Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

[sadmanbarty]

Not much fiction lately. I did listen to an audiobook of Isaac Asimov's "Hallucination" a couple weeks back. Ulysses I finished up maybe four months ago, and that was a half-year commitment.

Any recommendations?

I can’t read unfortunately.

Have you ever read any of these?:

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writin...ynolds-on-the-hardcore-continuum_introduction

 

[IdleRich]

How about The Recognitions by Gaddis? Forming a holy trinity with Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow.

 

[constant escape]

I can’t read unfortunately.

Have you ever read any of these?:

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writin...ynolds-on-the-hardcore-continuum_introduction

I have not, nor am I even familiar with Simon Reynolds, beyond maybe some essay about ccru.

I have trouble appreciating the significance of this, perhaps because I have yet to prioritize music in terms of research/contemplation. But if any of his essays can provide a nice introduction to components/veins in this Hardcore Continuum, then at least I'l be able to better appreciate much of the conversation here.

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version - even if I haven't read any of Pynchon yet?

 

[IdleRich]

I probably misunderstood above, apologies.

 

[constant escape]

How about The Recognitions by Gaddis? Forming a holy trinity with Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow.

Haven't even heard of this...

 

[sadmanbarty]

I probably misunderstood above, apologies.

Bastard

 

[sadmanbarty]

I have not, nor am I even familiar with Simon Reynolds, beyond maybe some essay about ccru.

I have trouble appreciating the significance of this, perhaps because I have yet to prioritize music in terms of research/contemplation. But if any of his essays can provide a nice introduction to components/veins in this Hardcore Continuum, then at least I'l be able to better appreciate much of the conversation here.

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version - even if I haven't read any of Pynchon yet?

Do you like Star Wars?

 

[IdleRich]

It probably does make me the bastard in this case.... laughing at a cruel joke that wasn't even being made.

 

[constant escape]

Do you like Star Wars?

Yeah, primarily the original though.

 

[IdleRich]

Constant - Recognitions is kinda like a proto-Pynchon to my mind, another huge slab of a book with millions of characters and locations and so on.

 

[luka]

I think you should read JH Prynne.

 

[sadmanbarty]

Yeah, primarily the original though.

Phew. I was starting to wonder if you were a pure intellectual specimen. A brain cryogenically suspended within a computer mainframe.

 

[IdleRich]

Wait up, that's what I thought you were implying.

 

[constant escape]

Constant - Recognitions is kinda like a proto-Pynchon to my mind, another huge slab of a book with millions of characters and locations and so on.

Well that, as well as the above trinity comment, is enough to secure its promise. I wonder, though, how easy it is to find a copy of (might be willing to hold off the attainment of it, in order to allow the glory of stumbling across it, finally securing it, etc).

I don't mean to derail this thread any further, but I appreciate the suggestions.

 

[IdleRich]

But not maliciously you say - fair enough.

 

[constant escape]

Phew. I was starting to wonder if you were a pure intellectual specimen. A brain cryogenically suspended within a computer mainframe.

Not gonna lie, that is something of a horizon for me. Seems to be the most promising ontology for enduring all this.

 

[constant escape]

I think you should read JH Prynne.

Not familiar with this name either. Similar to the other encyclopedic novels, etc?

 

[IdleRich]

Well that, as well as the above trinity comment, is enough to secure its promise. I wonder, though, how easy it is to find a copy of (might be willing to hold off the attainment of it, in order to allow the glory of stumbling across it, finally securing it, etc).
I don't mean to derail this thread any further, but I appreciate the suggestions.

Fair point... but, I don't know how hard it is to get that book, I have a copy that a friend left at my flat. But in general I hear what you're saying about finding books, when I lived in England my reading habits were - not fully dictated, but - certainly influenced by what I could find in charity shops.

 

[luka]

Not familiar with this name either. Similar to the other encyclopedic novels, etc?

https://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=15245&highlight=Prynne

 

[constant escape]

Fair point... but, I don't know how hard it is to get that book, I have a copy that a friend left at my flat. But in general I hear what you're saying about finding books, when I lived in England my reading habits were - not fully dictated, but - certainly influenced by what I could find in charity shops.

Similar to what I've heard from a vinyl enthusiast, about the search substantiating some good part of the satisfaction, etc.

Plus, what someone here mentioned, the possibility of finding something you didn't know you were searching for.