unfiltered sake

Okay, so, in the 21st century, the only way we can relate to natural phenomena is by refracting our experiences through the prism of internet-generated memes. Of course the first instinct of Twitterers was to refer to the double rainbow guy meme. What else is new?”

…in the postscript to his great In the Name of the Rose, Eco writes that “the postmodern attitude” can be thought of as a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her ‘I love you madly’, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say ‘As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.’ At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly that it is no longer possible to speak innocently, he will nevertheless have said what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence. If the woman goes along with this, she will have received a declaration of love all the same. Neither of the two speakers will feel innocent, both will have accepted the challenge of the past, of the already said, which cannot be eliminated; both will consciously and with pleasure play the game of irony… But both will have succeeded, once again, in speaking of love.