August 18, 2005

• Forgot to add: link provided courtesy of the intelligent and fine-ass Mrs. Tool.
• I've read plenty of Sartre in my time, but no Harry Potter. Rather than have to do that, I'm just going to assume he's right. Sounds right, from my limited exposure to the movies, anyway. (Always meant to do a paper doing a Kierkegaardian analysis of Trainspotting's Renton, but never got around to it once I left grad school. The existentialist theme is strong, what with the whole 'Choose life, choose a career [...]I didn't choose life, I chose something else' theme, and in the book, Renton is arrested for stealing books Kierkegaard, which I took to be anything but coincidentally symbolic.)
• Oh! If only the sorting beret had put little Jean-Paul into Hufflepuff instead.
• This Sartrean analysis does not appear to indicate that Harry and Draco are totally hot for each other. This troubles me. And negates me.
• Mauvaise foi.
• Fausse conscience! /Adorno
• The Freudian view ( it's all a big game of " wands " and chasing " snitches " around ) is funnier. The Golden Snitch, The Golden Snitch ! It's all about Anna Kuriniko-Quidditch !
• My book was published in England many years before Rowling began writing about Harry Potter. Rowling was known to be reading widely in speculative fiction during the era after the publication of my book. I can get on the stand and cry, too, Ms. Rowling, and talk about feeling "personally violated." The difference between us is that I actually make enough money from Ender's Game to be content, without having to try to punish other people whose creativity might have been inspired by something I wrote. Orson Scott Card doesn't like Rowling's current lawsuit, no sir indeed.
• Ouch... My impression is that Rowling has been obliged to take the stand by her publishers. Still, it's a crappy lawsuit.