War of Some Against None: Thoughtful Battle Still Rages Downstream
Jeff VanderMeer • July 9th, 2009 @ 8:45 pm • Uncategorized
Gawd, I cannae even fookin keep up with it all, and I’m the gatekeeper here, but Bryan Russell, Nick Mamatas, and Hal Duncan continue to type thousands of words deep into the night on the subject of mimosas, fantasy, “literary”, realism, non-realism, dogs, cats, pigeons, marshmellows. It beggars the mind it does. J.M. McDermott’s even dropped out. And where are the women, huh? Except for Terry Weyna, it’s all a bunch of guys. C’mon, get in there and slug it out. Or tell ‘em it’s stupid or something. I want to get to 200 comments before I die.
Go visit. Go tell them they are loved and have not been forgotten in the dungeon of the 130+ comments on that thar post.
July 9, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I wonder if marshmellows in fiction are a sign of mimesis or not…
July 9, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Oh, that’s nice. Classic. A classic strategy! You sit high on your throne whilst THE FOOLS hammer themselves into senselessness and wordlessness! Waiting, WATCHING without mercy as their verbal ammunition dwindles, until the last battle cry of “MIMESIS!!!” is hurled (unheeded!) toward a godless (or worse, readerless) sky, and then Lord Vordmont (whoops) VanderMeer cackles with victory: the competition, GONE! Apposing intellect, LAID WASTE! The planet, HIS! Nice…
Seriously, though—once this is all said and done, someone should have the wherewithal to edit and condense it. Might make a fascinating piece. You know… for the literary types.
July 10, 2009 at 6:51 am
oooooh….lotsa words in THAT one…….
peace and love…..
July 10, 2009 at 9:15 am
mimesis
July 10, 2009 at 9:21 am
mauetic?
July 10, 2009 at 9:25 am
Mimesis.
July 10, 2009 at 9:27 am
I’ve changed it to “mimosas” just to be contrary.
July 10, 2009 at 9:34 am
Ole!
July 10, 2009 at 9:35 am
d…d…diegesis?
July 10, 2009 at 9:39 am
Diegesis.
July 10, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Diagnesis: Mimaieurder
July 10, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Indigestion. Bane of gourmands.
July 10, 2009 at 12:47 pm
hegemoneneutic
July 10, 2009 at 12:59 pm
A Noumalethic Analysis Of Rhetontic Discourses In The Literature Of The Pata-Fantastic.
July 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Night of the Weltanschoggoths.
July 10, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Indiegesis, bane of Weltangoths and visi-noumaleths. i want 400 comments here by monday.
July 10, 2009 at 3:08 pm
all mimetic were the borogoves
July 10, 2009 at 4:14 pm
???
July 10, 2009 at 4:14 pm
!!!
July 10, 2009 at 5:08 pm
No. No! Mimesis.
July 10, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Mimesis is for the bourgeois.
July 11, 2009 at 11:24 am
Good point; conversely, however, bourmesis is the characteristic vice of the mimeoisie.
July 11, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I keep wondering who killed that giant in the picture…