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Why did no one ever tell me that this is really funny

“L’antifa”

Houellebecq is so unserious lol

I love reading Malaparte as much as the next guy. But I do think more people needed to interrupt him and say “what the fuck are you talking about”

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Barthelme was an unfunny and worse writer

This is so ridiculous I love it

Not so easy to find a copy of this these days I’m told. Sounds like a skill issue, I found it for $8 Canadian in pretty good condition. I have not enjoyed the first 10 pages

Knausgaard wants to be Handke soooo bad but his instincts land him closer to say, Stephen King. Tragic in its own right but Knausgaard wouldn’t complain

Knowledge is a submarine!

Can’t believe it took me this long to get around to Percival Everett. He’s got the juice

Love “distinguishedlooking” as one word

Used the word “eccentric” twice in 20 pages. I can see why this was out of print for twenty years

“Dark dome received” lol

“Bald he was and a millionaire” maybe my favourite sentence so far

It’s going to be a Nabokov summer

“You ever wish you could disappear from all of this?”

This is Ellis’ best novel imo, so carefully constructed despite sometimes feeling like pages on pages of vapid chit chat. Of course they all wish they could disappear because they’ve all basically already disappeared into the simulacrum of MTV tabloid style fame where any one “celeb” is replaceable and interchangeable by design

“There may be some good in this”
“That may be… but I do not know what it is”

If this is really a takedown of Leibniz then we are basically purporting to be smarter than God here. It’s a shame no one was around to give these enlightenment freaks a swirlie and / or wedgie

I did not expect to like this but lol, lmao even

Well it seems like it took about a decade but his wife does seem to be responding to his letters with some form of regularity now

Imagine serving Nabokov and all he orders is a hot chocolate

Knausgaard has written so many scenes where someone fights with a kid about eating dinner

Going to be honest a lot of his pet names are making me sick to my stomach if a man calls you “kitty kin” “puss” or “rooster kin” he probably wants to wear your skin

Bro last night was a Flemish painting

Finally getting around to Walker Percy and I’m kicking myself for waiting this long

It’s funny when someone (like miller) is so righteous with absolutely zero tangible politics. At most it seems he is simply aesthetically uninterested in “power”, but he does seem to have a thing for the Antebellum South …

It’s always fun to speak quasi-mystically about translation, say something like, my job as a translator is to act as a midwife of the text birthing it’s own essence, but ultimately I do think it’s as simple as this: good translation is the translation of style. You can outsource comprehension to anyone, but not everyone can translate style.

lmao. Two long screeds by Knausgaard airing his grievances against “swedish feminists” responded to in like by Fredrik Ekelund just kind of meekly going, wow some great fixtures on tonight. Footy really is the beautiful game

Had not considered that Di María looks a lot like Kafka

Hard disagree with Penman about Mann’s Collateral

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