M.J. Franklin
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first heard Dec 2024
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He's not endorsing that overthinking, even as the book itself is performing that type of overthinking.
There's the complicated relationships.
They didn't, but people do die of those things.
How do you feel about death?
As it relates to this book.
That's an interesting point that Alexandra's bringing up.
I'm very scared of death.
I don't know about you guys.
How did you feel about, like, that...
what Alexandra pointed out, the proposition of death as it looms in this book.
I do.
I have... I've been talking about it online a little bit, but I have a unified theory of Ben Lerner that I would like to float by you and see what you think.
My theory about Ben Lerner is he is always trying to find, throughout his books, the vanishing point of reality, of when reality ceases to be...
because of a variety of reasons, but then also when it comes into existence, when something so deeply artificial can be real, when a fact or a piece of information supercharges what's in front of us and changes its meaning.
And for this book club, I was going back and reading some of Ben Lerner's previous books.
I had read Topeka School, and then I read this, but I hadn't read A Totra Station, and I hadn't read 1004.
And in a Tosha station, I was reading it for this podcast, he mentions the law of the excluded middle.
Do you know this at all?
I'm going to butcher it because I did not study philosophy or linguistics or logic.
But the law, as I understand it, the law of the excluded middle is the idea that for any given proposition, a proposition is either true or it is not true.
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