Comments on: Former Students Make Good http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/former-students-make-good/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 16 May 2008 21:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/former-students-make-good/#comment-236 KF Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:09:17 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=118#comment-236 <p>Hey, I just realized that I never responded to your question.  You know, I haven’t a clue.  I thought at the time I was reading it that the sequence you’re referring to was an over homage of sorts to GR, and particularly to the Banana Breakfast scene.  Beyond that, I’m not sure. </p> <p> Coincidentally, however, the day before you posted this, I finished volume 2 (The Confusion) and began volume 3 (The Broom of the System).  I’m teaching the Big Novel class again next semester, and it’s all I can do to keep myself from making them read the whole trilogy… </p> Hey, I just realized that I never responded to your question.  You know, I haven’t a clue.  I thought at the time I was reading it that the sequence you’re referring to was an over homage of sorts to GR, and particularly to the Banana Breakfast scene.  Beyond that, I’m not sure.

Coincidentally, however, the day before you posted this, I finished volume 2 (The Confusion) and began volume 3 (The Broom of the System).  I’m teaching the Big Novel class again next semester, and it’s all I can do to keep myself from making them read the whole trilogy…

]]> By: Lori http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/former-students-make-good/#comment-235 Lori Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:58:39 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=118#comment-235 <p>Everything that Liz said goes double for me.  Thanks for giving us 24 and Alias screenings to look forward to and classes that allowed us to think critically about television.  And not just the “Rory seriously needs to shut up” sort of critical, although that’s important too. </p> <p> Postscript about another class I had with you: I just read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, and it leaves me wondering - what is it about big novels and extended musical sequences?  First Gravity’s Rainbow, now this.  Curious. </p> Everything that Liz said goes double for me.  Thanks for giving us 24 and Alias screenings to look forward to and classes that allowed us to think critically about television.  And not just the “Rory seriously needs to shut up” sort of critical, although that’s important too.

Postscript about another class I had with you: I just read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, and it leaves me wondering - what is it about big novels and extended musical sequences?  First Gravity’s Rainbow, now this.  Curious.

]]> By: liz http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/former-students-make-good/#comment-234 liz Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:29:07 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=118#comment-234 <p>Aww...thanks!  Yes, Lori and I are dedicated to making sure watching television takes its place among such legitimate hobbies as being a movie buff or a music nerd.  And also dedicated to ranting and raving about what’s on.  </p> <p> And...um...we’ll be sure to try and incorporate some of that Marxist and Postmodern business that we learned in your classes.  </p> <p> Seriously, though, you are definitely an inspiration to aspiring bloggers and studiers of television everywhere.  Thanks for blazing the trail! </p> Aww…thanks!  Yes, Lori and I are dedicated to making sure watching television takes its place among such legitimate hobbies as being a movie buff or a music nerd.  And also dedicated to ranting and raving about what’s on. 

And…um…we’ll be sure to try and incorporate some of that Marxist and Postmodern business that we learned in your classes. 

Seriously, though, you are definitely an inspiration to aspiring bloggers and studiers of television everywhere.  Thanks for blazing the trail!

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