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Mel Mudkiper posted:Well yeah but you cannot call an award that has gone to Kawabata, Morrison, Saramago, Marquez, Naipaul and Walcott a failure to execute It's also not gone to Joyce, Nabokov, Borges, Woolf, Tolstoy, or Rushdie, and has gone to more Scandinavians than Africans. But yeah the last few decades are a lot better.
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Rupi Kaur, a trending poetess of Instagram, has recently gained critical acclaim online for her newly published poetry collection milk and honey which is a stunning depiction of trauma, survival, love, womanhood, and friendship. Identifying as a first-generation Canadian, Punjabi-Sikh, woman of color, Kaur works visually in her book and on Instagram to portray and subvert how space functions to produce the gendered, diasporic subject as a body that is “unhomed.” Through the complex interplay of illustrated imagery and verse, Kaur contests the violent spatial (and bordering) practices of nationalism by positioning her poems’ personae in new and different ways to occupy, produce, and claim space off and online—performances of celebration, reclamation, resistance, and ultimately, acts of (de)colonial self-love. Kaur’s art and cyberspatial narration adds an important dimension to considering the colonial project of space. Occupying space on Instagram, Kaur supplants the place where women have traditionally been relegated. It is exactly the embodied telling of Kaur’s artwork that she attributes to the importance of its public nature: the Instagram becomes the home—rehomed by her art—whereas the nation becomes the network. Through Kaur’s narratives shared online, Kaur connects to a cyberspatial sisterhood and demonstrates that healing through narrative is necessarily collective.
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A human heart posted:Her nose is seriously impressive. How come you've never said anything about Mitch Albom's nose
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Peel posted:https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/profile-rupi-kaur-author-of-milk-and-honey.html solid profile quote:“This guy is the best,” she says, noticing an edition of Kafka’s complete stories; she’s referring to Peter Mendelsund, the book’s designer.
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tbf a good book cover is really nice
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Peel posted:tbf a good book cover is really nice If my disposable income were, like, an order of magnitude higher I would literally buy everything the Folio Society has made. Don't get me wrong: they're absolutely overpriced based on the relatively few number of illustrations and so forth. But they are gorgeous. Man, looking at the page, they have a printing of The Exorcist now. Goddamnit, they're so hard to order from (my bank rejects the overseas purchase, then I have to call them, then they say to try again, it fails again, then they put me through to someone high up who has to push the purchase through manually).
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There's a worse phenomenon than Rupi Kaur which I find really funny and it's the very horny typewriter men of Instagram
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As discussed before, you shouldn't read a book unless the cover is either a bunch of floating geometric shapes or a male silhouette running down an abstract hallway
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CestMoi posted:How come you've never said anything about Mitch Albom's nose I've not seen a picture of him until just now, and I can't find any that really allow for a good evaluation of his schnozz, so I will have to remain agnostic with respect to the Albom nose for the moment.
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I think WIlliam Vollman's remarkably ugly.
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J_RBG posted:There's a worse phenomenon than Rupi Kaur which I find really funny and it's the very horny typewriter men of Instagram cosmic brain: they're the same
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Mr. Squishy posted:I think WIlliam Vollman's remarkably ugly. he looks like beebee880
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Oct 7, 2017 16:57
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Malone Dies was the poo poo
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WatermelonGun posted:Malone Dies was the poo poo I should read the trilogy again.
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I read The Trial for the first time and it rules, now I want to read more Kafka. I've just read that and Metamorphosis, what would you consider essential by him? Or should I just read it all?
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The Castle is one of my best books 5 eva
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just read it all, maybe leave Amerikkka last
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Ya, reading all of Kafka isn't an insurmountable task.
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I bought Tristram Shandy and after reading a sermon and being asked for his opinion on it Trim and Toby are just endlessly talking about fortifications again, for like the 3rd time, good book.
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smug n stuff posted:I read The Trial for the first time and it rules, now I want to read more Kafka. I've just read that and Metamorphosis, what would you consider essential by him? Or should I just read it all? Penal Colony, Country Doctor, Hunter Gracchus + the one where an orangutan explains why he's upset that he revaled he could talk are top tier Kafka shorts. The Castle is amazing. Read it all everything he wrote is great I'm probably forgetting loads of short stories that are amazing he was good at writing
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Buschmaki posted:I bought Tristram Shandy and after reading a sermon and being asked for his opinion on it Trim and Toby are just endlessly talking about fortifications again, for like the 3rd time, good book. Tristram Shandy is myt favourite book where multiple penises get crushed
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CestMoi posted:Penal Colony, Country Doctor, Hunter Gracchus + the one where an orangutan explains why he's upset that he revaled he could talk are top tier Kafka shorts. The Castle is amazing. Read it all everything he wrote is great I'm probably forgetting loads of short stories that are amazing he was good at writing I like the one where a mole is worried.
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Would Eco's fiction be considered serious fiction? I liked In the Name of the Rose, but found Foucalt's Pendulum too... up itself. Currently reading Baudolino.
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Samovar posted:Would Eco's fiction be considered serious fiction? I liked In the Name of the Rose, but found Foucalt's Pendulum too... up itself. Currently reading Baudolino. I'm currently reading Pendulum for the SHAMEFUL thread and it's totally way up itself
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I got just the opposite impression. I mean, Eco obviously did his research, but overall Pendulum is playful, an old-fashioned erudite prank like the Anatomy of Melancholy or something.
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smug n stuff posted:I read The Trial for the first time and it rules, now I want to read more Kafka. I've just read that and Metamorphosis, what would you consider essential by him? Or should I just read it all? Just get the complete short stories, after that you'll only have two novels left (unless you REALLY care about reading letters he wrote to other people)
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smug n stuff posted:I read The Trial for the first time and it rules, now I want to read more Kafka. I've just read that and Metamorphosis, what would you consider essential by him? Or should I just read it all? Tim Burns Effect posted:Just get the complete short stories, after that you'll only have two novels left (unless you REALLY care about reading letters he wrote to other people) Don't forget this.
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drat now we just need a volume of all the ad copy Vonnegut wrote for GE
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Samovar posted:Would Eco's fiction be considered serious fiction? I liked In the Name of the Rose, but found Foucalt's Pendulum too... up itself. Currently reading Baudolino. Eco is good because he's way up himself Baudolino is also good but I feel only for medievalists
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whats it mean for a book written by an academic smart man to be 'up itself'
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at the date posted:I got just the opposite impression. I mean, Eco obviously did his research, but overall Pendulum is playful, an old-fashioned erudite prank like the Anatomy of Melancholy or something. Well yeah, but there comes a time where you have to end a joke. .
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Samovar posted:Well yeah, but there comes a time where you have to end a joke. wrong-o
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pendulum good, eco good. i will not brook disagreement on this point
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Tree Goat posted:pendulum good, eco good. i will not brook disagreement on this point There needs to be healthy disagreement lest this become an eco chamber
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Samovar posted:Well yeah, but there comes a time where you have to end a joke.. Mel Mudkiper posted:There needs to be healthy disagreement lest this become an eco chamber
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Didn't you make this same joke when you started the Eco pun derail earlier in this thread? I guess there must be an eco in here
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Pendulum is extremely good because I myself am a self-righteous globetrotting rear end in a top hat
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