Next to the originator of a great sentence is the first quoter of it. Said Emerson. Stories happen only to people who know how to tell them. Said Thucydides. A novel of intellectual reference and allusion, so to speak, minus much of the novel, is money for old rope. Said David Markson. The quotation of a misquotation is still a misquotation. Said @Thucydiocy. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘literature’
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Posted in Musings, Uncategorized, tagged David Markson, literature, quotations, Stacy Schiff, Thucydides on December 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Zigmilliardeneuro Oper
Posted in Musings, tagged economics, Elfriede Jelinek, Germany, literature, money, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Schorlau on April 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“The distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers,” remarked Thomas Piketty, in a work noted for its regular references to the novels of Austen and Balzac for insights into wealth and inequality in the nineteenth century. Contrary to the claims to scientific objectivity made by mainstream economics, issues of power and money inevitably have a subjective, psychological and hence political dimension; “democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts”, and it is the imaginative artists who can depict the effects of inequality and the workings of the economy ”with a verisimilitude and evocative power that no statistical or theoretical analysis can match.” (more…)
