You've used the phrase "dreaming with" several times, whereas "dreaming of" sounds more apt. It's kind of odd because in order to dream with someone you'd have to share in the same content. — Nils Loc
The frustration of a lucid dream is apparent in and round those rare moments when you take what is occurring in a dream to be reality. The only notable example of this was thinking I had a drawer full of cash, which evaporated on waking. — Nils Loc
At times, I have dreamt that I am interacting on the forum and either disappointed or relieved that the exchange was not 'real'. — Jack Cummins
You’re begging the question.
Your argument is now “if I dream of X and if X exists then X exists”. — Michael
You’re arguing that dreaming of X is proof that X exists.
If the argument fails when X is Zeus then it fails when X is Michael. — Michael
I think it's mysterious that even with knowledge of all the laws of physics, it seems impossible to decide whether plants can suffer. — SolarWind
They (some at least) have awareness and memory. That's sufficient. I suspect they have that capability. — noAxioms
So you want to be spared: — Roke
Glad you are not living there -- you were just visiting, right? — BC
I can find deteriorating neighborhoods in Minneapolis; you can probably find them in your city, too. — BC
Is the version you've read older or younger? — Dawnstorm
There's a lot I can't say, because there's a lot I don't know. See? For example, I don't know how he framed the list you gave us. — Dawnstorm
Bias is inevitable, and I don't think eliminating bias is even something one should attempt. Especially not in an article that wavers between social and personal, like this one. — Dawnstorm
And I hope you don't think I'm denigrating Don Quixote — Dawnstorm
German translation — Dawnstorm
It's like he's encouraging you to go beyond the well-known and figure out your own canon. — Dawnstorm
Yes, but isn’t that the point? If he were an American, there would be Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Bellow, Melville, Whitman; all exceptional. In fact, one could probably make a list like this composed entirely of Americans. — Tom Storm
Might "a classic" just be called "a great book"? — BC
#5. "A classic is a book which even when we read it for the first time gives the sense of rereading something we have read before."
I like that. — BC
I've never liked Hemingway. — BC
I read Don Quixote, once upon a time. — BC
What about individual poems -- can they be classics along side novels? — BC
"'I'm rereading...', never 'I'm reading...'" — Dawnstorm
I find it more bizarre to see an Italian who doesn't include Virgil and the Commedia. It's like leaving out Shakespeare and Milton in English. — Count Timothy von Icarus
The idea of a “universally agreed upon” classic novel is probably seen as a bit outdated these days. — Tom Storm
Literary value is filtered through culture, history, and personal taste. — Tom Storm
I dislike most of Dostoyevsky I have read, except for his mercifully concise The Gambler - — Tom Storm
Not really. French novels have often been considered masterpieces of world literature, and writers like Voltaire, Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Proust, and Gide usually appear on those venerable lists of the 'greatest writers' of all time. I have read most of these and would consider them very fine, although Proust does bore me somewhat. — Tom Storm
Classics are very much a collective canon; "individual classics" is an oxymoron. — SophistiCat
You mentioned Calvino's bias towards Italian authors. Each culture will have its own version of the literary canon — SophistiCat
Minding is a metacognitive activity (i.e. strange looping process), and not an entity; it is what an ecology-situated, sufficiently complex brain can do, rather than some ontologically separate (e.g. non-physical) or "emergent" woo-stuff. Also: not to be confused with consciousness. — 180 Proof
My father's ancestors were farmers. One of the features of farming in the late 19th into the 20th century is how often farmers moved -- not for better views, but because farms failed financially fairly often. Good land but bad economies. — BC
October 20th, 2015: I remember it well. — Jamal
But I think this latest one is copied from el fin del mundo- it's the exact same town. — Manuel
Had to drop the newest Murakami after reading 30% of the book, his quality has dropped quite a bit since 1Q84, this meditative side is very boring to me. — Manuel