>Guy is depressed because he jumped ship>500 pagesHow dull must the lives of Victorians have been for them to find this thrilling
>>25422544>How dull must the lives of Victorians have been for them to find this thrillingwhy not draw the opposite conclusion? such books are signs of how full of meaning their lives must have been, how vivid their experiences, how deep and concentrated their emotions. the words vibrated with an energy we can no longer access. the problem of the death of imagination is that we can't even imagine how much we've lost.
>>25422544>dullcomfy*
>>25422551>the words vibrated with an energy we can no longer access.No it didn’t. You are both retarded
>>25422544It's a shame because I think the story at its core is great. If it had been half the length it would have been fantastic.
>>25422564it's sad but it's true. i don't mean to demoralise. we have to realise how bad we've got it before we can figure out an escape. think how widely your own personal sense of the world has varied at different times in your life, and then extrapolate that out across the centuries. the unconscious is a historical product, it's the most complex and subtle of civilisation's productions. the unconscious produced by our global infotech economy is not the same as that produced in conrad's day. it's like we have different circuitry, we're running different software. our signals are all scrambled. and i want out, dude. this situation is intolerable.
>>25422544>How dull must the lives of Victorians have been for them to find this thrillingYou call it dull but to me it looks like they felt many more things much more acutely. You're a desensitized 21st cent herbivore man
>>25422544Imagine two young men.One of them gets aggressively sexually aroused from a picture of a woman in a bikini.The other gets mildly sexually aroused only from half an hour of hard-core pornography.Which one of those two young men would you say had a stronger sex drive?
>>25422544They didn't have a dopamine fried brain due to 24/7 entertainment designed to keep them addicted. Also Victorians had telegrams, cameras, railroads, airships, vaccines, chemistry, and other modern technologies. So it's not like they were living in Ancient Rome.
anime and video games.
>>25422544This book wasn’t bad but it did drag on. I enjoyed Victory much more.
