Followers of Whedon

POSTED BY: Farwall
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:55
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FARWALL

Monday, May 10, 2004 3:47 PM

Having just watched Joss Whedon's commentary on objects in space, I popped along to amazon(.co.uk) to look up John Paul Satre's nausea that Joss mentioned. Rather fantastically, I thought, top of the "customers who bought this item also bought" list is The Myth of Syphius, the other book he mentioned in the commentary.
I'm just waiting for the commentary where Joss mentioned how he once threw himself off a cliff and see how many of us follow him then .

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I have no faith but it's all that I want
to be loved and believe
in my soul.

SERGEANTX

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:11 AM

Those two books are considered fundamental fare for existentialism, so it's not altogether shocking that came up. Out of curiousity, did you buy either one?

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

FARWALL

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:57 AM

Er, no I didn't. I was quite tempted to buy Nausea, I do like a little bit of philosophical light reading every now and again (I've read a lot of Paul Davies), but I don't have the cash at the moment.

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I have no faith but it's all that I want
to be loved and believe
in my soul.

EMBERS

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Farwall:
Having just watched Joss Whedon's commentary on objects in space, I popped along to amazon(.co.uk) to look up John Paul Satre's nausea that Joss mentioned. Rather fantastically, I thought, top of the "customers who bought this item also bought" list is The Myth of Syphius, the other book he mentioned in the commentary.
I'm just waiting for the commentary where Joss mentioned how he once threw himself off a cliff and see how many of us follow him then .

I've been thinking about picking these up too...
I studied philosophy at college, but I hadn't been impressed by existentialism, but I am lemming enough to want to understand Whedon's POV.

I'm hoping to meet him at a comic book convention in Chicago in August, maybe I'll ask about the 'throwing himself off a cliff' thing...