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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #16
    Re: What are you reading?

    [quote user="tweedlesinpink"]

    dontbecruel, that is indeed crisply structured - i&#39;ve always marvelled at the bard&#39;s sense of structure, diction and lyricism in his writing. every now and then i return to shakespeare and i feel something like a sense of regeneration when i&#39;ve read one of his plays, whether it&#39;s something i&#39;ve already read or something i&#39;m looking at for the first time.</p>

    </p>

    i&#39;m currently on kerouac&#39;s on the road - the choice of reading matter is almost cliched, i know, but i&#39;ve been meaning to read kerouac for a long time without getting down to it, so here i am.
    </p>

    [/quote]</p>

    Welcome, it&#39;s nice to see you here (didn&#39;t mean to be rude by deleting your post #1 [:D]). I liked On the Road. It seemed honest (a strange thing to say about a novel, I know), and unpretencious. It&#39;s no literary masterpiece, but it&#39;s great for what it is, a description of those who chose not to participate in the society they did not like. There was one incredible passage from it that hung long on my fridge door (it&#39;s been since replaced by pictures of my daughter, but c&#39;est la vie). If I find it, I&#39;ll post it here.
    </p>

    </p>
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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    • Faust
      kitsch killer
      • Sep 2006
      • 37852

      #17
      Re: What are you reading?

      [quote user=&quot;tweedlesinpink&quot;]

      i think a honest novel&#39;s not a strange thing to say at all! plenty of novels don&#39;t immediately strike one as being honest - make that plenty of modern novels.</p>

      </p>

      this is a passage that leaped out at me when i read the first bits of the book, and i think it&#39;s wonderful:</p>

      </p>

      <span lang="EN-GB">&ldquo;...I shambled after as I&#39;ve been doing all
      my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the
      mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous
      of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace
      thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
      spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and
      everybody goes &lsquo;Awww!&rsquo;&quot;</span></p>

      </p>

      <span lang="EN-GB">would you consider kerouac (and the beat generation) merely an older generation of what would today be termed popular literature?</span>

      [/quote]</p>

      No, I would say that it was the only genuine generation of people who refused to participate in the society they despised - every other group, starting with the hippies (Celestial Seasonings Tea, anyone?), and then punks, rockers, and rappers has been commercialized and sold. Capitalism hasn&#39;t caught on to making a product out of rebellion back then. I daresay these guys lived truly fulfilling lives that today has become so much harder to do. There is no more Bohemia - it is dead.
      </p>
      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #18
        Re: What are you reading?



        [quote user=&quot;dontbecruel&quot;]I am crazy about Othello. Look at this... it is one of the most rhythmical, tense bits of writing in English:

        Oth. Is he not honest?
        Iago. Honest, my Lord?
        Oth. Honest? I, Honest
        Iago. My Lord, for ought I know
        Oth. What do&#39;st thou thinke?
        Iago. Thinke, my Lord?
        Oth. Thinke, my Lord? Alas, thou ecchos&#39;t me;
        As if there were some Monster in thy thought
        Too hideous to be shewne.

        [/quote]</p>

        </p>

        I like this:</p>

        <a name="speech78"></a>CASSIO

        <a name="266"></a></p>

        <a name="266"></a>Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost

        <a name="267"></a>my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of

        <a name="268"></a>myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,

        <a name="269"></a>Iago, my reputation!
        </p>
        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #19
          Re: What are you reading?



          About to start reading A Religious Orgy in Tennessee by Mecken</p>

          and</p>

          Waiting for Godot by Beckett in anticipation of seeing it in a few weeks.
          </p>
          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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          • laika
            moderator
            • Sep 2006
            • 3787

            #20
            Re: What are you reading?



            How is the Baudelaire going, Faust? Or are you too swamped with school stuff?</p>

            I am editing (so reading) a book manuscript on constitutional revolutions in Turkey and Iran--yikes! kind of hard going. </p>

            </p>
            ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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            • Faust
              kitsch killer
              • Sep 2006
              • 37852

              #21
              Re: What are you reading?

              [quote user=&quot;laika&quot;]

              How is the Baudelaire going, Faust? Or are you too swamped with school stuff?</p>

              I am editing (so reading) a book manuscript on constitutional revolutions in Turkey and Iran--yikes! kind of hard going. </p>

              </p>

              [/quote]</p>

              Didn&#39;t get to it yet - will have to wait till winter break, unfortunately. [:(]</p>
              Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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              • dontbecruel
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2006
                • 494

                #22
                Re: What are you reading?

                It could be worse... I&#39;m editing a trash novelisation of the Twilight Zone TV series!

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                • Fuuma
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 4050

                  #23
                  Re: What are you reading?



                  -I&#39;m re-reading ranma1/2 comics, I&#39;m now at volume 37 out of 38.</p>

                  -Re-reading L&eacute;o Malet&#39;s Nestor Burma stories (first french polar)</p>

                  -Next will be either La moustache (Carr&egrave;re), Philosophy of religion (Bataille) or Au bonheur des dames (the ladies&#39; delight) (Zola). Maybe some more comics.</p>

                  </p>
                  Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
                  http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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                  • laika
                    moderator
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 3787

                    #24
                    Re: What are you reading?



                    ooooh, Bataille....I went through a major phase a few years ago. I&#39;m very fond of Visions of Excess.</p>

                    </p>
                    ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                    • laika
                      moderator
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 3787

                      #25
                      Re: What are you reading?



                      [quote user=&quot;dontbecruel&quot;]It could be worse... I&#39;m editing a trash novelisation of the Twilight Zone TV series!
                      [/quote]</p>

                      that sounds hilarious. And what led you to this endeavor?</p>
                      ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                      • dontbecruel
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 494

                        #26
                        Re: What are you reading?

                        Quite simple... I need money!

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                        • laika
                          moderator
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 3787

                          #27
                          Re: What are you reading?

                          I hear that!
                          ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                          • Fuuma
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 4050

                            #28
                            Re: What are you reading?

                            [quote user=&quot;laika&quot;]

                            ooooh, Bataille....I went through a major phase a few years ago. I&#39;m very fond of Visions of Excess.</p>

                            </p>

                            [/quote]</p>

                            He&#39;s quite an interesting thinker. Is he popular in the english speaking world?</p>
                            Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
                            http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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                            • laika
                              moderator
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 3787

                              #29
                              Re: What are you reading?



                              He is popular in certain academic circles--extremely popular with a certain faction of my department. I wouldn&#39;t say he is generally well-known in the US, though. </p>

                              I stumbled across him when i was in middle school. The first thing I read was Story of the Eye. I had no idea what I was getting into, needless to say. I far prefer his theoretical/philosophical writings to the novels--they really leave me cold. A strange kind of pornography. </p>
                              ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                              • xcoldricex
                                Senior Member
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 1347

                                #30
                                Re: What are you reading?

                                gray&#39;s anatomy for students :(

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