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Nick Black
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Ulysses, Infinite Jest, Naked Lunch, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Pow
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"Am I truly the only one who does not become wide-eyed and vehemently convinced of a man’s innocence simply because a Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells me I should?
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‘A safe distance away, he turned back. She looked serene—a still point amidst this hurly-burly. Something wilted inside him. He had to meet her again. Already he was thinking how best to find her. He could still see her face. What is it, he wonder" Read more of this review » |
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'Languages change, disappear, reappear, and live on thanks to the principle of inclusivity, and die thanks to the principle of exclusivity. The language of literature tomorrow may be general and visual, new hieroglyphs, a more sophisticated or eve" Read more of this review » |
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'I don’t know what you are made of, I swear.' Lispector is not for everyone (needless to say/reiterate), but she's forever the one for me. The more I read, and re-read her, I am drenched in awe, gratitude, and limitless, raw, unadulterated admirat" Read more of this review » |
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actually, while i say it was a bad investment of $140, it's probably not in a literal sense. vollmann's other multivolume sets have skyrocketed in val
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volume i reviewed (3 stars) volume ii reviewed (3 stars) volume iii reviewed (3 stars) volume iv reviewed (2 stars) i'll probably put some summing-up thoughts here, but those four reviews will tell you most of what i thought. was this a solid investment ...more |
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| come at me, brah. i really wanted to like this. i was going around to all manner of people when the (beautiful) box set finally arrived, preordered months prior at $140. i'd read the rainbow stories, which i thought were pretty good. beyond that, ju ...more | |
“...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough”
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“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should guess that he was less muscular than at first sight he looked. He had large staring blue eyes and a damp and pendulous lower lip. He didn't look in the least like an intellectual. Creative people of his abundant kind never do, of course, but all the talk of Rutherford looking like a farmer was unperceptive nonsense. His was really the kind of face and physique that often goes with great weight of character and gifts. It could easily have been the soma of a great writer. As he talked to his companions in the streets, his voice was three times as loud as any of theirs, and his accent was bizarre…. It was part of his nature that, stupendous as his work was, he should consider it 10 per cent more so. It was also part of his nature that, quite without acting, he should behave constantly as though he were 10 per cent larger than life. Worldly success? He loved every minute of it: flattery, titles, the company of the high official world...But there was that mysterious diffidence behind it all. He hated the faintest suspicion of being patronized, even when he was a world figure.
Archbishop Lang was once tactless enough to suggest that he supposed a famous scientist had no time for reading. Rutherford immediately felt that he was being regarded as an ignorant roughneck. He produced a formidable list of his last month’s reading. Then, half innocently, half malevolently: "And what do you manage to read, your Grice?"
I am afraid", said the Archbishop, somewhat out of his depth, "that a man in my position doesn't really have the leisure..."
Ah yes, your Grice," said Rutherford in triumph, "it must be a dog's life! It must be a dog's life!”
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Archbishop Lang was once tactless enough to suggest that he supposed a famous scientist had no time for reading. Rutherford immediately felt that he was being regarded as an ignorant roughneck. He produced a formidable list of his last month’s reading. Then, half innocently, half malevolently: "And what do you manage to read, your Grice?"
I am afraid", said the Archbishop, somewhat out of his depth, "that a man in my position doesn't really have the leisure..."
Ah yes, your Grice," said Rutherford in triumph, "it must be a dog's life! It must be a dog's life!”
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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
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hey goodreads peeps! if you've enjoyed reading my reviews, maybe you'd enjoy reading my book, The Finest Machine. and if you think that's plausible, perhaps you'd even like to fund my writing of that book:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/n...
help me become a Goodreads Author so i can start spamming people with friend requests etc! any contribution is appreciated. thanks homies!
Goodreads must have the date wrong...silly Goodreads, always having glitches, right? right?!?Oh well.
Happy Birthday/unbirthday.
Thanks for the invite:).....Your profile is quite interesting !
Um, that book about Napoleon's Russian Campaign is only a buck fifty used, so come October, I'll be needing your address. For gifting purposes. Of course. Well. Maybe. I might also ask math questions.
They'll look like Algebra III. I've got everything before that covered.
Elizabeth wrote: "Excuse me, sir, but have you seen this? http://ulyssesseen.com/"i had not. some wanks at my beloved Georgia Tech of all places tweeted it once or something. ugh it depresses me to think about.
Impersonation was spot-on! Every paragraph should suggest, permit glimpses of, motion towards a hundred other stories.
Yes, I did see that. Good fun.Did you get the Wallace thesis? I hadn't seen your e-mail address posted in response way back in November 2010 until today.
MyFleshSingsOut wrote: ""she-blinded-me-with-science" and "stupidly-expensive" are both great shelf names.Incidentally, I've recently begun using "blinded with science" as a euphemism for smoking weed. A friend bought a..."
heh, i hope you've been to my profile and seen the FEATURED "covers are for proles" shelf.
"she-blinded-me-with-science" and "stupidly-expensive" are both great shelf names.Incidentally, I've recently begun using "blinded with science" as a euphemism for smoking weed. A friend bought a slightly unusual toking apparatus that he dubbed the "science pipe". Hence...
Nick wrote: "muh wa ahahahahahahaha i have Featured my unstoppable juggernaut of a COVER IMAGE NOT ON HAND SHELF, and it looks marvelous!awesome"
love it
Just saw your kind note of a few months ago - I disabled all my notifications at some point, not realizing that included profile notes and comments and stuff. Anyway, salve Nick, and valete yourself. Hope all's well.
muh wa ahahahahahahaha i have Featured my unstoppable juggernaut of a COVER IMAGE NOT ON HAND SHELF, and it looks marvelous!
awesome
ah, i see. if there is, i do not know it. that might be one of the things they teach you upon graduation from library school, or when you first start working in one, i don't know. i may have someone i can ask, if you like...
karen wrote: "hmm - are you looking for some sort of visual shelving unit graphic?? or are you asking for shelving standards and practices?? i'm not sure i am following you"so i want to make a nice legend/pictomap of the information provided in comment #32 here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
if you're doing, say, a process flowchart or an entity-relationship diagram or street signage, there are standard designs. does any such thing apply to library/book maps? grok? xoxo
hmm - are you looking for some sort of visual shelving unit graphic?? or are you asking for shelving standards and practices?? i'm not sure i am following you
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MyFleshSingsOut wrote: "Never mind. I see you already added it to your "to-read" list. I have a pdf copy of the original if you want it. Just send me an e-mail address."dank@qemfd.net if you'd please!
Never mind. I see you already added it to your "to-read" list. I have a pdf copy of the original if you want it. Just send me an e-mail address.
Sorry I missed you yesterday, Dank, happy belated. 30 years, and at the very least least one faithful devout. You've got ~three more to catch Jesus.
I've attempted delving into Ulysses several times now, to no great avail. But I'm moving back up to school today, selecting which books to use as antidote to what the "humanities" professors will try to impress upon me (before I am to attempt my fate-entwined jump across the chasm into the sciences, إن شاء الل), opened the opus to a random page and was instantaneously and wildly consumed by laughter of a most uproarious nature; and I was by no means even processing the text thoroughly! I was just enraptured by laughter. Urrrrghhhh, I lost the page. But just thought if anybody would be able to grok with me on this lil anecdote here, it'd be you ;).
weren't you supposed to come visit in july?? did you stand me up?
Happy 10,890th day alive!Yayy for your large book collection!!
You OWN SIX high-power computers?!?!
explain yourself while i go fetch the mistletoe
I should clean out my bookmarks more often... I just found this, which is a "sequel" to American Psycho that BEE wrote via email subscription right before the film was released.
Natalie wrote: "I found this when I toured the remains of my ghost-town MySpace.An American Psycho Christmas."
that was pretty outstanding right thar. thanks, dear!
Conrad wrote: "Iowa. Iowa!"you son of a bitch!
holy cow!!but what's this about "tweaking"?? is this going to end up like e.t.-with-walkie-talkies??
do they need writers? where is that list??
true Southerners are well aware of Florida's at-best-pretender status.I get a pass... I was born in the Midwest. ;)
Yes, Florida is basically a dick-shaped Bible with a pair of Mickey Mouse ears.
*searching frantically for her turtleneck*
Natalie wrote: ""No matter what, don't live in the South. Southerners rarely qualify as geniuses..."Oh hey, we're BOTH fucked! "
true Southerners are well aware of Florida's at-best-pretender status. retired jooz and micky mouse do not a Confederacy make!
christ i can't believe i'm typing this garbage. i'm really trying to live some kind of sick defender-of-the-One-True-South facade here, aren't i. for chrissakes i write UNIX code and fuck girls in turtlenecks.
"No matter what, don't live in the South. Southerners rarely qualify as geniuses..."Oh hey, we're BOTH fucked!
Natalie wrote: "Publicized, indeed! Thanks, dear Harold Bloom of mine!"of course, the MacArthur Foundation continues their bewildering farce. WHERE IS MY PRIZE MOTHERFUCKERS C'MON I EVEN LOOK HISPANIC
http://www.slate.com/id/2174676/
Publicized, indeed! Thanks, dear Harold Bloom of mine!
Nick wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Isn't that still only one ho, Karen? 1^3 would still be 1, so wouldn't ho^3 still be ho?"daniel, you goddamned idiot, the point of it being a variable instead of a constant is we d..."
seriously, this kind of specious nonsensical argument leaves upon my tongue a taste most distaff and womanly. know your role, jabronie, lest i drop a People's Elbow!
Nick wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Isn't that still only one ho, Karen? 1^3 would still be 1, so wouldn't ho^3 still be ho?"daniel, you goddamned idiot, the point of it being a variable instead of a constant is we d..."
though, point of fact, when i first saw the image i thought "isn't it technically ho, ho, ho!? in that case, we need $((ho)^3)!$ but if it's ho!, ho!, ho! that's right out."
Daniel wrote: "Isn't that still only one ho, Karen? 1^3 would still be 1, so wouldn't ho^3 still be ho?"daniel, you goddamned idiot, the point of it being a variable instead of a constant is we don't know what it is.
if it was 0, it wouldn't be any hoes at all!
karen, thank you for your gracious comment. i will be touring northeastern graduate schools of repute this spring, and do hope i can drop in on you or something.
you know more about hos than i do. please educate.
Isn't that still only one ho, Karen? 1^3 would still be 1, so wouldn't ho^3 still be ho?
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I don't know what's hotter in that picture... you or the bong. ;)
So this arrived today... it's what I did with the gift card code you were kind enough to pass my way. *mwah* A thousand thanks, fair Nicholas. :)
Suffering Christ. More than twenty years later, and the Rock-afire band still makes me want to run screaming for my mommy. Something about anthropomorphic animatronics unleashes the Uncanny Valley effect and makes me want to curl into the fetal position.