Post Modernism


The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
White Noise
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Infinite Jest
Gravity’s Rainbow
Simulacra and Simulation
Catch-22
V.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Lolita
House of Leaves
Pale Fire
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Invisible Cities
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. ...more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Blake Butler
Worse than knowing I needed out, I didn't know what I needed back into. Even when I could feel there was something else beyond the edges of any color in the street or window where no one waited even to just totally ignore me, I couldn't recognize it enough to know how to want it harder. Along each street it was as if I were waiting for some hole to swallow my face. Each moment it didn't made the going into the next step that much less worth doing. This is what life had always felt like. In my mi ...more
Blake Butler, Three Hundred Million

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