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absolutely baller move from Knausgaard reading a woman Celan’s Death Fugue and passing it off as his own work

Karl Ove is like Rodney Dangerfield — he gets no respect, no respect at all

in our darkest moments of writers workshop anger, we are all Dadaists

only really familiar with Schuyler’s poetry, this seems promising though

the Jon Fosse Extended Literary Universe

90% of the time Knausgaard talks about drinking it’s about how it rocks and continues to raise his spirit without fail, the other 10% of the time it’s about how sometimes he’ll get so drunk he’ll slash his own face with a razor

where are my struggleheads at wake up it’s time to chase that struggle

“my earliest memory is of a dream”

i can usually tell after ten pages if a Handke novel is going to be a banger, this one is on the right track

nothing beats Barthelme’s illustrated stories. real sense of whimsy there

getting sooooo close to being a Barthelme completionist

“I was not interested in making a contribution to knowledge; I was interested in getting a grant.” amen brother

feel like Dyer is slightly behind the trends here, as 1) the Henry Miller revival already happened (to the extent that that ever could) and 2) the autofiction boom more or less ended when covid started

i like how much this is just about Bob Dylan’s ceaseless touring so far

there is piety in never writing anything - look at Jesus, look at Buddha

time flies like an arrow
fruit flies like a cantaloupe

sensing a motif here re: book critics

“No Hell, then?”
“Not inside the Earth, anyway.”

“One poor devil’s taxes for a whole year will hardly buy one ermine tail”

“the rankest treason is being danced here!”

ale loyalty is so important

“Always correct to blame the French for things”

rare feat: each page is better than the last

“My social life had fallen to pieces. I could no longer show my face down at the soupçon.”

the novel is already top tier and then mason and dixon get to america like 280 pages in and it just sends it to a different league altogether, Pynchon is a generational talent

contextually we can assume Mason was 5 foot 1 inch