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is infinite jest closer to harry potter or west wing in terms of its political subtext
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Oct 7, 2020 15:48
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my infinite jest take is I keep thinking its written by Pynchon
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Oct 7, 2020 15:51
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StashAugustine posted:my infinite jest take is I keep thinking its written by Pynchon a whole genre of contemporary US lit is just dudes trying to be pynchon
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Oct 7, 2020 15:53
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who is the most unreadable classic author of the english canon joyce or pynchon
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Oct 7, 2020 16:02
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Some Guy TT posted:who is the most unreadable classic author of the english canon joyce or pynchon Joyce. Except for his fart fetish letters.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:07
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i watched this movie called "The Car: Road to Revenge" with the guy who played young Adama from BSG and I always wonder, how do movies like this get made? are they just a money laundering thing? are they someone's pet project? i can't even find a budget for the fuckin thing anywhere, but I guess it was a syfy original
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Oct 7, 2020 16:09
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“I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair.“ ME AT 39: eesh, what editor let you start with this messy attempt at flash? ME AT 18: I MUST CREATE AN ANGELFIRE PAGE IN HONOR OF THIS GREAT MAN!
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Oct 7, 2020 16:09
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Some Guy TT posted:who is the most unreadable classic author of the english canon joyce or pynchon i think pynchon is generally good and funny and find ulysses genuinely unreadable, though joyce's love letters are hilarious. real answer is probably ayn rand
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Oct 7, 2020 16:09
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Some Guy TT posted:is infinite jest closer to harry potter or west wing in terms of its political subtext nowhere close to either really
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Oct 7, 2020 16:14
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Some Guy TT posted:who is the most unreadable classic author of the english canon joyce or pynchon have you ever thumbed through finnegan’s wake?
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Oct 7, 2020 16:15
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double negative posted:i think pynchon is generally good and funny and find ulysses genuinely unreadable, though joyce's love letters are hilarious I had a teacher sophomore year of high school that said Finnegans Wake was the hardest book he had ever attempted to understand, so I was all like “Challenge accepted. Once I master this book I will become the new History & Thought of Western Civilizations teacher, adding my predecessor’s women and holdings to my own,” so I used a week’s worth of lunch money to have the local bookstore special order a copy for me. Never made it more than ten pages in. Gave it to a friend as a going away gift when they went to college. No clue what it was about, though I think it had something to do with the Irish.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:17
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Someone later told me there’s a storm on the first page.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:18
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Alhazred posted:I prefer Preacher because it ends with the main character learning that getting in touch with his feelings is good and trying to be a badass is bad. Granted, Preacher dips in-and-out of Ennis's issues (let's make fun of this pervert! let's spend a few issues with my dad in 'Nam!), where The Boys dives wholeheartedly in.
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Oct 7, 2020 16:19
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one time i tried to read gravitys rainbow but my eyes just kept gliding over the words without absorbing a single thing, and after about the 10th time I reached the end of the page without remembering anything I read, I decided to just do other stuff
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Oct 7, 2020 17:23
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https://twitter.com/madisonbrek/status/1313599141025583104
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Oct 7, 2020 17:29
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double negative posted:real answer is probably ayn rand this is the winner. the loving john galt speech goes on for like 50 pages of just rambling bullshit
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Oct 7, 2020 17:36
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Some Guy TT posted:who is the most unreadable classic author of the english canon joyce or pynchon even as someone who enjoyed joyce: joyce by a mile pynchon also has much more variance in how convoluted he is from passage to passage so even if you dont have the energy to have a headache that day you can plough through with disinterest for a few pages then come back to something more intelligible that is just as likely to leave you sobbing or laughing or tossing the book across the room as the most clusterfuck parts whereas the only variance in how unreadable joyce is is a monotonically increasing line from the start of his career until the end but really its: double negative posted:ayn rand id much rather struggle through unreadably dense or esoteric or even incessantly winking wankery like the most self-indulgent parts of joyce than quickly read through a 50 page version of a youtube rant from a "small business entrepreneur" inside a car in a starbucks parking lot
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Oct 7, 2020 18:11
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gravity's rainbow has very little coherent narrative but it's quite readable on a page-by-page basis and i loved it william gaddis was a lot tougher for me
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Oct 7, 2020 18:19
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Pynchon thinks Hideo Kojima is god so he's clearly onto something
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Oct 7, 2020 19:30
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Pynchon thinks Hideo Kojima is god so he's clearly onto something What?
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Oct 7, 2020 20:01
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a few weeks(? months?) ago itt i said dua lipa had put out the pop album of the year so far i am writing to say this statement was incorrect, in fact jessie ware has i regret the error
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Oct 7, 2020 20:16
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whose canon is ayn rand part of tho?
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Oct 7, 2020 22:45
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We rented Save Yourselves! and it wasn’t bad. Had a lot of the cast from Search Party and treads a bit on a similar conceit (out of touch New York 30 somethings butting up against realty), so if that annoys you, this may still annoy you. Basically, a device addicted Brooklyn couple take a break from the internet at a remote cabin, completely miss an alien invasion and are forced to assess their life skills on a fundamental level. Meaning-wise, it declares that we can only save ourselves as a species by putting personal safety and gain aside to save each other, which is laudable, but the ending, which to my mind indicates there’s a third alien race picking best examples of various races, which they determine by pitting them against the race they just relocated, then relocating those survivors to a different planet to begin it all over again mixed millennial bleakness with notions of secular Rapture. Not sure how I feel about that bit, but it was entertaining throughout and the leads are good.
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Oct 7, 2020 23:35
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Oct 8, 2020 01:35
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So any thoughts on The Good Lord Bird so far? I'm enjoying it quite a bit, almost obscenely. Some folks on a facebook lefty group were complaining that they felt it made him look insane but when you're the only moral person in a demon nation of course you're gonna look insane. The quirks all seem to speak for his character, rather than against it.
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Oct 8, 2020 02:45
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Does it make frederick douglass look like a sincere believer in decorum like the trailer was implying
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Oct 8, 2020 06:02
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They haven't gotten to Frederick Douglass yet. I think that happens next episode.
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Oct 8, 2020 10:11
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So I just learned that JRR Tolkein was an anarcho-monarchist
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Oct 8, 2020 10:50
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Kings arise naturally from nature. It is known.
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Oct 8, 2020 11:11
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http://newlevellers.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-deep-politics-of-jared-letos-cult.html
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Some Guy TT posted:http://newlevellers.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-deep-politics-of-jared-letos-cult.html it's unclear who writes what on that blog, but the most recent article has this incredible sentence: quote:Any of us who have questioned the Covid narrative have had to put up with an inordinate amount of hectoring, name calling, ridicule, and ostracism. I remember when I signed on the artist appeal as part of the Milosevic Defense Committee, and the abuse and anger I faced whenever this topic came up.
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Oct 8, 2020 14:04
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Some Guy TT posted:Does it make frederick douglass look like a sincere believer in decorum like the trailer was implying Curious about this too since the trailer always has Douglass going all  whenever Brown shows up. But obviously they had a longstanding acquaintance and even if Douglass thought people around Brown were unreliable, he was confident enough about Brown himself that he brought recruits like Shields Green to join up with him. Douglass couldn't go along with the Harpers Ferry raid because hitting a federal armory understandably looked like a suicide mission, but other than strategic disagreements like that he was very much in Brown's corner.
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Oct 8, 2020 14:18
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tired: trump faked his positive covid19 test wired: everyones faking all the positive covid19 tests
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Oct 8, 2020 14:22
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Oct 8, 2020 21:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMiq7eg91M hmmm extremely high profile voice cast (even if trailer dialogue is eh), but this looks like a far, far, far more direct translation than The Boys or other Amazon initiatives (tbf the source material is massively better than The Boys)
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Oct 8, 2020 22:18
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https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1314221303432466432 broke: mulan is bad because its cultural appropriation woke: mulan is good because it spotlights women in the military
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Oct 9, 2020 03:37
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vyelkin posted:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/07/netflix-indicted-by-texas-grand-jury-over-lewd-visual-material-in-cuties a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if requested of the ag, this is just a republican pr stunt possibly to drum up support for repealing section 230; "see how uncontrollable tech is!"
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Oct 9, 2020 03:47
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season finale of the boys is out if you were waiting to binge the series there are gonna be a lot of weird aoc memes
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Oct 9, 2020 03:55
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its good
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Bro Dad posted:season finale of the boys is out if you were waiting to binge the series lol she’s controlled opposition Just like in real life
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