tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post5159662193998564791..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: VN on commonsenseDavid Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-45303668888337824412011-11-06T13:25:41.481-08:002011-11-06T13:25:41.481-08:00In some cases I'd agree with you.In some cases I'd agree with you.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-63955539898839782222011-11-06T10:59:41.902-08:002011-11-06T10:59:41.902-08:00Your 'fear' locution presumes way too much...Your 'fear' locution presumes way too much.....<br /><br />As did Kael's original coinage.<br /><br />Sometimes people disagree with one. And it's not always because they don't have one's courage. <br /><br />In fact, it's never because they don't have one's courage.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-26392481898558869422011-11-06T10:28:49.676-08:002011-11-06T10:28:49.676-08:00Key "Fear of Music" quote:
Vladimir, by...Key "Fear of Music" quote:<br /><br />Vladimir, by contrast, was almost pathologically insensitive to music, which he once described as “an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds.”David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-44160928481082443652011-11-06T07:55:50.119-08:002011-11-06T07:55:50.119-08:00I will say that the phrase beginning with 'gen...I will say that the phrase beginning with 'gentle genius' tastes more than a little of the vulgarity that in most contexts Nabokov abhorred. <br /><br />He had a gay brother who was killed by the Nazis and I think we can forgive him the lapse of sternness.<br /><br />More here:<br /><br />http://www.salon.com/2000/05/17/nabokov_5/Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-26713220494808464472011-11-05T15:55:19.673-07:002011-11-05T15:55:19.673-07:00Seems to me that ideology -- the opposite of commo...Seems to me that ideology -- the opposite of commonsense in the political world -- has been responsible for much more "crushing" than commonsense. At least since the Great War.<br /><br />At any rate my prejudices are a pretty boring basis for an argument, since I have no interest in defending them.<br /><br />Nabokov is right that commonsense is a bad basis on which to judge art, but I never brought it forward as an aesthetic principle. Quite the opposite.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.com