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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Do you ever enjoy reading things you don’t understand
like Joyce or whatever - like this insanity is spewing out but you’re only catching a small fraction of it but like who cares?
Sometimes I’m reading something and I’m like wtf I’m so ****ing lost!!!!But then when I’m finished I read about what I just read and it turns out I understood more than I thought.
You seem like the type that would really want to fully understand whatever you read. Sometimes I’m just reading lazily and then I get lost or miss something important, obviously that’s a bad reading habit but I also think you can go too far the other way. As in being overly meticulous about understanding.
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I appreciate the response! There are indeed times when I enjoy swimming into the deep waters of the unknown.
Finnegans Wake is one of my all-time favorite challenges. I had a difficult time with Roger Scruton's treatise on the aesthetics of music, and Alex Ross'
The Rest Is Noise was similarly challenging, each simply because I lack a fundamental education in the history of classical music. I've tried various informational resources but none of them have really grabbed me as of yet.
I'm hopeful that this latest read will resonate with me, and if it does perhaps I'll give the mathematical logic of
GEB another shot.