You should just read more of the context of her remarks, you haven't shown Rand's standard for what does count as a proper esthetic description. Your analysis is a bit meagre.
That's a good point; I should have given an example of a descriptive passage she does admire and why to contrast. There are several in The Art of Fiction that I'm quoting from, so it would have been easy to include that. I'll do something like that the next video I make on this topic. Thanks for the feedback!
Great video. I am getting into beckett's work. Read Murphy and it impressed me in parts, not in the whole. But a lot of great ideas and one liners. But as a whole, lacked a bit.
I also had difficulty getting into Beckett. What really got me was the audiobook of Molloy read by Sean Barrett and Dermont Crowley on audible. They really inject the humor and lugubrious vitality of Beckett’s prose. Also reading the plays aloud with a friend helps.
As far as addressing insincerity goes I think that just comes with the experience of a human perception that is constantly shifting (as was pointed out). These thoughts aren’t always spoken to others, but rather express a mind alternating thoughts. The writing feels like a lived parsing out and identifying different feelings and thought processes. Fun talk as per usual, keep ‘em coming.
