What the frick did I just read?
Why ell is he referencing all those physical and mathematical theories? Are they real?
What the hell was McCarthy thinking?
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What the frick did I just read? Why ell is he referencing all those physical and mathematical theories? Are they real?
I dont think I'm going to read these for awhile, maybe never. what the frick does McCarthy know about math.
I have no idea, the book seemed strange to me, as if it were hiding something with all those theories. I believe the book is linked to McCarthy's tenure at the Santa Fe Institute
yeah I just think the Sante Fe stuff is kind of gay. Like the old man that audits a college class but doesn't really do any of the work. I imagine him jus t sitting around thinking shallowly about theories he doesn't understand at all, and he probably hasn't even taken a calculus class.
The theories themselves aren't so important unless you want to get into his far reaching themes. They are better interpreted as Alicia's peculiar way of thinking.
How much math have you studied to make such claims? You sound like a midwit trying to put down a book you couldn't understand.
Oh wait, you haven't even read them yet. Quintessential midwit behaviour.
not that anon, but I had shitload of math at the university AND haven't read the book AND don't know what the santa fe institute is AND still think that mcsharty is gay and bad at math anyway
>verification not required
Not much, I have a mech eng degree at least.
yeah, I don't know if I want to yet. The interview with that one bugman really soured me on mccarthy.
In his defense, McCarthy was clearly annoyed with Krauss.
I don't think I believe you, anon. McCarthy was one of the best guys we got in the past century, and he happened to take science seriously for what it was (none of the postmodern crap is in here btw). It's worth giving a shot.
McCarthy was a VERY post-modern writer.
He does engage with postmodern philosophy but he wasn't ever a postmodern writer.
>that one bugman
It's upsetting they were friends but, then again, he married that broad to stuck a gun in her vegana and assaulted her lover.
McCarthy was a midwit imo
Rich coming from you.
Those interviews he did at the Santa Fey institute, which can be found on Youtube, were kind of devastating to me. He comes across as such a genuinely unique and serious thinker in the books, yet the interviews are basically 1+ hours of "So-and-so was so clever. So-and-so was also really clever. Maybe not as clever as so-and-so, but still really clever", etc etc. Was he like half senile when these interviews were recorded?
He was but I am convinced he was just kind of a pseud. His prose really carried him.
Writers should never talk about ideas or philosophers. They should certainly never talk about science or mathematics or stuff like that. They always come off as pseudo. They should stick to talking about writing and writers.
>They should stick to talking about writing and writers.
This is why autofiction is boring asf unless the writer is a crackhead.
Wait until you see his interview with Oprah.
>Why ell is he referencing all those physical and mathematical theories? Are they real?
Yes.
>What the hell was McCarthy thinking?
That his readers would be able to.
he spent the last 30 years of his life learning about epin maths and whatnot and he wanted to drop a bunch of names to look smart in his last book before he died. the ending was pretty emotional though no homo
Similarly to how McCarthy namedrops scientists, Houellebecq is constantly name dropping philosophers and authors without actually saying anything about them.
It is real, and that's why I loved it, I never liked a novel so much I felt it spoke directly to my soul. And McCarthy does know what he is talking, he read more science in his life than literature.
Who is impressed by this except people who know nothing about math or science
>Who is impressed by this except people who know nothing about math or science
did you read the book?