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This Book Will Save Your Life
We Live in Water by Jess Walter
We Live in Water: Stories
by Jess Walter
read in June, 2013
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
read in June, 2004
While I don't actually have A Favorite Book (or Song, or Album, or Band, or Film, or Painting, or Sexual Position, or any other category of things that contain more than one equally great contender) Infinite Jest is the first book that immediately co...more
Joshua Nomen-Mutatio is on page 891 of 1079 of Infinite Jest: I've been hiding inside this book for the last few weeks, wanting to read nothing else ever again. It's a book that grows more perfect upon each re-read.
Infinite Jest
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I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where we can, at least temporarily, take apart and refuse to compete within the terms that the rest of existence insists on. Market value may come to drive out all other human values, except, perhaps, in the country of invented currency, the completely barter-driven economy of the imagination. Fiction, when it remembers its innate priority over other human transactions, can deal not in price but in worth. And that seems to me an act filled with political potential, as well as with pleasure.Richard Powers
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The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.Aldous Huxley
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A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
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A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
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“At night, when he is sure his father is sleeping, he sticks the phonograph needle in a rubber eraser and holds the eraser in his front teeth. Carefully, with his nose inches from the record, he sets the needle down. With a hiss and crackle, the music reverberates through the hollows of his mouth and throat without making a sound in the room. Ignoring the cramp in his neck, this is how he listens to his favorite records night after night.”
Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

Richard Powers
“I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where we can, at least temporarily, take apart and refuse to compete within the terms that the rest of existence insists on. Market value may come to drive out all other human values, except, perhaps, in the country of invented currency, the completely barter-driven economy of the imagination. Fiction, when it remembers its innate priority over other human transactions, can deal not in price but in worth. And that seems to me an act filled with political potential, as well as with pleasure.”
Richard Powers

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“[T]hey gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged for forgiveness for their desire to see more.”
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“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.”
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“After hearts shot through with arrows, we have bunnies followed by a warlike fire in the sky, then ghosts, turkeys to honor more ghosts, and a baby born in a barn who is not yet a ghost but also a ghost, for whom we drag trees inside where they do not belong.”
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The Feeding Stage (Ongoing Bits) (Literature & Fiction)
5 chapters   —   updated Feb 03, 2013 11:46pm
Description: Throwing out some bits 'n' pieces from a larger thing I'm working on. Testing out some of these bits, against better judgment, for some reason. I should probably just keep working on making the lengthier thing coherent, but here I am, making probably poor choices by emitting bits on a website that only a couple people, at best, will read. It'll be better in a cohered, larger form than in this bits 'n' pieces form. Hopefully. I guess I'm just looking for feedback, bit by bit.
My Favorite Books Published In 2012 (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Nov 28, 2012 03:59am
Description: Year of the Mayan Conspiracy Theory, Faves
Flashing Fragments (Literature & Fiction)
4 chapters   —   updated Nov 18, 2012 04:47am
Description: Flash fiction.
The Kingdom of Ends (Fragments in Progress) (Literature & Fiction)
7 chapters   —   updated Nov 16, 2012 06:40am
Description: Various short fiction things in various states of completion, highly incomplete for the most part. There's an overarching vision of them being loosely interconnected while also being distinct and standalone. Heady ideas about cause and effect, the paths in between, the end-goal meaning of things, etc, conveyed through (hopefully) entertaining stories about fairly relatable human things.
Exercises in Hint Fiction (Literature & Fiction)
10 chapters   —   updated Jan 18, 2012 03:12pm
Description: Hint fiction is a structure that finds flash fiction to be too wordy and as such limits "stories" to 25 words or less. Discovered this amusing, writerly exercise and began rattling a few off over at Karen Brissette's review of a hint fiction anthology: http://tinyurl.com/7j3tl9s
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