GhostofKinski
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Racist.
what are you reading now?
Murphy
cat malogen
went through an online retailer but have a week off due and want to smash into it when fewer distractions present
I've only Little Dorrit and Curiosity Shop to compare it to, but Dickens definitely seems more experimental and scathing here. I learned my lesson with the last two, so am avoiding Googling any characters or developments in case I run into spoilers again.
As before, feel a bit gutted I came to Dickens so late. I blame sappy TV adaptations: it's crazy how so many of them filtered out the black humour and dissections of social interactions he's so good at
woops
is not like other people
I've got Penman's Satie book. It's always a pleasure to read about the Beautiful Epoch. However, pointing out that Satie is one letter from satire adds nothing of any relevance.
I've just got to the bit where he tells the reader that "furniture" includes "urn" and "future". Yes you're right, well spotted, but why leave out "fun", "unit", etc and Satie used the word "ameublement" anyway. I fail to see why he includes such stuff.
I've just got to the bit where he tells the reader that "furniture" includes "urn" and "future". Yes you're right, well spotted, but why leave out "fun", "unit", etc and Satie used the word "ameublement" anyway. I fail to see why he includes such stuff.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Very Trumpian insult, this
luka
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william_kent
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The History Of Bones - A Memoir - John Lurie
I started reading this and I was thinking "this book really needs an editor" but then I realised I was reading it wrong - once I mentally transformed the text into lowercase, removed any line breaks or paragraph formatting, and replaced any full stop with an ellipsis then I held in my hands the imaginary first novel by @kid charlemagne and it's a classic, although I have confidence that @kid charlemagne can do better than this, but it will have to do for now
synopsis: a tale of a young man who moves to the lower east side, forms a no wave band, hangs out with artists, picks up a heroin habit, and sleeps with all the most beautiful druggy women in New York
here's a sample where he reminisces about Basquiet ( this has been processed through my mental transformer ):
there's a whole section that he calls a "footnote" where he gets angry about Jim Jarmusch stealing his ideas for a couple of pages - here's a snippet:
I started reading this and I was thinking "this book really needs an editor" but then I realised I was reading it wrong - once I mentally transformed the text into lowercase, removed any line breaks or paragraph formatting, and replaced any full stop with an ellipsis then I held in my hands the imaginary first novel by @kid charlemagne and it's a classic, although I have confidence that @kid charlemagne can do better than this, but it will have to do for now
synopsis: a tale of a young man who moves to the lower east side, forms a no wave band, hangs out with artists, picks up a heroin habit, and sleeps with all the most beautiful druggy women in New York
here's a sample where he reminisces about Basquiet ( this has been processed through my mental transformer ):
there's a whole section that he calls a "footnote" where he gets angry about Jim Jarmusch stealing his ideas for a couple of pages - here's a snippet: