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Neutral Milk Hotel is...scholarly?

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Inlander:
For starters, no album - nor anything else for that matter - should ever be referred to as "a compelling document that seems to bypass cognition".

I'm afraid it looks like the guy who wrote that paper is in the early stages of that horrible disease known as Academic Writing Syndrome.

michaelicious:

--- Quote from: Inlander on 03 Feb 2009, 17:11 ---"a compelling document that seems to bypass cognition".
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What a wank.

Cernunnos:
Okay yeah. Definitely wank.

De_El:
Oh alright. I misunderstood. My bad.

Edit: This sounds really glib and annoying but it's not supposed to be. I apologize.

evilCarl:

--- Quote from: Inlander on 03 Feb 2009, 17:11 ---For starters, no album - nor anything else for that matter - should ever be referred to as "a compelling document that seems to bypass cognition".

I'm afraid it looks like the guy who wrote that paper is in the early stages of that horrible disease known as Academic Writing Syndrome.

--- End quote ---

I don't know why writing for academia is automatically a bad thing. Of course, there are many pitfalls that just cause a self sustaining system of thought that has no real relevance to anything (see post-modernism), but that doesn't mean every article is invalid. This article is a perfect example of scholarly papers down right. All Heath is doing is making connections between the album and The Diary of Anne Frank to help understand it better and, hopefully, increase the enjoyment in listening. Nobody is saying this is the end all be all of interpretations of the album.

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