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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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So far, so good. Funny and sad. The description of the decadence of the American culture is hilarious. All the girl teens shop at JuicyPussy and AssLuxury, and talk like Jogu if he was a porn addict.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Fade to Black View Postgave up on Lolita after 60 or so pages. I liked Pale Fire, but feel I can only stomach one of Nabokov's, and that's it for me.
I have a bad habit of beginning new books before I finish others but I managed to finish Lolita off in one go
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I am reading heat transfer....a heart break + teeth break subject...
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All About H. Hatter, by G.V. Desani.
This is the Twentieth Century! This is the Medical Man's Century. No sentiment, no dog-cat or Romeo-Juliet imaginative stuff, but realistic brutal true-to-life pictures! What dam' use is there in reading what the Stratford-on-Avon feller wrote so long ago, and is himself dead and gone? Besides, hell, they say Bacon did it! I tell you, the Bacon-Shakespeare pictures won't tally with Life today! I know Life. I have experience...
In all my experience, I have not met with anything quite like it. — T. S. Eliot
I didn’t read many books while writing Augie. One I did read and love was All About H. Hatterr….So, what about All About? I hate to be siding with T.S. Eliot…but what can you do? — Saul Bellow, The New York Timesain't no beauty queens in this locality
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Originally posted by Faust View PostSo far, so good. Funny and sad. The description of the decadence of the American culture is hilarious. All the girl teens shop at JuicyPussy and AssLuxury, and talk like Jogu if he was a porn addict.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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About to finish J.G. Ballard's High Rise.
He really knows how to create his own surreal realities which so utterly consume your mind it's hard to switch back to your own life.
Great read. Unless maybe if you live in a high rise. On the lower floors.Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.
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Just wondering if anybody happened to read "Matthew Barney & Joseph Beuys: All in the Present Must Be Transformed". I'm debating on picking it up from amazon. Good, bad, interesting, indifferent?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
I just started reading "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art""Men are the dreams of shadows." - Pindar
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Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Most tribes, Arkady went on, spoke the language of their immediate neighbour, so the difficulties of communication across a frontier did not exist. The mystery was how a man of Tribe A, living up one end of a Songline, could hear a few bars sung by Tribe Q and, without knowing a word of Q's language, would know exactly what land was being sung.
'Christ' I said. 'Are you telling me that Old Alan here would know the songs for a country a thousand miles away?'
'Most likely.'
'Without ever having been there?'
'Supposing we found, somewhere near Port Augusta, a songman who knew the Lizard song? Suppose we got him to sing his verses into a tape-recorder and then played the tape to Alan in Kaititj country? The chances were he'd recognize the melody at once--just as we would the 'Moonlight' Sonata--but the meaning of the worlds would escape him. All the same, he'd listen very attentively to the melodic structure. He'd perhaps even ask us to replay a few bars. Then, suddenly, he'd find himself in sync and be able to sing his own worlds over the nonsense.'
Regardless of the words, it seems the melodic contour of the song describes the nature of the land over which the song passes. So, if the Lizard Man were dragging his heels across the saltpans of Lake Eyre, you could expect a succession of long flats, like Chopin's 'Funeral March'. If he were skipping up and down the MacDonnell escarpments, you'd have a series of arpeggios and glissandos, like Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies'.
Certain phrases, certain combinations of musical notes, are thought to describe the action of the Ancestor's feet. Once phrase would say, 'Salt-pan'; another 'Creek-bed', 'Spinifex', 'Sandhill', 'Mulga-scrub', 'Rock-face' and so forth. An expert songman, by listening to their order of succession, would count how many times his hero crossed a river, or scaled a ridge--and be able to calculate where, and how far along a songline he was.
'He'd be able,' said Arkady, 'to hear a few bars and say, 'This is Middle Bore' or 'That is Oodnaddat'--where the Ancestor did X or Y or Z.'
'So a musical phrase,' I said, 'is a map reference?'
'Music,' said Arkady, 'is a memory bank for finding ones' way about the world.'ain't no beauty queens in this locality
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Originally posted by mrbeuys View PostAbout to finish J.G. Ballard's High Rise.
He really knows how to create his own surreal realities which so utterly consume your mind it's hard to switch back to your own life.
Great read. Unless maybe if you live in a high rise. On the lower floors.
i love the end where they jam the elevators and start raiding each others floors
i also recommend the other books in this series crash and concrete island as well as the unlimited dream company which may be his most eloquent workLOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?
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I just finished re-reading Pattern Recognition. Zero History came out last month, and after finishing it I decided to re-read the whole trilogy from beginning to end. Gibson crafts his worlds with so much detail that it's easy to find even more substance in something you've already read.
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