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Picked up The Good Conscience at Half Price today, knowing next to nothing about Fuentes but extremely impressed by what I skimmed of it. If this is one of his minor works, I've been a goddamn idiot not reading his major ones.
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Aug 10, 2018 04:52
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Picked up The Good Conscience at Half Price today, knowing next to nothing about Fuentes but extremely impressed by what I skimmed of it. If this is one of his minor works, I've been a goddamn idiot not reading his major ones. Terra nostra is loving
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Aug 10, 2018 04:57
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Picked up The Good Conscience at Half Price today, knowing next to nothing about Fuentes but extremely impressed by what I skimmed of it. If this is one of his minor works, I've been a goddamn idiot not reading his major ones. He's cool, Christopher Unborn is a really wild madcap take on Tristram Shandy and other books like that, and I also enjoyed A Change of Skin.
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Aug 10, 2018 05:52
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I actually enjoyed (the second part of) the good conscience considerably more than the death of artemio cruz. Haven't read his other stuff tho
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Aug 10, 2018 11:10
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It's disappointing that the occult/esoterica thread is in archives because i just bought a copy of the secret teachings of all ages and i'm going to learn all of the secret teachings and become a powerful occult magick man.
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Aug 10, 2018 12:36
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A human heart posted:It's disappointing that the occult/esoterica thread is in archives because i just bought a copy of the secret teachings of all ages and i'm going to learn all of the secret teachings and become a powerful occult magick man. i made that thread so what up, thats the first esoterica i read i never got around to updating it with postmodern/chaos magic
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Aug 10, 2018 12:58
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Picked up The Good Conscience at Half Price today, knowing next to nothing about Fuentes but extremely impressed by what I skimmed of it. If this is one of his minor works, I've been a goddamn idiot not reading his major ones. thehoodie posted:Terra nostra is loving Yeah, surprised Terra Nostra isn't more popular in this thread. It appeals to a lot of people's tastes in literature as a crushing juggernaut of ideas. I am more a fan of The Death of Artemio Cruz though
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Aug 10, 2018 14:57
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ulvir posted:satantango is really frigging good it really is and Laszlo K is my dude i’m reading Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins and it’s cool since drought and fire is life now.
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Aug 10, 2018 15:27
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A human heart posted:It's disappointing that the occult/esoterica thread is in archives because i just bought a copy of the secret teachings of all ages and i'm going to learn all of the secret teachings and become a powerful occult magick man. Ganbatte
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Aug 10, 2018 15:28
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:i never got around to updating it with postmodern/chaos magic just post about it here. jacking off onto sigils is not that far removed from jacking off onto a copy of sun and steel jagstag fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 11, 2018 |
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Aug 11, 2018 17:35
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Posting this here since Nabokov's lectures aren't BotM anymore: i was just searching to see if the text of the Kafka lecture was online so i could send it to a friend and lo and behold, someone decided to film that lecture with Christopher Plummer playing Nabokov. I have no idea what compelled anyone to make this but i'm glad they did: https://vimeo.com/87523667
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Aug 11, 2018 20:22
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Tim Burns Effect posted:Posting this here since Nabokov's lectures aren't BotM anymore: i was just searching to see if the text of the Kafka lecture was online so i could send it to a friend and lo and behold, someone decided to film that lecture with Christopher Plummer playing Nabokov. I have no idea what compelled anyone to make this but i'm glad they did:  Twist my arm, why doncha.
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Aug 11, 2018 21:24
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Tim Burns Effect posted:Posting this here since Nabokov's lectures aren't BotM anymore: i was just searching to see if the text of the Kafka lecture was online so i could send it to a friend and lo and behold, someone decided to film that lecture with Christopher Plummer playing Nabokov. I have no idea what compelled anyone to make this but i'm glad they did: hell yes
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Aug 12, 2018 01:27
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Runaway Horses was a drat good book, and boy do I have no idea what books 3 and 4 could involve. Also Magda Szabó is real good. Reading Katalin Street and it reminds me of To the Lighthouse a lot. Hungary has some drat good authors. Laszlo K, Szabo, Esterházy, Szerb, Krúdy, Márai. Any others people recommend?
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Aug 12, 2018 04:57
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vs naipaul dead, so what
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Aug 12, 2018 07:57
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thehoodie posted:Runaway Horses was a drat good book, and boy do I have no idea what books 3 and 4 could involve. Peter Nadas sounds pretty cool and writes really long books but I haven't actually read him so take this recommendation with a big ol grain of salt
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Aug 12, 2018 11:10
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And speaking of drat good books, I just finished A Hundred Years of Solitude. It was beautiful, sad and even kind of funny at times. Highly recommended. It was also my first time reading magical realism and it was surprising how well that stuff blended in.
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Aug 12, 2018 11:32
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thehoodie posted:Runaway Horses was a drat good book, and boy do I have no idea what books 3 and 4 could involve. Jeno Rejto, or P. Howard, The Hungarian Wodehouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%C5%91_Rejt%C5%91
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Aug 12, 2018 13:32
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thehoodie posted:Runaway Horses was a drat good book, and boy do I have no idea what books 3 and 4 could involve. For the full experience, I recommend completing the Sea of Fertility cycle while your relationship crumbles into worsening emotional abuse. Now that was a fun summer.  A lot of Temple of Dawn went over my head, partly for the above reason, but also because it goes heavily into the history of Buddhism and I didn't have an historical reference point. It's definitely a mindfuck shift after Runaway Horses. You can tell in Decay of the Angel that he was rushing things, and it's surreal reading something set in the very near future when he knew he would be dead, but it helps achieve the intended effect. It's not the World's Longest Suicide Note, exactly, but it does convey the ultimate conclusion of Mishima's worldview. :feelsbadman:
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Aug 12, 2018 15:49
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A human heart posted:Peter Nadas sounds pretty cool and writes really long books but I haven't actually read him so take this recommendation with a big ol grain of salt How do you feel about frequent references to men wearing womens panties and people itching their taint and smelling it
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Aug 12, 2018 18:16
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Tree Goat posted:vs naipaul dead, so what mr bis, was
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Aug 12, 2018 19:20
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Mel Mudkiper posted:How do you feel about frequent references to men wearing womens panties and people itching their taint and smelling it its my life, and it's now or never. and this scent won't last forever.
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Aug 12, 2018 19:42
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Safety Biscuits posted:mr bis, was gently caress
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Aug 12, 2018 20:03
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My vs naipaul trivia fact is that the James bond theme was originally written for a musical version of a house for mr biswas
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After The War posted:For the full experience, I recommend completing the Sea of Fertility cycle while your relationship crumbles into worsening emotional abuse. Now that was a fun summer. I liked Decay of the Angel the most, something about Toru's introduction as a lighthouse keeper looking at the sea (descriptions of the sea tend to be cliched, but in Mishima they aren't), and how he's both the culmination and a parody of Mishima's own aesthetic ideals .
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Aug 12, 2018 20:34
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Tree Goat posted:vs naipaul dead, so what I’ve been meaning to read Naipaul for the better part of a decade but somehow never actually have. What’s the best place to start with his work?
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Aug 12, 2018 21:09
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Normal Adult Human posted:its my life, and it's now or never. and this scent won't last forever.
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Aug 12, 2018 21:18
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I’ve been meaning to read Naipaul for the better part of a decade but somehow never actually have. What’s the best place to start with his work? Just get the house of Mr Biswas, it's really good, well written literature. nothing too flashy, but his scenes and characters are always a pleasure to read His Half a Life was one of the books that brought me back to reading fiction, but A House for Mr Biswas is undeniably the better book
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Aug 12, 2018 22:09
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Normal Adult Human posted:its my life, and it's now or never. and this scent won't last forever. lmao gently caress you lol
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Aug 12, 2018 22:14
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Mel Mudkiper posted:How do you feel about frequent references to men wearing womens panties and people itching their taint and smelling it If a central European man is making those then he's probably cool
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Aug 13, 2018 01:01
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A human heart posted:If a central European man is making those then he's probably cool I can be Czech for you 
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Aug 13, 2018 02:01
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is the golem and the jinni real literature or just another jewish psyop (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 13, 2018 21:10
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Whoever that is can oval office off, Brighton owns.
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My computer broke so I read two books in a few days to pass the time. The first was Umberto Ecos Baudolino. The first Eco I’ve ever read. It was great, hilarious how Baudolino rationalizes the religious forgeries and the justifications he comes up with so Frederick can assert his authority without directly conflicting with the Pope and honorably retreat from battles. I expected the writing style to change when the characters head off the map and into Prester Johns kingdom but descriptions stay as grounded as before. It doesn’t feel like a phantasmagoric realm but rather just that some characters are visiting a genre fantasy world for a bit before finding their way back into history. But instead of dwarves and elves you’ve got one footed creatures and flying ears. The other book was Gene Wolfe’s Peace. It’s the only Wolfe book that appears to be mainstream literary fiction about an aging man recalling anecdotes about his life. But as per Wolfe, the narrator is probably lying and might be dead, or is multiple people, or can travel through time, or any number of other interpretations. I liked reading it straight as a bunch of charming if truncated anecdotes but there’s definitely some horrific subtext and we never discover exactly how Weer’s aunt died or how Weer became a company president or why many other events happen. Anyway they were two good books about two great liars.
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Ccs posted:The first was Umberto Ecos Baudolino. The first Eco I’ve ever read. You'll really really like Name of the Rose
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Aug 14, 2018 16:10
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They serve Chivas in Brighton and all other whiskeys are banned.
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English coastal settlements are hell.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:English coastal settlements are hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqYqyHBTZjg
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