哈哈。。咱们给人家文人胡起哄。。人老珠黄,还是多动身子,少用脑子的实惠。 -4_fun(寻开心: 誓别三推) @美国华人论坛:美国枫下论坛 The Rolia Forum of USA

枫下沙龙 / 梦想天空 / Mr. Dumb, I'm busy at work so that I could only get into discussion with you about philosophy or literature off work. -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728534@0) +3

Speaking of comparative literature in which you are specialized, what is the philosophical reading of the literature that you indicated last week? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728551@0) +3

And what is the outcome that you tried to generate through literary comparison? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728560@0) +3

哈哈哈，我不能再扫人家兴了，虽然这和政治无关，比较文学我念书时旁听过几门课，有个一知半解而已。 -redneck(Cracker); 2017-4-7 (#10728724@0) +3

趁虚而入。难道不是政治吗? 嘿嘿。。跟文学没关系。哥呀。。这就爱弟老了鸡 -4_fun(寻开心: 誓别三推); 2017-4-7 (#10728812@0) +3

哈哈。。咱们给人家文人胡起哄。。人老珠黄,还是多动身子,少用脑子的实惠。 -4_fun(寻开心: 誓别三推); 2017-4-7 {63} (#10728831@0) +4

改换鞋了，老是一双怎么行? -redneck(Cracker); 2017-4-7 {32} (#10728857@0) +4
我有一双93年的耐克气垫鞋还好好的
From literature all the way straight down to hairy legs, a dreamy world indeed.^_^ -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728873@0) +3

I intended to read into the nature and metamorphosis of desire, -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-7 (#10728701@0) +3

哈哈哈，批评的对。 -redneck(Cracker); 2017-4-7 {10} (#10728721@0) +5
我太多嘴啦
OK, back to my second dinner. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-7 (#10728741@0) +3

I may just give up reading the Waste Land. To you, is it a piece of work generated from metamorphosis of desire? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728728@0) +3

Or is it a piece of work deriving from the ideological interpretation of Mother Nature? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728738@0) +3

To say it is ideological is almost an understament, and yet what is poetical in the Waste Land actually lifts it above the mundane boundary of ideology. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-7 (#10728829@0) +3

To me, poetic artistry is part of ideology, isn't it? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728845@0) +3

The word ideology has some very ugly connotation with propaganda or worldly politics. Therefore I have a private bylaw dictating my shunning it whenever it is possible and reasonable. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729198@0) +1

Just finished your SECOND breakfast or what? :) What's the horror of ideology? You threw me right out of the window. -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-8 (#10729206@0)

Well, some of us unfortunately must always answer to another higher rank of duty call first and foremost. As for the horror of ideology it is mostly my own eccentricity. I am allergic to anything remotely political. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729342@0)

Scholars or academicians eventually exhausted all possible and available topics, therefore they must go beyond litrrature in order to continue making a living by doing literature. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-7 (#10728710@0) +3

Give us an example: the two pieces that you compared before to substantiate and consolidate comparative literature as it is? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728750@0) +3

Poetry vs poetry? Novels vs novels? Or poetry vs novels? Any reasonable patterns? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728761@0) +3

Or structural segmentation? Quite a few questions here and there, aren't they? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728779@0) +3
The so called "pattern" is quite often secondary to your thesis. I had classmates who actually did their dissertation on comparative "philosophy", in some way. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-7 (#10728805@0) +3

So, no patterns, no principles, and no segmentation at all? It's like freestyle swimming? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728862@0) +3

There are indeed general rules like you mentioned, yet the overall tendency in the last little while is for liberal arts to be more and more liberal -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729183@0) +2

I am not trying to master the purpose or ultimate goal of comparative literature, yet I do like to have a sense of what and how comparative literature tries to convey to you and to me. Any 2 particular pieces you compared before? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-8 {42} (#10729209@0)
What did you generate from the comparison?

You stunned? Fascinated? Or amazed? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-8 (#10729213@0)
Well, -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 {311} (#10729347@0)
there are two famous villains that demand adequate comparison, namely,Ximenqing in Golden Lotus and Vicomte de Valmont in Les liaisons dangereuses. These two fascinating figures speak different languages yet they have reached the hall of fame of villains with the same ingenuity, authenticity, and genuineness.

We had a class discussing courtly love in medieval times. Our professor was in her late 30's then yet she devoted pretty much most of her life to the study of medieval literature. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-7 (#10728795@0) +3

You mean the best interpreter of medieval love is supposed to be an old and bald guy? ^_^ -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-7 (#10728854@0) +3

Unfortunately most of them truly are. That is why a good looking female professor in a class of courtly love was such a surprising treat. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729189@0) +2

What you are trying to convince me is that you are one of those professors that are old and bald? ^_^ -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-8 (#10729214@0)

I was too young to be bald when they threw me out of the window of the candidate waiting room for liberal arts professorship. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729322@0)

Speaking of courtly love, is it,from your point of view,,purely emotional or somehow erotic and physical as well? -wantbaby(：）); 2017-4-8 (#10729216@0)

If you truly go by the book, the kind of "love" in courtly love is only of face value. however, there is said to be anecdotal evidence of some lucky unorthodox bastard scoring big and high. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729339@0)

瞧你这瞎着急的 -redneck(Cracker); 2017-4-7 (#10728755@0) +7
Come on, if my memory did not betray me you probably have mastered English better than most of us. -the_dumb_one(dumb_and_dumber); 2017-4-8 (#10729193@0) +2

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