Sounds like narcissism. Low self esteem with self aggrandisement. Only caring about what other people think of you. I relate so hard to this so hard and Im pretty sure Im a narcissist.
@tk423b23 күн бұрын
Good read. Also good mic.
@philippecirse487228 күн бұрын
Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🍍🌴
@rob_patrick1Ай бұрын
His early works really sounds like it's Chinese festival music
@alistarkazi2037Ай бұрын
29:50 is my new favorite character, sir anus frey
@alistarkazi2037Ай бұрын
and hes fucking dead, nevermind
@tanimal3964Ай бұрын
Great performance. I find some narrators try too hard, if that makes sense, and it feels pretentious and unlistenable.
@HaroldTheHerald2 ай бұрын
Whats with the tits? Aha
@sharimauriello21532 ай бұрын
I saw this live stage concert/production years ago. The sets were extremely minimal and dark…being made up of a few objects and the rest was laser show scenery that the actor interacted with through the use of the objects. The laser show kept transforming the locations. It was so cool and the music was awesome. Wish there was footage somewhere to watch. I still have the album on cassette tape 😊.
@myles37652 ай бұрын
thanks for reading this for us!
@TheNeuralist2 ай бұрын
Wallace was the quintessential sad man. Wish he had realized that there was so much to live for.
@WBSlashH3 ай бұрын
“He licked his lips, and tastes salt” is somehow a reassuring and bone chilling way to end that chapter. Holy hell
@christianryan_3 ай бұрын
So gooooood
@TaisiiaFlorida20243 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤
@sherifatamusa74363 ай бұрын
Feels like a 90s sci-fi soundtrack
@matthewsonnenberg3032 ай бұрын
To accompany that great score for BUCKAROO BONZAI, perhaps?
@ginamariep49483 ай бұрын
Such a bad ass chapter. Can't wait to see what Stannis does in WoW!
@joshuacortez12263 ай бұрын
Dude its incredible how Aeron didn't break after all that suffering, really respectable
@HankMardukis653 ай бұрын
28:33 tits?
@maksimnikiforovski20343 ай бұрын
This chapter is outstanding! Notice how subtle the writing reveals Sansa's political acumen. Just by looking at Mya she knows what, or rather who, made Mya scowl. Later, she walks through the courtyard and keeps remarking how everyone is saying the opposite of what they are doing. When she meets LF, she notices that he 'gave her that smile that never reached his eyes', confirming that she is well aware how insincere and manipulative he is. Finally, and most obviously, we are led to believe that she will fall for Harry and fail to manipulate him just like she did with Joffrey, until the very end when she turns the tables completely. She is Margery, Cersei, and LF combined.
@whyyellowwhy76364 ай бұрын
Perhaps my favorite DFW piece. No other story I've ever read has so perfectly grasped and articulated so many of my feelings.
@redorchidee13724 ай бұрын
This is so close to my actual experience that i'm afraid i'll end up committing suicide as well at some point. death is my greatest fear but life is torment. though if this lasts long enough
@AM-is1jh3 ай бұрын
read you must change your life by Peter Sloterdijk
@doreilly76895 ай бұрын
12:20 I'd run toward the old knight, he'd make it so quick I'd be unaware... those fkin iron born tho 🫤 where... where did you say they were again?
@laurenceschwartz86065 ай бұрын
I understand that this was originally the score of a theatre sci-fi piece? Ear candy
@yurp74445 ай бұрын
Ooouuh....🫢 Just the changed image of him Makes things hit differently. 😮💨
@yurp74445 ай бұрын
But the court/his fam had years to get used to his appearance and see his character. I hope he catches some KEY bodies. Some pivotal bodies. 🚶🏾♂️
@jamieworthy51635 ай бұрын
I’m loving this.. good recommend by a new fb friend. 🫶🏻🧐
@dirtycelinefrenchman5 ай бұрын
Focusing on the biographical aspects misses out a deeper, more richer reading. This is Wallace in full Dostoevsky mode, penetrating into his own heart of darkness, vaunting past self-disclosure to diagnosis greater ills within the society. Wallace was a covert moralist acutely conscious of his impulse to finger-wave. His hyper-self-consciousness and endless gameplay was one way he kept this impulse in check. But he read all the major social critics of the postwar gen, those who weren't afraid to mix it up and call a spade a spade (etc). They were popular in their time but are mostly lost to us to us today. This is unfortunate. They had things to say that are more relevant than ever. If only we weren't so above-it-all and knowing. Prescient is the word people like to use but, really, these are things that have been with us for a long, long time -- with technology and cultural trends simply obscuring the timeline. Progress is an illusion, a political/marketing slogan. Wallace read them all: Laing, Postman, Goodman, Norman O. Brown, Lasch et al. Christopher Lasch's 'Culture of Narcissism' and (even better) 'The Minimal Self' are especially relevant here. Working with the Freudian concept of narcissism and the pleasure principle/death drive, Lasch presents a condition that goes beyond the individual to get at the forces at work in the culture (politics and media especially) that form such subjects. We have, in short, been hardwired for this. We look inward to understand our condition, our shortcomings and dissatisfactions, but it's a trick, a clever ploy. Watch out. An endless descent ensues. Confusion mounts, overwhelms us. Come up for air. We're made to feel helpless. All the better to market things to us, keep us humping the consumer dream of endless abundance. Happiness is but a purchase away. We know this, it's nothing new. It's beyond cliche. But our cleverness and self-awareness still somehow can't save us. Wallace knew this. He knew everything. We know everything. It's the privilege of our era, this knowing (all-knowing?). Wallace, like most of us, was deeply weary of ideologies, any kind of explicit political framing, preferring to go it his own way (a slogan since the time of Wallace's birth). Yet where does he end up but the simple truths of AA and self-help. These have their limits, of course, are mere psychic crutches. Wallace knew this too -- but what else? Eventually you've got to resolve the thought, land on the perception. Plant your flag and move on. We're getting pretty far out and the air is getting thin. The funny thing is we are all aware of what's going on, have been for some time. We flippantly note, for example, how we're going shopping for no other reason than to fill the void. Or hop in our personal vehicles to ride off into freedom. We are as aware as all get-out of our condition and yet still remain oddly oblivious. It's a paradox, of sorts. An inability to see beyond horizons. I guess this is it. No other way to resolve things. Crap. Back to Walmart we go. Or an expedition up Kilimanjaro. Maybe book that trip to Europe. See the sites. What's the difference? Anything good streaming? Coke or Pepsi. It's as good a choice as any. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. The soundtrack of our lives. Am I living my best life yet? Survey says...Maybe a war will set us straight. Remember a time when men were men? It's seems becoming aware of the water in which we swim (to use Wallace's go-to image) still doesn't get us out of the fishbowl. It's gonna take something else to break out -- but what? And at what cost?
@dirtycelinefrenchman5 ай бұрын
Dr. G had some intersting observations
@dirtycelinefrenchman5 ай бұрын
He do words good
@robsop95125 ай бұрын
lol
@KatoTheKing6 ай бұрын
The show really did Euron no justice!! 100 times better in the books!!
@pylgrym6 ай бұрын
Just whips the britches off of DARK SIDE oF THE M00N. But, which came first? Phil or Floyd?
@ni3kyYT6 ай бұрын
Wait... so did he die or.....
@nono95435 күн бұрын
Yeah he offed himself
@kingreaper2126 ай бұрын
❤❤💔
@Strandysmommy6 ай бұрын
I ❤ Philip Glass. I also love everything about this whole thing, the camera is performance art itself.
@chancebaker90658 ай бұрын
This is the best speech of the whole series. And without a doubt my favorite chapter.
@sabas75498 ай бұрын
Sir Shandrick knows!!!
@derektrudelle41828 ай бұрын
Had he actually studied "A Course in Miracles" (mentioned around the 3:39 mark), he might not have taken his own life, since through its teaching, he might've recognized the destructive voice in his head for what it was - an hallucination. He might've learned, too, that another Voice was always there to guide him away from pain and misery but for the asking. I wish his brilliance was still here with us.
@dirtycelinefrenchman5 ай бұрын
I disagree with your reductive assessment but agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment
@derektrudelle41825 ай бұрын
@@dirtycelinefrenchman I understand why my assessment comes off as reductive. I'll add a point for the purpose of clarity: Salvation is reducible to a single mistake - the belief in a separate will. The hateful voice that arose from this mistake is the ego. It was this voice that directed DFW to attack his own body. This is why I say in a reductive way that "had he actually studied 'A Course in Miracles", he might not have taken his own life" because the Course is all about undoing that one mistake. Food for thought. Be well.
@sabas75498 ай бұрын
This chapter makes me feel so helpless for our heroes. That everything that Stannis and John will accomplish in the north will be undone by Euron.
@ryanbrets76958 ай бұрын
Nah. Daenerys will destroy him with her dragons. I doubt Eurons dragon horn actually works.
@DngrDan8 ай бұрын
I read these books when I was 19 and completely hated Sansa. Her father and his men were all betrayed by Littlefinger and here his daughter is galavanting around the country with him pretending to be HIS daughter. And she LIKES it! She hardly ever even mentions Ned. But as I get older, I realize that she's just a young girl. She knows nothing about those events and she's clearly trying to hide away in this knew persona she's built. Major signs of disassociation and PTSD.
@daber20009 ай бұрын
I like the note on the class on logic. In the safe capsule of school you put in effort, you get a good result, it is like what life promises to be when one is young, before you learn human existence is devoid of logic and the universe is chaotic and violent, and only entropy reigns. If Donald Hertzfeld would animate this essay, with Pittman as the narrator, this would reach more people, as it should.
@dayofayanju90219 ай бұрын
28:30 Is that supposed to be Yara/Asha Greyjoy
@relight69319 ай бұрын
I cannot finish this. First time I could, but this time the fraud part is just killing me. It's like this character, even with his self awarness cannot comprahend that there is no real self. We exist only in interactions with others and in their percieve notion of us can we know ourselfs. Yet, to care what every person you meet thinks about you, can only lead to this absurd way of living. Unsustainable. I am anhedonic on my own thank you very much, to care what every person thinks of me, would be willingly embracing being a bad joke. I wonder if he ever felt what it meant to just be. Death of ego even for a few hours might have helped him. While I don't think ill of suicide, especially in old age when body or mind starts to fail us, I cannot condone it as "solution" towards the paradox of the lack of meaning in ones life. Also, happiness is overrated and always fleeting. Inner peace and being content, present in the moment and selfless and connected to others, seems more apropriate as a goal to thrive to.
@u.kw14619 ай бұрын
Man never thought I'd feel closely related to this guy with what his saying.
@williamthompson78299 ай бұрын
If he had washed and combed his hair, he might have felt better about himself.
@valerie00009 ай бұрын
I like the raven voice that you do, lol.
@valerie00009 ай бұрын
I’ve been pronouncing it as Ah-sha, not Ay-sha, in my head the whole time.
@valerie00009 ай бұрын
Poor Theon.
@Jew-Gi-Oh_4199 ай бұрын
Dumb and Dumber's writing: Stannis burns his daughter at a stake. GRRM's Genius writing: Stannis proclaims Shireen as his successor for the iron throne as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms if he is to be killed.
@valerie000010 ай бұрын
I always enjoy Tyrion’s chapters.
@valerie000010 ай бұрын
I love how Ser Barristan raises morale and inspires his soldiers to keep fighting.
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Whoa. This algorithm really speaks to me.
Sounds like narcissism. Low self esteem with self aggrandisement. Only caring about what other people think of you. I relate so hard to this so hard and Im pretty sure Im a narcissist.
Good read. Also good mic.
Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🍍🌴
His early works really sounds like it's Chinese festival music
29:50 is my new favorite character, sir anus frey
and hes fucking dead, nevermind
Great performance. I find some narrators try too hard, if that makes sense, and it feels pretentious and unlistenable.
Whats with the tits? Aha
I saw this live stage concert/production years ago. The sets were extremely minimal and dark…being made up of a few objects and the rest was laser show scenery that the actor interacted with through the use of the objects. The laser show kept transforming the locations. It was so cool and the music was awesome. Wish there was footage somewhere to watch. I still have the album on cassette tape 😊.
thanks for reading this for us!
Wallace was the quintessential sad man. Wish he had realized that there was so much to live for.
“He licked his lips, and tastes salt” is somehow a reassuring and bone chilling way to end that chapter. Holy hell
So gooooood
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Feels like a 90s sci-fi soundtrack
To accompany that great score for BUCKAROO BONZAI, perhaps?
Such a bad ass chapter. Can't wait to see what Stannis does in WoW!
Dude its incredible how Aeron didn't break after all that suffering, really respectable
28:33 tits?
This chapter is outstanding! Notice how subtle the writing reveals Sansa's political acumen. Just by looking at Mya she knows what, or rather who, made Mya scowl. Later, she walks through the courtyard and keeps remarking how everyone is saying the opposite of what they are doing. When she meets LF, she notices that he 'gave her that smile that never reached his eyes', confirming that she is well aware how insincere and manipulative he is. Finally, and most obviously, we are led to believe that she will fall for Harry and fail to manipulate him just like she did with Joffrey, until the very end when she turns the tables completely. She is Margery, Cersei, and LF combined.
Perhaps my favorite DFW piece. No other story I've ever read has so perfectly grasped and articulated so many of my feelings.
This is so close to my actual experience that i'm afraid i'll end up committing suicide as well at some point. death is my greatest fear but life is torment. though if this lasts long enough
read you must change your life by Peter Sloterdijk
12:20 I'd run toward the old knight, he'd make it so quick I'd be unaware... those fkin iron born tho 🫤 where... where did you say they were again?
I understand that this was originally the score of a theatre sci-fi piece? Ear candy
Ooouuh....🫢 Just the changed image of him Makes things hit differently. 😮💨
But the court/his fam had years to get used to his appearance and see his character. I hope he catches some KEY bodies. Some pivotal bodies. 🚶🏾♂️
I’m loving this.. good recommend by a new fb friend. 🫶🏻🧐
Focusing on the biographical aspects misses out a deeper, more richer reading. This is Wallace in full Dostoevsky mode, penetrating into his own heart of darkness, vaunting past self-disclosure to diagnosis greater ills within the society. Wallace was a covert moralist acutely conscious of his impulse to finger-wave. His hyper-self-consciousness and endless gameplay was one way he kept this impulse in check. But he read all the major social critics of the postwar gen, those who weren't afraid to mix it up and call a spade a spade (etc). They were popular in their time but are mostly lost to us to us today. This is unfortunate. They had things to say that are more relevant than ever. If only we weren't so above-it-all and knowing. Prescient is the word people like to use but, really, these are things that have been with us for a long, long time -- with technology and cultural trends simply obscuring the timeline. Progress is an illusion, a political/marketing slogan. Wallace read them all: Laing, Postman, Goodman, Norman O. Brown, Lasch et al. Christopher Lasch's 'Culture of Narcissism' and (even better) 'The Minimal Self' are especially relevant here. Working with the Freudian concept of narcissism and the pleasure principle/death drive, Lasch presents a condition that goes beyond the individual to get at the forces at work in the culture (politics and media especially) that form such subjects. We have, in short, been hardwired for this. We look inward to understand our condition, our shortcomings and dissatisfactions, but it's a trick, a clever ploy. Watch out. An endless descent ensues. Confusion mounts, overwhelms us. Come up for air. We're made to feel helpless. All the better to market things to us, keep us humping the consumer dream of endless abundance. Happiness is but a purchase away. We know this, it's nothing new. It's beyond cliche. But our cleverness and self-awareness still somehow can't save us. Wallace knew this. He knew everything. We know everything. It's the privilege of our era, this knowing (all-knowing?). Wallace, like most of us, was deeply weary of ideologies, any kind of explicit political framing, preferring to go it his own way (a slogan since the time of Wallace's birth). Yet where does he end up but the simple truths of AA and self-help. These have their limits, of course, are mere psychic crutches. Wallace knew this too -- but what else? Eventually you've got to resolve the thought, land on the perception. Plant your flag and move on. We're getting pretty far out and the air is getting thin. The funny thing is we are all aware of what's going on, have been for some time. We flippantly note, for example, how we're going shopping for no other reason than to fill the void. Or hop in our personal vehicles to ride off into freedom. We are as aware as all get-out of our condition and yet still remain oddly oblivious. It's a paradox, of sorts. An inability to see beyond horizons. I guess this is it. No other way to resolve things. Crap. Back to Walmart we go. Or an expedition up Kilimanjaro. Maybe book that trip to Europe. See the sites. What's the difference? Anything good streaming? Coke or Pepsi. It's as good a choice as any. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. The soundtrack of our lives. Am I living my best life yet? Survey says...Maybe a war will set us straight. Remember a time when men were men? It's seems becoming aware of the water in which we swim (to use Wallace's go-to image) still doesn't get us out of the fishbowl. It's gonna take something else to break out -- but what? And at what cost?
Dr. G had some intersting observations
He do words good
lol
The show really did Euron no justice!! 100 times better in the books!!
Just whips the britches off of DARK SIDE oF THE M00N. But, which came first? Phil or Floyd?
Wait... so did he die or.....
Yeah he offed himself
❤❤💔
I ❤ Philip Glass. I also love everything about this whole thing, the camera is performance art itself.
This is the best speech of the whole series. And without a doubt my favorite chapter.
Sir Shandrick knows!!!
Had he actually studied "A Course in Miracles" (mentioned around the 3:39 mark), he might not have taken his own life, since through its teaching, he might've recognized the destructive voice in his head for what it was - an hallucination. He might've learned, too, that another Voice was always there to guide him away from pain and misery but for the asking. I wish his brilliance was still here with us.
I disagree with your reductive assessment but agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment
@@dirtycelinefrenchman I understand why my assessment comes off as reductive. I'll add a point for the purpose of clarity: Salvation is reducible to a single mistake - the belief in a separate will. The hateful voice that arose from this mistake is the ego. It was this voice that directed DFW to attack his own body. This is why I say in a reductive way that "had he actually studied 'A Course in Miracles", he might not have taken his own life" because the Course is all about undoing that one mistake. Food for thought. Be well.
This chapter makes me feel so helpless for our heroes. That everything that Stannis and John will accomplish in the north will be undone by Euron.
Nah. Daenerys will destroy him with her dragons. I doubt Eurons dragon horn actually works.
I read these books when I was 19 and completely hated Sansa. Her father and his men were all betrayed by Littlefinger and here his daughter is galavanting around the country with him pretending to be HIS daughter. And she LIKES it! She hardly ever even mentions Ned. But as I get older, I realize that she's just a young girl. She knows nothing about those events and she's clearly trying to hide away in this knew persona she's built. Major signs of disassociation and PTSD.
I like the note on the class on logic. In the safe capsule of school you put in effort, you get a good result, it is like what life promises to be when one is young, before you learn human existence is devoid of logic and the universe is chaotic and violent, and only entropy reigns. If Donald Hertzfeld would animate this essay, with Pittman as the narrator, this would reach more people, as it should.
28:30 Is that supposed to be Yara/Asha Greyjoy
I cannot finish this. First time I could, but this time the fraud part is just killing me. It's like this character, even with his self awarness cannot comprahend that there is no real self. We exist only in interactions with others and in their percieve notion of us can we know ourselfs. Yet, to care what every person you meet thinks about you, can only lead to this absurd way of living. Unsustainable. I am anhedonic on my own thank you very much, to care what every person thinks of me, would be willingly embracing being a bad joke. I wonder if he ever felt what it meant to just be. Death of ego even for a few hours might have helped him. While I don't think ill of suicide, especially in old age when body or mind starts to fail us, I cannot condone it as "solution" towards the paradox of the lack of meaning in ones life. Also, happiness is overrated and always fleeting. Inner peace and being content, present in the moment and selfless and connected to others, seems more apropriate as a goal to thrive to.
Man never thought I'd feel closely related to this guy with what his saying.
If he had washed and combed his hair, he might have felt better about himself.
I like the raven voice that you do, lol.
I’ve been pronouncing it as Ah-sha, not Ay-sha, in my head the whole time.
Poor Theon.
Dumb and Dumber's writing: Stannis burns his daughter at a stake. GRRM's Genius writing: Stannis proclaims Shireen as his successor for the iron throne as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms if he is to be killed.
I always enjoy Tyrion’s chapters.
I love how Ser Barristan raises morale and inspires his soldiers to keep fighting.