Quote from: p280...stuplimation, as the synthesis of awe...with what refuses awe...
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Quote from: p278...stuplimity...at times deliberately risks seeming obtuse, as opposed to making claims for spiritual transcendence or ironic distance. Instead of emerging [...or...] exaggerating... boredom resides in relentless attention to the finite and small
Quote from: p272-273In the stuplimity of slapstick comedy, which frequently stages the confrontation of small subjects with the big systems that circumscribe them, one is made to fall down---often. . . with an exaggerated expression of inexpressiveness---only so as to get up again, counteracting the seriousness of one-time failure with an accumulation of comic fatigues.
Quote from: p272Inducing a series of fatigues or minor exhaustions, rather than a single, major blow to the imagination, stuplimity paradoxically forces the reader to go on in spite of its equal enticement to readers [to] give up
Quote from: 4:25. . . you'd like to have your hands on it.
So you start out building a trap to catch this thing. I don't care what kind of artist you are, painter, sculptor, speaker. Hopefully that'll happen to me today.
Quote from: 4:43Yesterday, I felt like I said all the things I'd normally say. What's really fun, when I speak, is when all of a sudden I hear myself saying things I've never said before, and understanding things that I never understood before, as I'm telling you, like I know what I'm talking about.