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forgot about the comet coinciding with Rebekah’s, cosmically moving stuff

re-reading a lot of the american pomo guys lately, it’s like comfort food now. first school of writers that really throttled me

follows all the impulses of musical theatre

one of the funniest books ever written

can’t imagine what it would have been like to see this in 1896

“(He goes off)” is truly a stage direction a century ahead of its time

the noble art of piano circus

ornate syntactic structures; triumph over a writer’s stutter?

great sentences as expected

forget the anxiety of influence. it’s all about the schizophrenia of influence

in a bizarre and cosmic synchronous display Nicholson Baker followed me on twitter while i was reading this yesterday. luckily i think the book is great

picking up on diurnal rhythm that i did not notice in high school when i first read this. come to think of it i don’t think i knew what the word diurnal meant in high school

“pretty sexually adroit” is such a John Barth sentence

reading this because there is an image from Baker’s Room Temperature (baby drinking a bottle like they were playing a trumpet) that has stuck with me for years now

re-read time

Knausgaard takes issue with antisemitism in Felix Krull yet showers Knut Hamsun with praise in every book he writes lol

Knausgaard offers up details that guantanamo wouldn't be able to get out of me

Karl Ove is braver than any combat veteran

lots of kropotkin name dropping here

gunnar screaming at a 17 year old Knausgaard because he doesn’t like his review of a popular record

subterranean futures 🔜

karl ove and his music fan friends seemed like such insufferable dipshits lol

you can apply Virilio’s concept of accident to God’s creation of man lol

finally getting around to finishing this one, Agamben’s commentary ability here is really saving my opinion of him

promised myself i would finish the struggle books this year

“but if people all over the world had given up studying english because its hard to pronounce, english wouldn’t have spread so far and wide.”
i have some other ideas about how english spread and it has very little to do with voluntary studying

the literary speculative climate disaster novel - get ready for many more of these

good bit of argument over colloquial use of “fuck” - whether to register it as noun or verb. Lawrence setting himself up for alley oops off the backboard here on the limits of linguistic representation of sexuality