twice) there’s “not a cloud in the sky.”
self-styled zero-percenter and book reviewer in the above
2.^_^？
(Norwegian Wood)
(Roughly, “growth is pain, nongrowth is unfortunate”)
- sdrothrock 2y agoLiterally: it's difficult to avoid pain, but suffering is optional
- pokler 2y ago“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.” - Franz Kafka
- 082349872349872 2y ago> as blandly familiar as Clapton’s If it hadn't been for Clapton, I probably never would've heard of Laylā bint Mahdī bin Saʿd bin Muzahim bin ʿAds bin Rabīʿah bin Jaʿdah bin Ka'b bin Rabīʿah bin Hawāzin bin Mansūr bin ʿAkramah bin Khaṣfah bin Qays ʿAylān bin Muḍar bin Nizār bin Maʿad bin ʿAdnan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_and_Majnun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_and_Majnun Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ8magpNo10&t=93s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ8magpNo10&t=93s
- gradschoolfail 2y agoBeautiful song… I start to see where the … uh … tradition of responding to rejection with physical selfdestruction in that part of the world comes from… As for Clapton, something tells me that wouldnt make a good snowclone :)
- 082349872349872 2y agoNote that Yaghmaei exercised the Kolmogorov Option and, unlike Ramesh, stayed in the IRI after the revolution. For Clapton snowclones, I enjoyed a comment on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jV7IkHdqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jV7IkHdqk : > Eryczek wrote this when he was secretly in love with Patrycja; at that time Patrycja was the girlfriend of the famous Jurek Harrison! (if you have time, while we're here there's a great yin/yang thing going on between https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImOYx9j0kIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImOYx9j0kIA , a soft Dio interpretation, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3pfnldlD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3pfnldlD0 , a hard Andersson, Fältskog, Lyngstad, and Ulvaeus interpretation)
- gradschoolfail 2y agoWhenceforth came the margin on which K,Y thrived :)
- 082349872349872 2y agohmm... AK and margin lead me to Vereshchagin and Vitanyi, Kolmogorov’s Structure Functions and Model Selection (ca. 2002) — might this be something you have opinions on, or should I ask Hutter instead? https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0204037 https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0204037 (the description in the abstract of the structure function sounds suspiciously like a galois connection)
- gradschoolfail 2y agoYou may not agree that facts are better than opinions, but here is one: Aaronson-Carroll’s paper on sophistication, downstream of your link, is now 10 years’ in the making.. If you manage to access Hutter, let me know if I already know your public key ;)