http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/go-back-to-your-room-and-mope-emo-boy/ Reading, Writing, Riding Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:19:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/go-back-to-your-room-and-mope-emo-boy/#comment-1406 bloglily Mon, 19 May 2008 18:37:16 +0000 http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/?p=178#comment-1406 What a great observation you make about the mistake of conflating a persona with a person -- the line about sharing an address is genius! I read this review with great interest -- it's thorough, smart and helpful. Many thanks! What a great observation you make about the mistake of conflating a persona with a person — the line about sharing an address is genius! I read this review with great interest — it’s thorough, smart and helpful. Many thanks!

]]> http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/go-back-to-your-room-and-mope-emo-boy/#comment-1403 Against Against Happiness « Of Books and Bicycles Sat, 17 May 2008 00:54:08 +0000 http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/?p=178#comment-1403 [...] You can read Hobgoblin’s take on the book here. [...] [...] You can read Hobgoblin’s take on the book here. [...]

]]> http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/go-back-to-your-room-and-mope-emo-boy/#comment-1402 litlove Fri, 16 May 2008 17:28:04 +0000 http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/?p=178#comment-1402 Marvellous review. I think it cannot be justified to compare twenty-first century Selfish Capitalism with the seventeenth century Puritans!!! Um, slight historical and cultural leap. And I agree that the bit you quote is all about sounding dramatic rather than meaning anything. Marvellous review. I think it cannot be justified to compare twenty-first century Selfish Capitalism with the seventeenth century Puritans!!! Um, slight historical and cultural leap. And I agree that the bit you quote is all about sounding dramatic rather than meaning anything.

]]> http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/go-back-to-your-room-and-mope-emo-boy/#comment-1401 marlyat2 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:17 +0000 http://hobgoblin.wordpress.com/?p=178#comment-1401 The Bradford remark seems especially cruel--I imagine what it must be like to know that your little boy is alive (or perhaps already dead) but on the other side of the sea, that your wife Dorothea May has just tumbled into the water and drowned (accidentally or not) with the ship at mooring, and that now you must make your unwilling legs go ashore and find out what is behind those cold rocks and trees. What else was left but the need to love both God and those huddling with you against the brunt of wilderness? The Bradford remark seems especially cruel–I imagine what it must be like to know that your little boy is alive (or perhaps already dead) but on the other side of the sea, that your wife Dorothea May has just tumbled into the water and drowned (accidentally or not) with the ship at mooring, and that now you must make your unwilling legs go ashore and find out what is behind those cold rocks and trees. What else was left but the need to love both God and those huddling with you against the brunt of wilderness?

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