Lately, I've been reading a lot of literature lately, from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, a story about Oedpia Maas, whose ex-boyfriend has died and has now become sole executor of his estate, while along the way uncovers two mail distributions, Thurn and Taxis, an former mail distributor in 16th century Germany and Trystero, a fictional secret mail service company, to Consider the Lobster, a collection of essays that ranged from attending the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, considered to be the pornographic Oscars to an essay about his experience on John McCain's 2000 presidential run for President of the United States and the state of disappointment in how political campaigns work, whether we like it or not.
Even before I started reading the book by getting a copy from the San Francisco Main Library, I found an interest in Pynchon's works when I was wondering about what the philosophical novel was by Googling the term philosophical novel. I then chose one of the top search results by clicking the link that I have also snapped a photo with the help of capturing a screenshot of my desktop, then opened up Paint.NET, a freeware version of Illustrator.
Even before I started reading the book by getting a copy from the San Francisco Main Library, I found an interest in Pynchon's works when I was wondering about what the philosophical novel was by Googling the term philosophical novel. I then chose one of the top search results by clicking the link that I have also snapped a photo with the help of capturing a screenshot of my desktop, then opened up Paint.NET, a freeware version of Illustrator.
As I clicked the NYTimes.com article from thereon, I happened to stumble upon David Foster Wallace after watching the movie Tuesdays With Morrie on Youtube, which is in 11 parts. After getting myself acquainted with the movie, it was based on a bestselling nonfiction book. I checked out its wikipedia page. I got a bit curious when I saw Philosophical fiction as one of the Genre(s) of the book, mostly because when I thought of philosophy at the time, I was thinking about how we deal with problems and finding rational solutions to solve these problems that erupt our lives and the world that shapes us.
In short, one link leads to another and I happen to have a huge stack of books on my desk, some of which I have read and most I should be getting to:
From top to bottom:
-The Crying of Lot 49 (done)
-South Wind Changing (done)
-This is All I Choose to Tell (done)
-Yellow Journal (Asian American Studies department)
Examples of Literature turned into hypermedia/text
-Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"
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