Saul Bellow

[craner]

One simply cannot cancel Eros

💘

 

[luka]

Don’t know the context but just reading his response to that

Op-Ed: Papuans and Zulus

archive.nytimes.com

sounds like a massive cunt

 

[craner]

sounds like a massive cunt

There's no way you read that, not a chance

 

[luka]

i read the opening paragraph and it made me feel ill so i had to stop

 

[luka]

slimy

 

[sus]

@shiels read Augie March it's amazing

 

[luka]

its not amazing but its readable. one of those books you breeze through and remember nothing about as soon as youve finished it.

 

[sus]

I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.

 

[sus]

its not amazing but its readable. one of those books you breeze through and remember nothing about as soon as youve finished it.

You're dodging me on versions thread where I destroyed you

 

[version]

I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.

The most insane thing I've ever read.

 

[luka]

thats hilarious. that self conscious american voice. like in underworld.

 

[luka]

You're dodging me on versions thread where I destroyed you

you were talking weird gibberish i couldnt understand a word of it.

 

[sus]

Magical epoch-defining prose

 

[version]

I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.

The kind of thing a man says before he walks out of a motel into a hail of police bullets.

 

[luka]

its like trying to argue with chat gpt

 

[sus]

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. From the beginning it was never anything but chaos: it was a fluid which enveloped me, which I breathed in through the gills

 

[version]

its like trying to argue with chat gpt

The 'G' stands for 'Gus'.

 

[craner]

I'm with you @sus

 

[luka]

i dont remember it being as brilliantly hilariously bad as that. maybe i havent read that one. i should read it.

 

[luka]

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. From the beginning it was never anything but chaos: it was a fluid which enveloped me, which I breathed in through the gills.

wait i just looked this up its not bellow, its henry miller whos famous for being terrible. disappointing.