Billy Gee
@billygeezus.bsky.social
belief in the unknown. www.billygeewriter.com
The preface kicks off the trail of receipts of deceits that must be followed to comprehend the labyrinth of facts and misfacts that inform the central spiral through the mysteries of life. The manuscripts referenced are each invented parts of a bibliography that tell a greater truth. Please enjoy!
March 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The preface kicks off the trail of receipts of deceits that must be followed to comprehend the labyrinth of facts and misfacts that inform the central spiral through the mysteries of life. The manuscripts referenced are each invented parts of a bibliography that tell a greater truth. Please enjoy!
If you haven’t read this book of short stories, I apologize, but then you may not have experienced fiction. This books makes fiction of fictions. Ficciones is a world-building journey where the rules of the world are part of a separate fiction. What ground does the reader stand on! What is truth?
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If you haven’t read this book of short stories, I apologize, but then you may not have experienced fiction. This books makes fiction of fictions. Ficciones is a world-building journey where the rules of the world are part of a separate fiction. What ground does the reader stand on! What is truth?
Kelly Link
"I like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there’s something about nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we are in a space between daylight and dreaming." ........
"I like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there’s something about nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we are in a space between daylight and dreaming." ........
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Kelly Link
"I like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there’s something about nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we are in a space between daylight and dreaming." ........
"I like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there’s something about nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we are in a space between daylight and dreaming." ........
"Dream logic produces emotion but not sense. Are there ways in which you would reshape this explanation for me? What have I missed?"
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Dream logic produces emotion but not sense. Are there ways in which you would reshape this explanation for me? What have I missed?"
"And with dream logic, you say, “This happened, and then this happened, and it doesn’t make any sense.” In other words, daytime logic produces a logical, causal kind of sense, while nighttime logic produces a more mysterious, emotional kind of sense."
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"And with dream logic, you say, “This happened, and then this happened, and it doesn’t make any sense.” In other words, daytime logic produces a logical, causal kind of sense, while nighttime logic produces a more mysterious, emotional kind of sense."
"A narrative possesses daytime logic when at the end you can say, “This happened, and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can explain why.” With nighttime logic, you say, “This happened, and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can’t explain why.”
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"A narrative possesses daytime logic when at the end you can say, “This happened, and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can explain why.” With nighttime logic, you say, “This happened, and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can’t explain why.”
"It’s an idea that always generates much curiosity; my students view it as a source not only of creative clarity but of creative permission. To begin with, here’s my best attempt at articulating these different storytelling approaches:"
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"It’s an idea that always generates much curiosity; my students view it as a source not only of creative clarity but of creative permission. To begin with, here’s my best attempt at articulating these different storytelling approaches:"
Kevin Brockmeier
"In every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you make between nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic."
"In every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you make between nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic."
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Kevin Brockmeier
"In every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you make between nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic."
"In every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you make between nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic."
Are we really lost in our collective overthinking rather than challenging ourselves with the sight we carry within us? Or is it more nuanced?
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Are we really lost in our collective overthinking rather than challenging ourselves with the sight we carry within us? Or is it more nuanced?
Is nighttime logic, on the rise again after going dormant for years? What is causing this? Is it the way the day to day reality of life no longer adds up? Have we ignored the intuitive sense we carry within us too long?
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Is nighttime logic, on the rise again after going dormant for years? What is causing this? Is it the way the day to day reality of life no longer adds up? Have we ignored the intuitive sense we carry within us too long?
I've always preferred nighttime logic. It's the logic of Grimm's Fairytales. The logic of nightmares and dreams. The logic of Lispector, Salinger, July, Marquez, Aira, Bolano, on and on.
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've always preferred nighttime logic. It's the logic of Grimm's Fairytales. The logic of nightmares and dreams. The logic of Lispector, Salinger, July, Marquez, Aira, Bolano, on and on.
I guess that's my interpretation... his meditation on the subjective nature of what makes ideas and life both heavy and simultaneously light feels very relevant in 2024. Between AI, American Fascism, and ongoing weather patterns, what is our avenue back to lightness?
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
I guess that's my interpretation... his meditation on the subjective nature of what makes ideas and life both heavy and simultaneously light feels very relevant in 2024. Between AI, American Fascism, and ongoing weather patterns, what is our avenue back to lightness?
Kundera's characters find a way out of the circle, the 'weight' of the kitsch, by seeing the value in leaving behind portions of what they always believed made them free.
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Kundera's characters find a way out of the circle, the 'weight' of the kitsch, by seeing the value in leaving behind portions of what they always believed made them free.
Like us today, Kundera traces characters struggling to never gain traction to their philosophies but struggling to admit the truths of the opposition's side.
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Like us today, Kundera traces characters struggling to never gain traction to their philosophies but struggling to admit the truths of the opposition's side.
Wilson uses Kundera's definition to accuse Trump of polishing away the shit, but in doing so he falls deep into kitsch, by Kundera's own definition. Kundera -- "have I not said that what makes a leftist a leftist is the kitsch of the Grand March?", p 261.
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Wilson uses Kundera's definition to accuse Trump of polishing away the shit, but in doing so he falls deep into kitsch, by Kundera's own definition. Kundera -- "have I not said that what makes a leftist a leftist is the kitsch of the Grand March?", p 261.
I wanted to see if others have picked up on the recent relevancy. Quick search and there's a 2020 Newsweek article connecting Kundera's kitsch definition to MAGA rhetoric. www.newsweek.com/trumps-dange...
Trump's Dangerous MAGA Kitsch
The president's "patriotic education" commission does not highlight American exceptionalism but rather his fondness for the tactics of authoritarian regimes.
www.newsweek.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
I wanted to see if others have picked up on the recent relevancy. Quick search and there's a 2020 Newsweek article connecting Kundera's kitsch definition to MAGA rhetoric. www.newsweek.com/trumps-dange...
Here's the London Review after the book released in 1984... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
John Bayley · Kundera and Kitsch
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Here's the London Review after the book released in 1984... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
When we get to the point that AI feels compelled to write poetry, we will know the androids have truly arrived. I can’t think of a better litmus test!
November 22, 2024 at 6:27 PM
When we get to the point that AI feels compelled to write poetry, we will know the androids have truly arrived. I can’t think of a better litmus test!
I would suppose it depends one which AI and which human :)
November 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I would suppose it depends one which AI and which human :)
Either way it goes, the result is smarter AI.
November 22, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Either way it goes, the result is smarter AI.