I love being friends with Tim, because he makes me think long and hard about the things I think. If you didn't see his comment on the last post, do, because he's smarter than me. I'm serious.
Something I've been struggling with, though, is the relative importance of literary ficiton in the long run. I'm struggling with how to express this, but basically, this is my thought process: in 100 years, which books will be classics? Stephen King or Safran Foer? Grisham? Jennifer Weiner? Niffenegger? Piccoult? For that matter, which books that are classics now were "popular fiction" and which were the literary fiction of the time? I'm pretty sure that if you're classifying, things like Austen and Dickens were popular fiction. Dickens was serialized--but does that mean he's not literary fiction? Hemingway--what was he? At the time? And what about Nick Hornby? I'm very confused.
And as for my anti-populism as manifested in my fear of video games, I would like to say that I'm no stranger to playing video games. My sister and I (and I'm not ashamed to say this, though it's pretty ridiculous) got addicted to both Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon for a time. In fact, my infatuation with Animal Crossing lasted a good nine months. I don't necessarily think that it's the video games that I dislike and fear. It's the idea that certain online components of video games may inhibit normal social activity. Again, I do love my games; I play computer games as well. (And can I stress that S's video game playing far from inhibits our social life? His playing is not interfering with the normal process of our lives. So what I fear is not necessarily happening to him/us.)
And as for what I was going to talk about, I think I'm done with that. I was going to talk about my trip to my only semi-local feminist bookstore this morning, but the moment has passed. And now I don't remember what I was going to say, because it flew out of my brain.
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