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Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
— Nov 17, 2009 09:47AM
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Stuff I haven't written about: a shitship, incest, Rossini vs. Beethoven, Rocketman, and endless orgies on the good ship Anibus.
— Dec 05, 2009 10:36PM
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Had a long argument with David about this book's 'preciousness.' That's total bullshit, I told him. And it is. The book is amazing.
— Nov 16, 2009 10:42PM
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Damn it's funny. Not just the shit-journey in the Roseland (with Malcolm X!) but the goddamn nasty English candies. Awesome.
— Nov 09, 2009 09:09PM
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I love Roger Mexico's annoyance when he tries to explain Poisson distribution and randomness.
— Nov 09, 2009 09:06PM
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"eyes boxing the corners of the room at top speed, a pornography customer's reflex"
— Nov 07, 2009 07:38AM
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I've decided to re-read this. It's been years. And the opening pages are as confusing as I remember. Until we get out of Prentice's dream.
— Nov 04, 2009 08:41PM
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I love the Proverbs. Also, who called this book "precious?!"
A friend who's a writer. He thought it was too clever and precious. I called bullshit and we kinda let it drop. I'm ok with a specific critique, but any vague shit like "too clever" or "inauthentic" always strikes me as crap.
Shit, I've missed jotting down some of the proverbs.Anyway, "Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations."
Ok, thanks to the internet, I don't have to stumble about. Here's the others:
3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
4. You hide, they seek.
Also, I misremembered the role of the Grigori the Octopus. For some reason, I remembered him as telepathic or telekinetic, and I only vaguely remembered his monster movie attack on Katje. And holy shit, the zoot suit episode with the tank and the ridiculous party was awesome. This book is crammed full of awesome.