tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1699354202998063569..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Steve Jobs - a genius? Probably... but what kind of genius?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-25743908034392884512012-08-11T23:10:59.540+01:002012-08-11T23:10:59.540+01:00It is also interesting that the Apple logo is a ra...It is also interesting that the Apple logo is a rainbow striped apple with one bite out of its "flesh."<br /><br />It's like Steve Jobs was telling us he was an evil genius.<br /><br />The "color of life" is to come eye to eye with evil as we bite into that apple of knowledge.<br /><br />Wasn't this the first "liberated" act?Thordaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887901925655428541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-39662178521056601592012-08-11T21:45:41.544+01:002012-08-11T21:45:41.544+01:00Good old Leavis: as I may have told you, it was hi...Good old Leavis: as I may have told you, it was his lunatic praise for Lawrence that helped save me from doing a degree in English.<br /><br />My mother was very sound on Lawrence: she passed me Lady Chatterley's Lover saying "I'll bet you can't finish it". That's what I call Lit Crit.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-62571751845768958372012-08-11T14:51:37.783+01:002012-08-11T14:51:37.783+01:00@C
Yes - I will have read that when it was posted...@C<br /><br />Yes - I will have read that when it was posted - MM always had insightful things to say about Jobs.<br /><br />@d - Well I don't believe that Conrad is a candidate for second best prose writer after Shakespeare, because pretty much the only people who read him are those forced to do so by their teachers. <br /><br />But Conrad was one of the five Great Tradition novelists defined by FR Leavis and his disciples and deployed via 100s of Leavisite school and college teachers throughout the 1950s-70s - the others were Conrad, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James - and Leavis later added DH Lawrence to the list.<br /><br />It is my impression that all of these have declined in repuation a lot in the past 25 years (especially DHL - was was the single most popular highbrow novelist right up into the late 1980s) except of course for Miss Austen, who has risen and risen.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-67771663657194209412012-08-11T14:02:13.606+01:002012-08-11T14:02:13.606+01:00Jobs schmobs.
Why did the prose lists overlook Co...Jobs schmobs.<br /><br />Why did the prose lists overlook Conrad?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-16311850377212341652012-08-11T13:19:23.602+01:002012-08-11T13:19:23.602+01:00You have probably read this, but Moldbug deserves ...You have probably read this, but Moldbug deserves quoting:<br /><br />"When, in the third millennium, we meet an Able-man - to what work do we set him? To building toys. Gewgaws, gadgets, pretty beads for department-store Indians."<br /><br /><a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thos-carlyle-on-steve-jobs.html" rel="nofollow">Thos. Carlyle on Steve Jobs</a>Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02005295490663931940noreply@blogger.com