Picking up where I left off last, proving to myself and to the world I am able to finish what I start, would’ve been the better choice I’m sure, but I’m all too eager to leave all that metaphysical introspection behind for the time being. So I’m just going to take myself out of the spotlight and act as if nothing ever happened.
At the same time, though, I’ve recently come across an amazing discovery which has encouraged me to implement a new year’s resolution I was to lazy to take seriously. It turns out peer-to-peer file sharing networks can be used to download texts. I know that this wouldn’t come across as a surprise to the average Joe but seeing that I am relatively new to downloading, I had never put two and two together. I don’t want to address the issue of piracy; this will be dealt with in depth in later posts, as it is one of my pet vices. I just want to say that unlike audio-visual content which I eagerly pirate, I like books; not only their content, I mean the paper, binding ink and everything else and I’d rather buy them than download the text. But n China books are difficult to come across and the ones you find are overpriced. I have friends who would probably disagree with the previous statement, but the point is that since I’ve come to China my book consumption has plunged. Then a few days ago, a random search on e-mule revealed that there is a wealth of books to be illegitimately downloaded in the shortest time. Within a few minutes i had half a dozen texts streaming in, most of which have been successfully downloaded. I now have no more excuses and can resolutely avow that over the next year I will read one book a week. This may seem like a miserable amount but I am an incredibly slow reader and considering that last year all I read no more than 8 as far as I can remember. Actually I’ll make it 3 books a month but I’ll throw in a review of at least 2 of the three on this blog just for old times’ sake.
I know I’ve declared my devotion to un-canonized creativity, but life is full of contradiction, so I’ve chosen a book that could not be any more canonical and to top it off, the reason I chose it was because of its status. The book in question is Ulysses by James Joyce. I just felt that I could never actually become an authority post-modernism if I wasn’t aware of what it was up against and replacing.
But enough babbling, the week has begun and time is ticking - I’ve got a rendezvous with modernism.
At the same time, though, I’ve recently come across an amazing discovery which has encouraged me to implement a new year’s resolution I was to lazy to take seriously. It turns out peer-to-peer file sharing networks can be used to download texts. I know that this wouldn’t come across as a surprise to the average Joe but seeing that I am relatively new to downloading, I had never put two and two together. I don’t want to address the issue of piracy; this will be dealt with in depth in later posts, as it is one of my pet vices. I just want to say that unlike audio-visual content which I eagerly pirate, I like books; not only their content, I mean the paper, binding ink and everything else and I’d rather buy them than download the text. But n China books are difficult to come across and the ones you find are overpriced. I have friends who would probably disagree with the previous statement, but the point is that since I’ve come to China my book consumption has plunged. Then a few days ago, a random search on e-mule revealed that there is a wealth of books to be illegitimately downloaded in the shortest time. Within a few minutes i had half a dozen texts streaming in, most of which have been successfully downloaded. I now have no more excuses and can resolutely avow that over the next year I will read one book a week. This may seem like a miserable amount but I am an incredibly slow reader and considering that last year all I read no more than 8 as far as I can remember. Actually I’ll make it 3 books a month but I’ll throw in a review of at least 2 of the three on this blog just for old times’ sake.
I know I’ve declared my devotion to un-canonized creativity, but life is full of contradiction, so I’ve chosen a book that could not be any more canonical and to top it off, the reason I chose it was because of its status. The book in question is Ulysses by James Joyce. I just felt that I could never actually become an authority post-modernism if I wasn’t aware of what it was up against and replacing.
But enough babbling, the week has begun and time is ticking - I’ve got a rendezvous with modernism.
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