Saturday, July 15, 2006
(12:25 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Juxtaposition Studies
Nothing spices up dinner-party conversations like unexpected juxtapositions:"I found that I wasn't able to understand Augustine fully until I started reading the Confessions alongside Bataille."
"Anti-Oedipus remained a closed book to me until I happened upon Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy. The connections are so obvious that one begins to wonder if they aren't purposeful -- on both sides."
"Of course, it goes without saying that Gravity's Rainbow is ultimately little more than an extended commentary on Irenaeus's Against All Heresies."
I'm looking for juxtapositions here that are so radically implausible that the very act of stating them forcefully paradoxically makes them seem plausible.
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