Comments on: Moby Disk 1.1.1 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: » Interactive Fiction and Grammar Secondary English Network http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-246278 » Interactive Fiction and Grammar Secondary English Network Fri, 09 May 2008 11:29:59 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-246278 [...] the relationships between technology, narrative, poetry and art.  Some of it is incredibly geeky and retro, but at times it offers insights into how technology can fundamentally shift the way we [...] [...] the relationships between technology, narrative, poetry and art.  Some of it is incredibly geeky and retro, but at times it offers insights into how technology can fundamentally shift the way we [...]

]]> By: Chris http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-231020 Chris Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:39:37 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-231020 <i>Who else counts others?</i> Melville, Joyce, Camus, Pynchon, Bulwer-Lytton, Kafka, ?, ?, Keyes, ?, Stein, ?, Nabokov, Tolstoy, ?, ?, ?, ?, Orwell, ?, Dickens. I had to look up who wrote "Flowers for Algernon", though. One or two of the others looks familiar, but I can't place them off the top of my head. Do I pass the English GRE? Who else counts others?

Melville, Joyce, Camus, Pynchon, Bulwer-Lytton, Kafka, ?, ?, Keyes, ?, Stein, ?, Nabokov, Tolstoy, ?, ?, ?, ?, Orwell, ?, Dickens.

I had to look up who wrote “Flowers for Algernon”, though. One or two of the others looks familiar, but I can’t place them off the top of my head. Do I pass the English GRE?

]]> By: William Patrick Wend http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-230909 William Patrick Wend Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:11:11 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-230909 I see Calvino too. This is a great idea; I look forward to more! I see Calvino too. This is a great idea; I look forward to more!

]]> By: Dan Whatley http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-228748 Dan Whatley Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:12:17 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-228748 Thanks, Nick, for so generously sharing and then taking away! So far, I count: Melville, Proust, Pynchon, Wm Gibson, Kafka, Faulkner, T.Geisel, Nabokov, Tolstoy, DeLillo, and Dickens. Who else counts others? Thanks, Nick, for so generously sharing and then taking away! So far, I count: Melville, Proust, Pynchon, Wm Gibson, Kafka, Faulkner, T.Geisel, Nabokov, Tolstoy, DeLillo, and Dickens. Who else counts others?

]]> By: terry http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-228675 terry Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:06:31 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-228675 how meta! how meta!

]]> By: Harry Giles http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-228596 Harry Giles Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:33:42 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-228596 *giggles* *giggles*

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-228525 nick Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:39:44 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-228525 I'm obliged to report that my project of posting <i>Moby Disk</i> has drawn to a premature close. The <a href="http://people.hofstra.edu/John_L_Bryant/Melville/" rel="nofollow">Melville Society</a> has offered me a grant to stop posting and working on this material, and I've accepted their offer. Actually, I'm not sure that "grant" is the right word for it; that suggests a carrot and I was motivated to conclude things by something that must really be characterized as more of a stick. Anyway, I hope there were some of you who enjoyed this one fragment that I was allowed to post, and that everyone had a great <a href="http://www.allarts.org/images/oops-02.gif" rel="nofollow">April 1.</a> I’m obliged to report that my project of posting Moby Disk has drawn to a premature close. The Melville Society has offered me a grant to stop posting and working on this material, and I’ve accepted their offer. Actually, I’m not sure that “grant” is the right word for it; that suggests a carrot and I was motivated to conclude things by something that must really be characterized as more of a stick. Anyway, I hope there were some of you who enjoyed this one fragment that I was allowed to post, and that everyone had a great April 1.

]]> By: scott http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-228325 scott Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:11:35 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-228325 Nick, I'm glad to see that you are finally getting around to some real literary work on this blog. I would correct the typos but I can tell that you are using them for the purposes of literary style. As for the coy references to many of the great works of the the twentieth century and others, all I can say is that I hope you are also composing a sort of schema, a skeleton key if you will, through which we eager critics might begin the process of unraveling the complex tapestry you have only just begun to lay at the feet of our humble blog. Human, technological, and yet also deeply introspective, this novel has already begun to sing a song to my soul. Bon voyage! Nick, I’m glad to see that you are finally getting around to some real literary work on this blog. I would correct the typos but I can tell that you are using them for the purposes of literary style. As for the coy references to many of the great works of the the twentieth century and others, all I can say is that I hope you are also composing a sort of schema, a skeleton key if you will, through which we eager critics might begin the process of unraveling the complex tapestry you have only just begun to lay at the feet of our humble blog. Human, technological, and yet also deeply introspective, this novel has already begun to sing a song to my soul. Bon voyage!

]]> By: Harry Giles http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/comment-page-1/#comment-228298 Harry Giles Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:07:49 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/01/moby-disk-111/#comment-228298 An opening of punning, literary play -- high (and popular) literature relocated into the sphere of cyberspace. It's an opneing which works best (and perhaps only?) in cyberspace -- which tolerates and encourages the soundbite; which allows the curious reader to quickly hyuper-link their way to the solution to the question "Now what is that opening line from?"; which reflexively recognises the self-awareness of an opening blog post which refigures in the language of cyberspace famous first words. Literature 2.0. As cyber-literary play, it's an opening and an opening only. It's merit as more than a aphorism, soundbite, once-read long-forgotten blog-post will be determined by what follows. Because it doesn't tell us anything new (the content of the refiguring is determined by its form; once we've got the joke, there's nothing more to get in only one paragraph), and because it is overarchingly funny, it threatens to be a punchline, which as an opening disastrously closes and forecloses a 550-section, 18-month blog-novel. Laughter traditionally resolves tension, but this laughter creates it: I wait tensely for what is to come. The final question is: Will it be worth it? An opening of punning, literary play — high (and popular) literature relocated into the sphere of cyberspace. It’s an opneing which works best (and perhaps only?) in cyberspace — which tolerates and encourages the soundbite; which allows the curious reader to quickly hyuper-link their way to the solution to the question “Now what is that opening line from?”; which reflexively recognises the self-awareness of an opening blog post which refigures in the language of cyberspace famous first words. Literature 2.0.

As cyber-literary play, it’s an opening and an opening only. It’s merit as more than a aphorism, soundbite, once-read long-forgotten blog-post will be determined by what follows. Because it doesn’t tell us anything new (the content of the refiguring is determined by its form; once we’ve got the joke, there’s nothing more to get in only one paragraph), and because it is overarchingly funny, it threatens to be a punchline, which as an opening disastrously closes and forecloses a 550-section, 18-month blog-novel. Laughter traditionally resolves tension, but this laughter creates it: I wait tensely for what is to come. The final question is: Will it be worth it?

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