Astral Codex Ten

Henry James

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Henry James

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Henry James is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 18, 2021 and August 05, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Henry James is one of the perennial candidates for the greatest American novelist”; “try Henry James … if you want something that’s slightly wordy”; “The book has testimony from Henry James”. It most often appears alongside Charles Darwin, Darwin, Freud.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: November 18, 2021
  • Last seen: August 05, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
November 18, 2021 · Original source
Any short list of the great families (or at least the great American families) should include the James's: Henry James is one of the perennial candidates for the greatest American novelist, and his brother William James is one of the perennial candidates for the greatest American philosopher. Their sister Alice James got a posthumous reputation as a diarist. (There were two other brothers who never became famous. Their father, Henry James Sr., had some reputation as a theologian, although not in the Henry (Jr)/William James league.
Highlights From The Comments On "Sadly, Porn"
April 20, 2022 · Original source
Having read your review and the two you linked to, in the end I find that I don't really trust any of the three of you to tell me what this book is about. The self-styled Contrarian starts off by sneering that Teach's old blog was popular with "pseudo-intellectuals" (which we may take as an implicit claim that the Contrarian is a real intellectual, or at least able to tell the difference, which I am not sure I believe) and reviews the book after reading only about 20% of it; he also tells us that Teach's style is "slightly wordy in the same way the Washington monument can be described as slightly phallic," which is a fairly lame attempt at wit and, based on your quotes, seems to me rather exaggerated. Teach does seem to enjoy the sound of his own voice, but try Henry James or A.E. Waite if you want something that's "slightly wordy in the same way the Washington monument can be described as slightly phallic."
Your Book Review: Exhaustion
August 05, 2022 · Original source
As Anna Schaffner explains it in Exhaustion: A History, you will find yourself in good company. The book has testimony from Charles Darwin, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann, amongst others, giving accounts of their chronic pathological exhaustion.