A Brooklyn Culture Mafia
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shakahislop
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in after hours the point is that the dude is some normie cultural mafia from uptown who bumps into a girl in a diner, who gives him her number and invites him to come and see her downtown in soho that night. the whole thing is following him as he talks to various weird women (all of which want to sleep with him after chatting for about two minutes) and a couple of men. you're very much taken along with the normie protagonist exploring this downtown world.
frantic that i was on about the other day is similar in that the normie doctor american man ends up having to hang out with sexy french bohemian girls in their flats in paris.
as you say sus its hard split myths from reality. but the mythmaking is definitely there in these 70s to 90s US films. it feels very beautiful. whereas staying up all night taking coke at clubs sounds great and fun but doesn't sound beautiful at all.
frantic that i was on about the other day is similar in that the normie doctor american man ends up having to hang out with sexy french bohemian girls in their flats in paris.
as you say sus its hard split myths from reality. but the mythmaking is definitely there in these 70s to 90s US films. it feels very beautiful. whereas staying up all night taking coke at clubs sounds great and fun but doesn't sound beautiful at all.
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Verso had someone blog about Dimes Square being the New York avant-garde recently. I tried reading it, but faded out when it looked like they were going to give the nth overview of Moldbug.
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The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction
Image: Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Pandemonium), 2020 Unfortunately, I have to report that downtown New York does indeed have a cohesive avant-garde. Here is an insular community, committed to the repulsion of the status quo, that has produced at least one new literary mode...
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shakahislop
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Djuana Barnes (at least the only one I've read, nightwood), is basically a part of this lineage. that book is about paris apparently, but she's an american writer from nyc and it's the earliest example of this theme i can think of
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After hours exists in the US, more of a drug driven plot not to say you can’t straight edge, just look at Shelter and stacks of blissful spots if you’ve the stamina
The few witnessed missed the absolute anarchy British people, particularly, are capable of bringing with powders and potions, not to say y’all can’t throw down getting blitzed etc but drinking and snorting through to a bleak Monday shiver? Not quite the same, mostly due to possible loss of work benefits or immigration or my bother’s gay clique confronting a bust
Even then, had weekends in Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore et al with local hosts who were nightmarishly hardcore, tissues up bleeding nostrils tripping not slept for 4 days and before Tuesday they’re offering you raw heroin on tick
The few witnessed missed the absolute anarchy British people, particularly, are capable of bringing with powders and potions, not to say y’all can’t throw down getting blitzed etc but drinking and snorting through to a bleak Monday shiver? Not quite the same, mostly due to possible loss of work benefits or immigration or my bother’s gay clique confronting a bust
Even then, had weekends in Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore et al with local hosts who were nightmarishly hardcore, tissues up bleeding nostrils tripping not slept for 4 days and before Tuesday they’re offering you raw heroin on tick
line b
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Thats an amazing book
shakahislop
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I really can't remember. I think there's a lot of stuff in it about the night being a place of sex and mystery, and a lot of floating around Paris at night going into bars, finding lovers, random encounters. Which is a different thing to the scene myth / reality. It's about 20 years since I read it though
line b
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Really all that I remember 'happening' is extended monologues roughly on the theme of transformation. Theres the girl and her two lovers and then theres what I thought to be the neat device where slowly the doctor character, kind of a mysticall all knowing clown figure, is revealed to be not exactly the narrator or main character but something in that zone. Then theres the great final scene where one of the characters gets on all fours and starts acting like a rabid dog
line b
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But ya there is alot of going to cafes and then going to peoples dingy apartments once theyve made the initial connection. Id like to read it again, its very short. I wanted to read more of her but it doesnt seem like she wrote much and i think nightwood is maybe the only proper novel, but I could be wrong. Ts eliot said about her that "never has so much genioud been paired with so little talent' or something like that
line b
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Lets try again. I lent my copy out and then it was lost but ive just ordered another one so youve got some time to prepare
version
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Her profile of Joyce in Paris is cool.
Djuna Barnes Talks to James Joyce In Paris
Barnes on Joyce’s character, his ability as a singer, and his then forthcoming Ulysses.
shakahislop
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can't you just type it out on here
shakahislop
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we can give each para some react emojis