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Too young to remember anything, but it would have been either ET at a cinema in Coney Island or Raiders of the Lost Ark in the crying section of NW Portland Cinema 21. Both several years after release. The first movie I remember seeing near release was Oliver and Company (1988, age 5)

Too young to remember anything, but it would have been either ET at a cinema in Coney Island or Raiders of the Lost Ark in the crying section of NW Portland Cinema 21. Both several years after release. The first movie I remember seeing near release was Oliver and Company (1988, age 5)

Not an investor, but I feel like the price of PC components is going to be a strong indicator of the success of AI in the future. A sharp drop in price signals either an end to a bubble, or that AI is able to make substantial practical progress on a task it is strongly incentivized for…

I’m partway through Ada Palmers Terra Ignota book 2, and I have Questions. Very enjoyable, often mind blowing. Maybe best to keep reading and see how many Questions get answered or addressed, but so far, wow. And it is absolutely worth stepping back periodically and thinking about wtf you just read.

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

..burying their bodies in the hole they’ve helped Legrand dig. This is the last “mystery” Legrand monologues about solving. Then the story ends abruptly. I think it’s a pretty justifiable interpretation. BTW I put “Jupiter” in quotes because I think it’s intended to be an ironically demeaning name

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

But I don’t think that sympathetic reading is justifiable when L is correct in the end. It might be interesting to see a modern take on this story, J faking naïveté until he can take the treasure from L and using it to fund emancipation or violent resistance.

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

Ok, sure I can see someone, in terror of falling from a tree, being screamed at from the ground by a maniac being more likely to make a mistake. 100% we’re supposed to root for J, not L in this instance, but it’s undercut later because his mistake comes not from terror, but ignorance.

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

…certainly depicted as especially cruel, manipulative, selfish, etc. My headcanon was, maybe, to put J’s superstition and submission down to a tragic result of abuse. I certainly (and if I’m being generous to Poe, intentionally) felt way more sympathy for J than L.

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

The character of “Jupiter” though, I guess I can put the clumsily rendered black dialect down to the time it was written or even, perhaps generously, the unreliable narrators own attitudes rather than Poe’s. At one point it feels like Poe is lampshading this: the reader isn’t intended to understand…

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

The best/worst so far has been The Gold-Bug. Somewhat enjoyable as a precursor to Treasure Island and mystery stories. But wow, the character of “Jupiter” (if you’ve read it, you know) is incredibly offensive! Can totally see someone throwing the book across the room and never reading Poe again.

Reading a complete Poe anthology for October. I’m not that far in, but wow, I would not recommend it. If your objective is to read enjoyable stories, stick with the hits: Cask of Amantillado, Masque of Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc.

I’m not THAT far in, but most of the stories I’ve read have been super hard to get through. It’s interesting to see Poe’s interest in 19th century science in “The Balloon-Hoax” and “Mesmeric Revelation”, and how it was influential in the development of early science fiction.