Comments on: The Red Badge of Experiential Courage http://www.edrants.com/the-red-badge-of-experiential-courage/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: callie http://www.edrants.com/the-red-badge-of-experiential-courage/comment-page-1/#comment-6467 callie Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:12:30 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=2714#comment-6467 i only noticed today, after many, many visits, that you have the vollmann club listed to the right and down. my god. i've been needing such a resource for months now. a group of people that will make me make it happen. force me to track down that insanely expensive volume that i keep shying away from and read it once and for all. it seems, ed, you were created by design for my specific needs. excellent. this post reminds me of the dfw mention about vollmann and his desire to "experience" his fiction before writing it...immersing himself in danger (or perhaps pseudo danger?) to get to the next level. and finally, thanks for posting a bit of my post. consider me humbled-smitten-humbled by DFW no longer...but by a certain blogger named ed. i only noticed today, after many, many visits, that you have the vollmann club listed to the right and down. my god. i’ve been needing such a resource for months now. a group of people that will make me make it happen. force me to track down that insanely expensive volume that i keep shying away from and read it once and for all. it seems, ed, you were created by design for my specific needs. excellent.

this post reminds me of the dfw mention about vollmann and his desire to “experience” his fiction before writing it…immersing himself in danger (or perhaps pseudo danger?) to get to the next level.

and finally, thanks for posting a bit of my post. consider me humbled-smitten-humbled by DFW no longer…but by a certain blogger named ed.

]]> By: dcnahm http://www.edrants.com/the-red-badge-of-experiential-courage/comment-page-1/#comment-6465 dcnahm Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:52:10 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=2714#comment-6465 A difference is that, while I am really enjoying reading Europe Central now, I hated Red Badge of Courge in HS. Though I did love his poetry: --- In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter -- bitter," he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart." --- So strange! It didn't seem good to me at the time, but I liked it. Maybe I should try him again. A difference is that, while I am really enjoying reading Europe Central now, I hated Red Badge of Courge in HS. Though I did love his poetry:

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In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial,

who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter — bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”

—

So strange! It didn’t seem good to me at the time, but I liked it. Maybe I should try him again.

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