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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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Read through Charles Burns' Black Hole for about the fourth time now. An absolute must-read of all recent sequential art* in my opinion.
* graphic novel**
**comic book
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Almost at the end of the "Cocksucker Blues" segment of Underworld...it's interesting to watch a writer like DeLillo unravel his insights through his idiosyncratic style, best described by what one review on the front labeled "cerebral pyrotechnics"
That said, for this reason the book is also tough to read on a consistent basis for long stretches in a single sitting. I think with the time I've been on and off this book I already managed to go through the whole of 2666 a few months ago. Still a pretty fantastic and intriguing sprawl of a novel though.
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Originally posted by mamaboy View Postbecket on proust....or proust on becket .... something like thatFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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I think goth ninja description now has to include a russian book pocking out of julius bag.
As for me, I am trying to reread Derrida's "Dissemination".
Oh yes my brain is fried...Originally posted by interest1I'm pulling you off my friends list if you don't put down the vodka.
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Apparently I'm not in a Maldoror mood, I gave it up and am now reading L'Art Romantique by Baudelaire. It's a collection of literary criticism articles, and it's really great. So far, my favourites are the one about Poe and the one about Flaubert, but evry single page is gold
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Looking for some advice:
I've been thinking about reading more deeply about existentialism and nihilism. Of course the usual suspects Nietzche, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsky come up. The Metamorphosis would come first because I've read excerpts and am itching to read the whole thing. Then Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Notes from Undergound would probably follow.
The alternative is La Divina Commedia in the original Italian. I haven't practised Italian in some time, and certainly this would be a much more ambitious endeavour than delving into existentialsim and nihlism, but it would definitely help my suffering Italian.
As I get only 3 weeks of summer vacation this year, tackling both is not feasible. Which one should I attempt?An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler
Originally posted by BBSCCPI order 1 in every size, please, for every occasion
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Originally posted by Fade to Black View PostAlmost at the end of the "Cocksucker Blues" segment of Underworld...it's interesting to watch a writer like DeLillo unravel his insights through his idiosyncratic style, best described by what one review on the front labeled "cerebral pyrotechnics"
That said, for this reason the book is also tough to read on a consistent basis for long stretches in a single sitting. I think with the time I've been on and off this book I already managed to go through the whole of 2666 a few months ago. Still a pretty fantastic and intriguing sprawl of a novel though.
On the stretch of the last 100 pages, particular the epilogue, found myself going into a kind of trance where I became unaware of anything else outside the book. Happened to me with my favorites like Immortality and 2666. Whoever reviewer said the novel can do a good fucking job (paraphrase) of getting the human condition was spot on.
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Originally posted by SombreResplendence View PostLooking for some advice:
I've been thinking about reading more deeply about existentialism and nihilism. Of course the usual suspects Nietzche, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsky come up. The Metamorphosis would come first because I've read excerpts and am itching to read the whole thing. Then Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Notes from Undergound would probably follow.
The alternative is La Divina Commedia in the original Italian. I haven't practised Italian in some time, and certainly this would be a much more ambitious endeavour than delving into existentialsim and nihlism, but it would definitely help my suffering Italian.
As I get only 3 weeks of summer vacation this year, tackling both is not feasible. Which one should I attempt?Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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