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@14JUN1995
Transcendental Buffoon — world-historical ogre — One day we will be Yes-sayers
I discovered a new trick: reading books I actually want to read
I want to read the new Pynchon novel but I don’t want it to be the second Pynchon novel I’ve read… (I’ve only read Crying Lot)
readers of maximalist novels have pornofied their brains into believing undemanding prose is slop — “this prose is garbage, I can read it!”
readers of maximalist novels have pornofied their brains into believing undemanding prose is slop — “this prose is garbage, I can read it!”
readers of maximalist novels have pornofied their brains into believing undemanding prose is slop — “this prose is garbage, I can read it!”
james elkins, art historian turned experimental novelist? love to see it
The philosophers have only *mentioned* concepts, in various ways; the point is to *use* them.
I had the idea of reading Infinite Jest within the next year after I read the novels of 1922 (Woolf, Joyce, Cummings) — not that I think there’s any particular link between them
Looks like Little Brown might be doing a 30th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest after all amazon.com/Infinite-Anniv…