Game: This or That

[Pike Bishop]

Rembrandt by default.

Hume or Kant?

[North Star]

Rembrandt over Leonardo for me too

Hume.

Einstein or Newton?

[Pike Bishop]

Hume all the way.

Einstein...although Newton made a larger break from his predecessors.

Wallace Stevens or William Carlos Williams?

[Lykren]

Wallace Stevens, by a big margin; he's an all-time favorite. Williams is quite good though.

Johnny Cash's late work or early work?

[North Star]

E: Late Cash

Einstein...although Newton made a larger break from his predecessors.

That might be debatable - all of natural science - and society - was totally altered by both men's work.

Wallace Stevens or William Carlos Williams?

Stevens

Mahon or Muldoon?

[Pike Bishop]

E: Late Cash


That might be debatable - all of natural science - and society - was totally altered by both men's work.

Of course it's debatable; there's no fully quantifying or qualifying scientific influence...and I never said science wasn't also altered by Einstein's work. However, Einstein was far more dependent on Newton's calculus--and even his flawed optics--than Newton was on the insufficient mathematics of his predecessors.

Muldoon. I've never read either, but I've heard much more about him...and a good call on Stevens.

Marlon Brando or James Dean?

[North Star]

Of course it's debatable; there's no fully quantifying or qualifying scientific influence...and I never said science wasn't also altered by Einstein's work. However, Einstein was far more dependent on Newton's calculus--and even his flawed optics--than Newton was on the insufficient mathematics of his predecessors.

Fair enough.

Marlon Brando or James Dean?

Brando.

Dickinson or Melville?

[Pompey Bum]

Melville

Joseph Conrad or Ford Madox Ford.

[Lykren]

Melville

Pshawwwww. Well, okay. Melville's appeal is mostly a mystery to me; care to elucidate your feelings for us benighted?

Ford. Neither are particular favorites, but The Good Soldier is just wicked. Conrad kinda clunks along, stylistically, in my opinion.

Diego Rivera or Paul Gauguin?

[Pompey Bum]

Whaling's a Massachusetts thing.

Gauguin by kazillions.

Sheridan le Fanu or Bram Stoker?

[Calidore]

I like Stoker, but Le Fanu wins this one easily.

Ghosts or zombies?

[Pompey Bum]

Ghosts are scarier but zombies are more fun. Ghosts seem evil, probably because they seem smarter. Zombies are just dumb and messy. So zombies.

Slow lumbering zombies or fast turbo-zombies?

[bounty]

oh my, if I have to personally be in the zombie mine field, I want to go with the slow lumbering kind. i am not interested in fair competition there! but if I am just watching them on tv, id be okay with their turbo cousins.

the northeast in the dead of winter or the southeast in the height of summer?

[Calidore]

Northeast. I do cold much better than heat.

Rage or sorrow?

[Lykren]

I get sad all the time and rarely angry. Maybe a change would be nice!

Improvising or planning, with regard to art you make?