My triumphant return to reading

[linebaugh]

Im currently in the midst of a return to the written word. Im 60 pages into wyndham lewis's Apes of God which is enough to declare this real. I think its been a year and a half or so. What have I missed?

 

[WashYourHands]

Pogue Mahone, double dare you to take it on next, many thanks to @jenks for referencing

 

[catalog]

I'm struggling a bit with reading myself, took crime and punishment to America expecting to finish it bug I'm barely halfway through. It's good though, loads of bits to discuss.

 

[WashYourHands]

Reread In Parenthesis recently and even though it’s by no means new, it is a unique fall into WWI’s monstrous barbarism. Might (might) be the most creative text there’s been at fully gripping your understanding of borderline psychosis of death at scale, trauma, humour, colloquial records but more than any other work, a smattering of characters whose fates will still haunt you long after you finish

 

[version]

Linebaugh descending on his bookshelf to Ride of the Valkyries.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Reread In Parenthesis recently and even though it’s by no means new, it is a unique fall into WWI’s monstrous barbarism. Might (might) be the most creative text there’s been at fully gripping your understanding of borderline psychosis of death at scale, trauma, humour, colloquial records but more than any other work, a smattering of characters whose fates will still haunt you long after you finish

Thanks for the reminder (again) that I need to read this, just ordered a copy.

Have you read Anathemata too? That's supposed to be his masterpiece isn't it?

 

[luka]

dont think i could be fucked reading this book

 

[linebaugh]

Which book?

 

[luka]

your book

 

[luka]

its very long. you have to be convinced hes a genius to stay with him that long

 

[luka]

his style is really good when he wants it to be. theres nothing else like it in terms of laundered and talced masculiline prose

 

[luka]

is he a genius, or is he just stylish

 

[luka]

muscular athletic clean shaven prose like a jaguar car

 

[luka]

like, is he going to keep it up that long? wont he get bored with it

 

[woops]

nice trimly filleted prose steak in handmade leather shoes

 

[woops]

bespoke hand tossed word salad smoking a thigh rolled Cuban cigar

 

[linebaugh]

what does laundered and talced prose mean?

 

[woops]

expensively shaven writing style just out of the sauna and into a silk kimono

 

[luka]

you wouldnt understand you need to be a pro in the game to understand a slab of sirloin

 

[linebaugh]

its very dense prose. not sure Id call it 'masculine.' Its very visually oriented, much mind payed to the posture and micro gestures of all the characters but manages not to come of litigious. I wouldn't necessarily call it obtuse either but he's intensely dedicated to not saying anything straight. a character cant be referred to as the same thing twice, no simple verbs allowed ever.