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Wait, so if I accept the eternal recurrence of the same, does that mean I have to accept watching this abysmally crappy season of True Detective over and over again for all of eternity?? Oh lord, please let time be linear!

A security guard at work just asked me if I was reading Wyatt Earp. lol

"...the single most important virtue in the Nietzschean canon - 'giving style to one's character.'"

Three BIG BOOKS I'll be tackling before the year is out : The Dying Grass - Divine Days - and Miss Mac -- what BIG BOOKS are you looking forward to, goodly Goodreaders?

"[Nietzsche] accuses Hegel of exerting 'an almost tyrannical influence,' and he complains, in The Birth Of Tragedy, that his own work 'smells offensively Hegelian.'"

"Nor is Jesus ever far from Nietzsche's mind. Together with Socrates, the first (and Nietzsche says 'only') Christian provided the paradigm that Nietzsche sought to follow throughout his career-not just a philosopher, not just a moralist, but a true revolutionary, a voluptuary, a sterling example (if only for 'the few')."

Interesting that Nietzsche found such affinity and commonality with Spinoza : "I have a precursor, and what a precursor! ... My lonesomeness is now at least a twosomeness."

HEY man who just now sat down at my cafe table while I'm reading in peace and took out his phone and started yakking loudly while wolfing down food, maybe have some courtesy and don't do that BECAUSE I'M FUCKING READING! Dick.

Anyway, what would a "morality for cows" be, literally?

Pindar :: Aristotle -- 2 rad doodz

Any recommendations on which version/translation/edition of The Tale Of Genji I should be acquiring? Many thanks...

Lookin' for one of them "classic covers" cloth handbags of Nietzsche's The Antichrist

When I read Alexander Theroux I learn so many delicious new words! Oh, if only more writers respected their audience's intelligence enough to trust they will go to the dictionary when necessary, and treasure all the new words they discover! Theroux's lexical breadth & obscurity is a gift to you, dear readers - a generous gift!

Oh yes, it's been a long time since I've been with a writer as masterful with language as Theroux. Started Mrs. Proby over from the beginning just to hear that motherf*cker sing...

11 days until The Dying Grass. I think I can fit in another novel before then...

Absolute Recoil should be on my doorstoop when I get home from work this evening. I'll add it to the row of 480 other Zizek books I haven't got around to reading yet. I've bought, and not read, so many of his books! So why am I still a little giddy to get home tonight and peruse this another to-read! Maybe it's just holding the object creates a psychological affinity...

This volume's a bit like Henry Miller, if you replaced the scenes in Henry Miller where he claims his giant member instantly induces multiple orgasms in any woman it touches with scenes where he prematurely ejaculates and quietly cries by himself in shame.

I'm thankful to have read Gaddis Pynchon & Vollmann because I feel always more certain that the American reality I move around in every day is the reality of the books of Gaddis Pynchon & Vollmann.

What is the literary equivalent of Caillebotte's paintings of Parisian streets?

Are there such things as literary communities these days outside of universities? Where writers and artists in other mediums hang out in the same place in a city and discuss/debate/inspire each other? Does that still exist? If so, where and who do they consist of? Seems to me we're all just a bunch of lonely atoms... but what do I know about it? Enlighten me...

"Oh, this is the song about being sixteen years old and sitting on a bus and thinking about her, the one, not knowing that feelings will slowly, slowly, weaken and fade, that life, that which is now so vast and all-embracing, will inexorably dwindle and shrink until it is a manageable entity that doesn't hurt so much, but nor is it as good."

Fantastic article from LRB on Ornette Coleman http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n14/adam-sha...

Kind of sad to see this volume coming to an end. It's been very good.

Men write, and read, big, complicated post-modern tomes because they have small, unimpressive rudimentary penises. Happy 4th of July fireworks Kenny Chesney Ted Cruz potato salad mayonnaise weekend!!!

Listing 'To Kill A Mockingbird" as your favorite book on Facebook is exactly the same as writing in your About Me "I've literally tried the least as is humanly possible throughout my entire life" OK Happy 4th of July powdered macaroni pouch BBQ weekend USA!!

Reading GRR Martin in public is the equivalent of wearing a sign around your neck announcing "I've had a lobotomy". Happy 4th of July BBQ hotdog ketchup weekend everybody OK!!

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer" is such a stupid quote, Dan Brown. The first sentence is redundant, the second is nonsense. Only the kind of drooling moronic plebes who are anticipating Harper Lee's new book would 'like' such a quote. Happy 4th of July BBQ hamburger everybody!!

Wherein Karl Ove cried every time John McEnroe lost.