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raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love
cs lewis - mere christianity
vladimir nabakov - pale fire

I haven't read Pale Fire but I was told very recently (yesterday, I think?) that it's Nabokov's best work. So I'm sure I'll get to it sometime soon. How is it?

its good. takes a while to get into, with the whole poem/poem description narrative. Kinbote goes on long narrative tangents about some made up land. i've had an experimental fiction itch for a couple of years and this is going some way to scratch it.

WWTAWWTAL is interesting, it quite minimalistici guess . ive just been to dipping into it really

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The Assistant - Bernard Malamud

And

The Plot Against America - Philip Roth

Books about Jews in America, woot.

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The Assistant - Bernard Malamud

And

The Plot Against America - Philip Roth

Books about Jews in America, woot.

The Zoinist conspiracy!!!!

Does this dude even listen to the Mountain Goats?

Well this isn't even close to the right thread...

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Does this dude even listen to the Mountain Goats?

woooo, watz ya problem?!! E-throw down or something know wat im sayin?

went to a friends place last night and she was throwing away mountains of books, during the course of my rummaging through it i found Dune, so now i'm re-reading Dune after 12 years or so.

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went to a friends place last night and she was throwing away mountains of books, during the course of my rummaging through it i found Dune, so now i'm re-reading Dune after 12 years or so.

Good shit homes! I am thinking of doing dat shit myself! All the sequels and prequels by his son are interesting, but very shallow compared.

Yeah, I'm beginning my search for this book today.

[www.amazon.com]

I was told by a friend last night (this is no lie) that I could prolly find it at a place like Powell's which made me laff. But I'll have to settle for finding around here. If not then I'll breakdown and order it online.

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... Why do you permit your thoughts to rise and fall ... why do you let your senses deceive you as to the true unchanging nature of ... the eternal and tranquil Mind, and then do things in a reversed order which leads to motion and confusion and suffering? As one forgets the true nature of Mind, so he mistakes the reflections of objects as being his own mind, thus binding him to the endless movements and changes and sufferings of the recurring cycles deaths and re births that are of his own causing. You should regard all that changes as dust particles and that which is unchanging your own true Nature of Mind.

Can't wait to see what Jack's thoughts are on that.

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i have that book, got it as a present. opened it to a couple pages here and there. put it back down and walked away.

i could write down all my weird mystical ideas on thought and religion and this and that and why birds always face the way they do when they land on telephone wires.

but i won't.

because it'll end up something like jack's book there.

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why do birds always face the way they do when they land on telephone wires?

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because most things, maybe all things, you just don't have to know the reason why for.

the sky knows, and that should be enough to let you wa\onder confidently and comfortably within the supreme downy comfort of its sunlight/oxygen/gravity hug.

bug chug dug fug gug jug lug mug nug nug pug rug slug thug wug yug zug

do you breathe while you think? why breathe? why think? just brea\thinke like you always do, without thinking or breathing while you blink.

the constant instantaneous darkness behind your eyelids where you spend half your life is the dark to your eye's\mind's light. everything's right, at all times, all at one time. everything is right, slight is might, this. here. now. always. day. night. all. one.

sister ray

suckin on her ding dong

searching for my mainline

put it in sideways

don'tcha know you'll stain the carpet?

don't you know you'll mess the carpet?

whip it on me jim

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because most things you just don't have to know the reason why for.

Because we already know the only answer to 'why?' Is 'just cuz'.

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Nevermind what I said. Yes. Yes to everything you just said! Lol! Even your mad rhyming skillz!

You're really good at not answering non-questions (like Why not ask 'why'?)

You're really effortlessly good at a lot of things.

ETA: Interesting mix of those lyrics too, btw.

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i just finished reading Hitler's Private Library. It is a great read for the WWII-obsessed bibliophile everywhere.

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bug chug dug fug gug jug lug mug nug nug pug rug slug thug wug yug zug


suckin on her ding dong

searching for my mainline

QFT

reminds me in a weird way of Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)

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sister ray is a 17 minute long song at the very end of the velvet underground's second album, "white light/white heat."

i know for a fact that yoko is a fan.

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Just finished Jude the Obscure---a book so monumentally depressing that all the joy and light has been permanently sucked from the room in which I read it---and am now reading The Sound and the Fury, which, given the trajectory thus far, is not looking like it's going to be about puppies shitting rainbows, either.

finished definitive salinger bio, "a life raised high."

now on "the preacher."

will be on to "o henry" after the preacher.

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now on "the preacher."

the comic?

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yup. finished the first book.

on to o. henry.

while i put the second preacher book on hold at the liberry!

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I'm reading Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger right now. I'm fully convinced that "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is the greatest short story ever written. With the possible exception of some Flannery O'Connor stories.

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I'm reading Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger right now. I'm fully convinced that "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is the greatest short story ever written. With the possible exception of some Flannery O'Connor stories.

Chekhov?

Haven't gotten around to reading Chekhov yet. I desperately need to.

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I'm reading Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger right now. I'm fully convinced that "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is the greatest short story ever written. With the possible exception of some Flannery O'Connor stories.

nine stories. those're by buddy.

buddy glass.

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