I have to read that Sebald novel. Thanks for the reminder and a beautiful quote.
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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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The hipster in the mirror
The attempt to analyze the hipster provokes such universal anxiety because it calls everyone’s bluff. And hipsters aren’t the only ones unnerved. Many of us try to justify our privileges by pretending that our superb tastes and intellect prove we deserve them, reflecting our inner superiority. Those below us economically, the reasoning goes, don’t appreciate what we do; similarly, they couldn’t fill our jobs, handle our wealth or survive our difficulties. Of course this is a terrible lie. And Bourdieu devoted his life to exposing it. Those who read him in effect become responsible to him — forced to admit a failure to examine our own lives, down to the seeming trivialities of clothes and distinction that, as Bourdieu revealed, also structure our world.
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Has anybody read "The book that nobody read" (yes, pun)? It was recommended to me at my "Modern Philosophy" lecture and the concept sounds interesting but I'm wondering if the content itself is too.
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mostly classics at the moment
jean genet- the thief's journal
kafka- the trial (which already i like less then nabokov's similar invitation to a beheading, still neat tho)
giovanni papini- the failure
donald norman- the design of everyday things
claudian- the rape of prosperpine (thanks à rebours!)
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Originally posted by corsair sanglot
Originally posted by corsair sanglotklaus kinski, all i need is love
i am going to love this book.
I have to paint. I must express myself. Not like actors and pensioners or politicians do. It's mania. Obsession. An urgency, just like a pregnant woman having to give birth. I sketch day and night. I use coal, because coal lives, glows, burns the most. I draw on any scrap of paper I can find, on cardboard lids, on walls. I hang my own shirt on the wall. I can't sleep anymore, I waltz sleeplessly for a couple hours or run through the English Garden all night long. In the gray of morning, around three-thirty, I'm already sketching trees, their bodies, their arteries, their foreheads touching the sky, their souls, their cries, the sky, the clouds, the grass, bushes, plants, flowers, sunflowers. But also people's bodies, faces, eyes, hands. Eyes and hands again and again, they are the most expressive. The most erotic. I can sense all of creation growing in me, growing through me, through my heart, my veins, my sex organs feeling like I must explode. I work eighteen hours a day and in feverish haste, as if I had the fear I would die of impatience and excitement to live. I know that everything about life is erotic, everything that lives. I sculpt as well. Then I smash and tear everything up and burn it all.ain't no beauty queens in this locality
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I recently very much enjoyed Wolf Hall. It's the first historical novel I ever read - needed a vacation book - and found the prose engaging and offbeat. Going to read the sequel, Bring up the Bodies next. The fact that Mantel got the Booker Prize for each of them speaks volumes.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."
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Originally posted by trentk View Post
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