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deadken posted:
i only read george orwell, aldous huxley, harper lee, jd salinger and donna tartt. im like totally the smartest in my english class



oh and bulgakov, i totally love russian literature, if by russian literature you mean the master and margarita, and, lolita, which i pretend to have read but havent actually

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deadken posted:
hey impper! Thomas Pynchon Owns


fuck off

#483
Dont Mess With Sucess
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i shouldnt be making fun of anyone because im reading a short book of eco essays right now
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thirdplace posted:
every time i try to read something touted as "literature" with "good writing" i get bored and quit halfway through, i'm genre 4 lyfe


read my book imo. it is neither literature or good writing

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swampman posted:
i shouldnt be making fun of anyone because im reading a short book of eco essays right now


im reading max frisch. 0wned to th eb0ne

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Impper posted:

deadken posted:
hey impper! Thomas Pynchon Owns

fuck off



pynchon combines an avant-garde linguistic and narrative creativity with a sense of riotous fun lacking in the miserable interwar europeans you fetishise. pynchon owns

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deadken posted:
hey impper! Thomas Pynchon Owns

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im reading beckett.

a girl asked me what i was reading today and i said beckett and she didnt register that a word had escaped my mouth so she asked again
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deadken posted:
Impper posted:
deadken posted:
hey impper! Thomas Pynchon Owns
fuck off


pynchon combines an avant-garde linguistic and narrative creativity with a sense of riotous fun lacking in the miserable interwar europeans you fetishise. pynchon owns


ahe yes the "riotous fun" of insufferably stupid nonsense and "hilarious" jokes that are barely something awful grade

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Impper posted:

swampman posted:
i shouldnt be making fun of anyone because im reading a short book of eco essays right now

im reading max frisch. 0wned to th eb0ne

i cant find it in ebook form for my kindly my nigga, and also the amazon page has three instances of 'Kafka', two of them 'Kafkaesque'

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swampman posted:
i shouldnt be making fun of anyone because im reading a short book of eco essays right now



is it serendipities cuz i enjoyed that........ when i was 17!!!! boosh boosh BAM

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also im reading a postwar author right now so eat d1ck
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Dude something awful rules. I even paid money to them, and i NEVER do that! You could say i AM something aweful! THe internet makes you stupid. DUH!
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Crow posted:
Impper posted:
swampman posted:
i shouldnt be making fun of anyone because im reading a short book of eco essays right now
im reading max frisch. 0wned to th eb0ne
i cant find it in ebook form for my kindly my nigga, and also the amazon page has three instances of 'Kafka', two of them 'Kafkaesque'

Crows shall die but crow shall not.


ahah i imagine idiots just dont know what theyre reading so they say kafkaesque just because the guy is in jail. its better than kafka imho (in Mann's humble opinion)

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babyfinland posted:
im reading beckett.

a girl asked me what i was reading today and i said beckett and she didnt register that a word had escaped my mouth so she asked again



u readin the trilogy rite. fuckin a. Prepare To Face Your Essence

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Impper posted:

deadken posted:
Impper posted:
deadken posted:
hey impper! Thomas Pynchon Owns
fuck off


pynchon combines an avant-garde linguistic and narrative creativity with a sense of riotous fun lacking in the miserable interwar europeans you fetishise. pynchon owns

ahe yes the "riotous fun" of insufferably stupid nonsense and "hilarious" jokes that are barely something awful grade



have u read mason & dixon. the bit with the mechanical duck is ownage..... also the rats in the sewer in v..... and the suicidal psychiatrist in lot 49........ happy memories of me & pynchon chattin bout goofy shit and beating up homeless people

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crocodiles not rats iirc
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there is a portion in "I'm Not Stiller" where narrator (the man accused of being stiller) tells of stiller's ruined relationship with his wife, and because there is Doubt that he's stiller, the story is cast in many different lights, it's one of the most brilliant pieces of "literary" writing that i've ever read. but the main good part of the book is that it's light, funny, entertaining, and doesn't try too hard to be smart. great prose too. kicks the shit out of pynchon's bullshit ehehe.
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i've been thinking about the unnameable, i think a lot of it is about the act of writing and the need to create, the establishment of an authorial identity, the chilly void of the genberalised reader, but then at the same time its also about about-ness and intentionality, the impossibility of signification, the construction & disintegration of the self, this all sounds really abstract but the way its conveyed is incredibly visceral, you feel like theres some truth or void just beyond reach but as much as you reach out or as much as you draw away you can never attain or recede from it, i think im going to need to drink 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey and stare at a wall for a while chainsmoking and then maybe i will start to understand
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deadken posted:
have u read mason & dixon. the bit with the mechanical duck is ownage..... also the rats in the sewer in v..... and the suicidal psychiatrist in lot 49........ happy memories of me & pynchon chattin bout goofy shit and beating up homeless people


damn how much of this mog have you read? i can't even read 2-3 sentences in mason & dixon before wallin out like kray

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babyfinland posted:
crocodiles not rats iirc



nah i mean the bit with the priest alternately preaching to and eating the rats

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deadken posted:
i've been thinking about the unnameable, i think a lot of it is about the act of writing and the need to create, the establishment of an authorial identity, the chilly void of the genberalised reader, but then at the same time its also about about-ness and intentionality, the impossibility of signification, the construction & disintegration of the self, this all sounds really abstract but the way its conveyed is incredibly visceral, you feel like theres some truth or void just beyond reach but as much as you reach out or as much as you draw away you can never attain or recede from it, i think im going to need to drink 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey and stare at a wall for a while chainsmoking and then maybe i will start to understand



joyce was about everything so he went the other way and wrote about nothing. its very lacanian imo, void subject and all that

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deadken posted:
i've been thinking about the unnameable, i think a lot of it is about the act of writing and the need to create, the establishment of an authorial identity, the chilly void of the genberalised reader, but then at the same time its also about about-ness and intentionality, the impossibility of signification, the construction & disintegration of the self, this all sounds really abstract but the way its conveyed is incredibly visceral, you feel like theres some truth or void just beyond reach but as much as you reach out or as much as you draw away you can never attain or recede from it, i think im going to need to drink 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey and stare at a wall for a while chainsmoking and then maybe i will start to understand


Ye wont understand, but Yell Feel Better. I'm literally putting ideas that people are posting on my facebook wall (mostly crow) into my book, right now, as i type this post

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deadken posted:

babyfinland posted:
crocodiles not rats iirc

nah i mean the bit with the priest alternately preaching to and eating the rats



o ya right i forgot about that. pynchon is great but you need to have a historical sensibility. hes a historical fiction writer more than anything else

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Impper posted:

deadken posted:
have u read mason & dixon. the bit with the mechanical duck is ownage..... also the rats in the sewer in v..... and the suicidal psychiatrist in lot 49........ happy memories of me & pynchon chattin bout goofy shit and beating up homeless people

damn how much of this mog have you read? i can't even read 2-3 sentences in mason & dixon before wallin out like kray



v, gr, lot 49 &, im currently reading, mason & dixon. im almost done tho + finishing up on beckett and i need to buy some more fiction soon to break up my ongoing battle of wills with deleuze + derrida + jameson, im gettin some michaux i think what else should i fix my eyes on

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Impper posted:

deadken posted:
i've been thinking about the unnameable, i think a lot of it is about the act of writing and the need to create, the establishment of an authorial identity, the chilly void of the genberalised reader, but then at the same time its also about about-ness and intentionality, the impossibility of signification, the construction & disintegration of the self, this all sounds really abstract but the way its conveyed is incredibly visceral, you feel like theres some truth or void just beyond reach but as much as you reach out or as much as you draw away you can never attain or recede from it, i think im going to need to drink 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey and stare at a wall for a while chainsmoking and then maybe i will start to understand

Ye wont understand, but Yell Feel Better. I'm literally putting ideas that people are posting on my facebook wall (mostly crow) into my book, right now, as i type this post



yeah the point of beckett isnt so much to understand as such, its about the absurd & the ineffable & the disintegration of all meaning, its awesome

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how much houellebecq have you read? i gave my friend his lovecraft book/essay and it made him cry lol
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pynchon owns but sometimes he can be a bit..... eeehhhhhhh, like the part where mason & dixon are smoking up with george washington and martha brings them munchies
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Impper posted:
how much houellebecq have you read? i gave my friend his lovecraft book/essay and it made him cry lol



none as of yet! is his new one any good

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Impper posted:
deadken posted:
i've been thinking about the unnameable, i think a lot of it is about the act of writing and the need to create, the establishment of an authorial identity, the chilly void of the genberalised reader, but then at the same time its also about about-ness and intentionality, the impossibility of signification, the construction & disintegration of the self, this all sounds really abstract but the way its conveyed is incredibly visceral, you feel like theres some truth or void just beyond reach but as much as you reach out or as much as you draw away you can never attain or recede from it, i think im going to need to drink 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey and stare at a wall for a while chainsmoking and then maybe i will start to understand

Ye wont understand, but Yell Feel Better. I'm literally putting ideas that people are posting on my facebook wall (mostly crow) into my book, right now, as i type this post


cool, let me know how that goes, i'm curious about the life my amputated appendage will now live

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bf have u finished molloy yet cuz i really want 2 talk about it
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this threads getting a little yobby atm
#513
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deadken posted:
bf have u finished molloy yet cuz i really want 2 talk about it



how long is maran's section? ive been pretty busy so i havent had much time to read.

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Impper posted:
thirdplace posted:
every time i try to read something touted as "literature" with "good writing" i get bored and quit halfway through, i'm genre 4 lyfe

read my book imo. it is neither literature or good writing


does it take more than two sentences to describe the plot and setting? if so i'm totally in

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thirdplace posted:
Impper posted:
thirdplace posted:
every time i try to read something touted as "literature" with "good writing" i get bored and quit halfway through, i'm genre 4 lyfe

read my book imo. it is neither literature or good writing

does it take more than two sentences to describe the plot and setting? if so i'm totally in


other than the dumbshit essays it's like entirely plot + dialogue & as far as setting goes theres some ironic commentary about chicago and urban yuppie shit in general

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deadken posted:
Impper posted:
how much houellebecq have you read? i gave my friend his lovecraft book/essay and it made him cry lol


none as of yet! is his new one any good


WOw What the fUck. have to at least read the elementary particles...

as far as the new one goes, it won the prix goncourt. i have no idea if that means it's terrible or what. i havent had a chance to read it.. it's only in england for now. i could get it i suppose but i keep forgetting

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babyfinland posted:
deadken posted:
bf have u finished molloy yet cuz i really want 2 talk about it



how long is maran's section? ive been pretty busy so i havent had much time to read.

certum est quia impossibile



its like half the book but its awesome cuz you think he's going to go off and find an explanation for everything thats been going on in the first section but then ahahahahahaha

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deadken posted:

babyfinland posted:
deadken posted:
bf have u finished molloy yet cuz i really want 2 talk about it



how long is maran's section? ive been pretty busy so i havent had much time to read.

certum est quia impossibile

its like half the book but its awesome cuz you think he's going to go off and find an explanation for everything thats been going on in the first section but then ahahahahahaha



cool. i just started it. it didnt take me long to read the molloys section and ive got two train rides to make this weekend so I will attempt to finish it

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some1 repost maggotmasters tumblr
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gruntstein posted:
some1 repost maggotmasters tumblr


http://maggotmaster.tumblr.com/