Comments for Couturier Illustration http://couturierillustration.com Pop art for people who eat pop tarts Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Xtreme Friday Night Film Series 3 Poster by Vince http://couturierillustration.com/2011/10/08/xtreme-friday-night-film-series-3-poster/#comment-295 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:12:08 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=745#comment-295 I thank you for an awesome post. I will come back soon for more of your content.

]]> Comment on Introducing the Philip K. Dick Philosophical Podcast by Jeremy http://couturierillustration.com/2011/10/23/introducing-the-philip-k-dick-philosophical-podcast/#comment-275 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:58:38 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=756#comment-275 Sorry for the late reply, but greatly appreciate the promo and feedback!

]]> Comment on Introducing the Philip K. Dick Philosophical Podcast by Frank C. Bertrand http://couturierillustration.com/2011/10/23/introducing-the-philip-k-dick-philosophical-podcast/#comment-264 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:44:34 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=756#comment-264 Gave you a promo at Facebook PKD fan group site…As for what I’ve written since the late 1970s about Philip K. Dick, I have a “folder” titled “Encounters With Philip K. Dick” at
http://www.scribd.com

yours in kipple,
fcb

]]> Comment on Introducing the Philip K. Dick Philosophical Podcast by terenceblake http://couturierillustration.com/2011/10/23/introducing-the-philip-k-dick-philosophical-podcast/#comment-263 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:53:11 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=756#comment-263 Great logo, great idea for a podcast, great first episode! Congratulations.
The story “Beyond lies the Wub” is a great one to begin with, and your discussion managed to show its richness. I have begun reading Dick’s “EXEGESIS” , which just came out, so I think your idea of a philosophical podcast is quite timely. I somehow missed out on PKD’s early fiction, so I read this story to be able to follow your podcast episode, and I’m glad I did. You did a good job of making explicit a lot of what is implicit in the story, so I just want to prolong your reflections a little. I think the Odysseus reference could be filled out in several ways. Odysseus does not rely on brute force like Achilles, but on intelligence, cunning, ruse. This is another case where we can identify the Wub with Odysseus, as against the Achilles-like Captain. Futher, Odysseus had the idea of the Trojan Horse, and now the Captain’s body is a Trojan Horse concealing the Wub and carrying it back to Earth.
The eating of the Wub feels like a Eucharist scene, given that he talked about the parable of your Saviour, so “this is my body”; especially as it was accompanied by wine.
Also the little introduction:
” The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.”
seems to be a reference to the Epicurean philosophers, who held pleasure as the highest good. They were compared to swine by their critiques, mere gluttons. According to John Stuart Mill:
“When thus attacked, the Epicureans have always answered, that it is not they, but their accusers, who represent human nature in a degrading light; since the accusation supposes human beings to be capable of no pleasures except those of which swine are capable.”
This seems to be the case in the story, where Captain Franco is the true swine (all he can think of is eating the wub, he has no care for its intelligence and culture, and so lives like a fool), despite his human body. The Wub is the philosopher despite his swine body (although he does take pleasure in eating too).
As for the name “wub”, I think it may be a “nonce word”, coined to be used for the occasion, for the nonce. It resembles Lewis Carroll’s “wabe” in Jabberwocky, which Humpty Dumpty glosses as the grass around a sundial because it “goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it”. As there is “beyond” in the title, this suggests that the wub, which originated “way behind us” in time, lies “way beyond” us in evolution and mental capacity.
Please excuse the long-winded comment, but I was quite inspired by your discussion. I am looking forward to the next episode. thanks and keep up the good work.

]]> Comment on The Xtreme Friday Night Film Series 4 Poster by Jeremy http://couturierillustration.com/2011/11/12/the-xtreme-friday-night-film-series-poster-4/#comment-258 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:38:45 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=761#comment-258 Last Circus is a expertly crafted batshit crazy movie. If “IT” didn’t make you afraid of clowns this movie will. Where’s my copy of Daydream anyway with ultra rare foil variant cover?

]]> Comment on The Xtreme Friday Night Film Series 4 Poster by StephenStephen http://couturierillustration.com/2011/11/12/the-xtreme-friday-night-film-series-poster-4/#comment-257 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:31:09 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=761#comment-257 Nice, dude. Nice. That “Last Circus” one is super creepy.

]]> Comment on Tank Riot…The Original Series. by Stephen http://couturierillustration.com/2011/08/25/703/#comment-209 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:27:36 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=703#comment-209 Freakin’ love it!

]]> Comment on Walk on the Wild Side… by Jeremy http://couturierillustration.com/2011/07/10/walk-on-the-wild-side/#comment-182 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:51:31 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=661#comment-182 Thanks bro, if the series does well I will be doing more of the same. Awesome movie theater.

]]> Comment on Walk on the Wild Side… by Jeffrey Couturier http://couturierillustration.com/2011/07/10/walk-on-the-wild-side/#comment-181 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:42:14 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=661#comment-181 That’s some pretty sweet work there Jeremy.

]]> Comment on “Mr. Mean Mug”….Nick Diaz by d0ll http://couturierillustration.com/2011/04/22/mean-mug/#comment-111 Tue, 03 May 2011 17:02:27 +0000 http://couturierillustration.com/?p=586#comment-111 great stuff! love the pic :-)

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