constant escape
winter withered, warm
Converse astral projection: bring the crowd to you!
what are you reading now?
'friday or the other island' by michel tournier, mentioned in the etymology thread.
anyone read it?
very funny, sort of parody retelling of robinson crusoe, but with theory philosophy sexual perversion skew. sample quote from early on, where he regresses to his animal instincts in terms of walking/eating/shitting
"His hands had become mere forepaws used for walking, since it made him giddy to stand upright... Exiled from the mass of his fellows, who had sustained him as a part of humanity without his realising it, he felt that he no longer had the strength to stand on his own feet. He lived on unmentionable foods, gnawing them with his face to the ground. He relieved himself where he lay, and rarely failed to roll in the damp warmth of his own excrement."
anyone read it?
very funny, sort of parody retelling of robinson crusoe, but with theory philosophy sexual perversion skew. sample quote from early on, where he regresses to his animal instincts in terms of walking/eating/shitting
"His hands had become mere forepaws used for walking, since it made him giddy to stand upright... Exiled from the mass of his fellows, who had sustained him as a part of humanity without his realising it, he felt that he no longer had the strength to stand on his own feet. He lived on unmentionable foods, gnawing them with his face to the ground. He relieved himself where he lay, and rarely failed to roll in the damp warmth of his own excrement."
Benny Bunter
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IME a good way of learning another language is to try a translation of something you've read before and are really familar with - obv even better if you have copies in both languages to compare. I did this with a few books like Where the wild things are when i was learning spanish and it really helped. You get less bogged down in constantly looking up words you don't know.
version
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Just ordered loads of books. Some of them have already arrived,
The Tunnel, William Gass.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe.
The Occult Roots of Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.
Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth.
Count Zero, William Gibson.
VALIS, PKD.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, PKD.
The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil.
The Crystal World, Ballard.
The Tunnel, William Gass.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe.
The Occult Roots of Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.
Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth.
Count Zero, William Gibson.
VALIS, PKD.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, PKD.
The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil.
The Crystal World, Ballard.