Re: FW: 10 Ultra-Weird Science Fiction Novels that Became Required Reading

Helge- do you mean that weird is a concept that is held across a culture?
I'd respectfully disagree and suggest that weird is very much a personal
construct, which is what I meant by that garbage/treasure dichotomy. What I
think is weird is not necessarily what, for instance, one of my brothers
would think is weird. And at least one of my brothers thinks all kinds of
weird stuff, but to him it is not weird.

charley

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Helge Moulding <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Charley Seavey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> Perhaps we need to have a discussion of what constitutes "weird." One
>> person's garbage, another person's treasure, and all that.
>>
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> Weird is really a cultural construct, not so much personal, at least
> that's how I see it. Weird also doesn't seem to be a linear scale, more
> like a landscape with valleys of the ordinary, and peaks of weird. Culture
> and maybe some personal sensibility draws fairly fuzzy watermark through
> that landscape.
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> Helge
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Charley
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