1. 1  dsquared  November 16, 2009, 8:33 am 

   I think it left him nearly speechless.

2. 2  sw  November 16, 2009, 4:03 pm 

   Maybe I’m way too Monday-morninged and befuddled and stuff, but I don’t know whether this exploding-head-response is supposed to be critical of or delighted by your review? Isn’t it typical for heads to explode with rage and frustration, but couldn’t it also be the opposite? But this ambiguity registered for me with the ambiguity of your use of “anti-existentially heroic” Bartleby: is he a hero who is anti-existential, or an anti-hero in existential anti-hero mode?

   To call

   How Mr Kamer came to write this nanopost even though he was in hospital with an exploded brain is a fascinating question for medical science

   Surely most blog comments are written in this compromised state from hospital beds? I know that most of my contributions come when most of my brain matter has been splattered across the ceiling.

3. 3  Steven  November 16, 2009, 4:15 pm 

   That is tragically obvious?

   I’m not sure I perceive the ambiguity you mention! (The one in my review, not the one you rightly demonstrate in brain-exploding.) Wouldn’t your hypothetical “anti-hero in existential anti-hero mode” be existentially anti-heroic?

4. 4  sw  November 16, 2009, 5:12 pm 

   I don’t know about my hypothetical heroes, but I was just a bit stumped by “anti-existentially heroic”, perhaps because too much cortical tissue is caked onto the walls?

5. 5  Steven  November 16, 2009, 5:29 pm 

   My walls are covered in grey goo and I can tell you it’s pretty hard to parse anything right now.

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