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“Plot form has receded from the conscious mind… grammatical form has ceased to be palpable.” I have to wonder if Shklovsky ever read any Arno Schmidt

Never really read Collins before, this might not be the right collection to start with — not liking this!

“thing” is an underrated word tbh

Typo on 124 let’s tighten it up folks

“And you’re basing your vision of straight life on James Bond?” Is quite funny in context

Back pain is just cosmic dysphoria personified etc we’re all into spinal catastrophism deep down

Incredible things happen on this and the previous page

Making a point of reading something by each one of Robert Lowell’s ex-wives. Hardwick has been my fave but this is solid so far

Passage in here reminded me of the Dr. Evil group therapy monologue

Massive amounts of cope going on here

“… my enemy will ponder my prose well.”

Loving this

Wow maybe the most “plot”, all happening in relatively few pages in this volume

When the narrator refers to the name (Marcel) of the person writing the book it feels like a crazy development

Onwards with Proust !

This is twisted lol loving it

Centrist Liberal minstrel troupe is a great bit

Revisiting an old favourite. It’s still good, obviously

“My students were very strange Catalans who were studying the Kabbalah or the Torah, from which they drew heterodox conclusions that freaked me out.”

I love when Bolaño just lists names

"... he wants an opportunity to travel in his country: cheap excursions such as they have in Nazi Germany, proletarian boat-trips down the Volga..." Wilson walks right up to the point here and totally misses it

Wilson is such a lucid and gifted storyteller this rocks

Reminds me of Arno Schmidt in that you immediately recognize why an English Language translation took so long to come out

So far this isn’t nearly as objectionable as Their Four Hearts — plenty of time to get weird though

My Day in the Other Land is Handke’s first new fiction since winning the Nobel let’s see if he’s still got it

You always hear about the Hitler essay in this volume. But did you know there’s also a close reading of a Paul Celan poem that immediately precedes that lol

Karl Ove wishes he was Peter Handke soooo bad

Finally going to finish the Struggle

Never would’ve thought there were mormons in Europe

I think this is officially released today definitely pick it up if you see it