Reading this after V is very interesting - much more of a "chill" experience while still getting to some very core "mortal coil" subject matter. I found the recent pieces with the interactions between Mason and his father touching.
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read The machinic unconscious by Félix Guattari (Semiotext(e) foreign agents series)
The machinic unconscious by Félix Guattari (Semiotext(e) foreign agents series)
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Old rendering plant by Wolfgang Hilbig
It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it …
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read This is where you belong by Melody Warnick
This is where you belong by Melody Warnick
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rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino
The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein
The difference between life and literature; the good intentions of holiday reading; the avante-garde; the fate of the novel; the …
rooneymcnibnug quoted Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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"Hey? Genders? Very well,- of Genders they have three,- Male, Female, and the Third Sex no one talks about,- Dead. What, then, you may be curious to know, are the emotional relations between Male and Dead, Female and Dead, Dead and Dead? Eh? Just so. What of love tri- angles? Do they automatically become Quadrilaterals? With Death no longer in as simple a way parting us, no longer the Barrier nor Sanction that it was, what becomes of Marriage Vows,- how must we redefine Being Faithful...?" By which he means (so the Revd, who was there in but a representational sense, ghostly as an imperfect narrative to be told in futurity, would have guess'd) that Rebekah's visits at St. Helena, if sexual, were profoundly like nothing he knew,- whilst she assum'd that he well understood her obligations among the Dead, and would respond ever as she wish'd. Yet how would he? being allow'd no access to any of those mil- lion'd dramas among the Dead. They were like the Stars to him,- unable to project himself among their enigmatic Gatherings, he could but observe thro' a mediating Instrument. The many-Lens'd Rebekah.”
— Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (Page 195)
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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The most romantic thing you can do to someone is save them from a massive wheel of cheese flattening you from higher grounds.
rooneymcnibnug wants to read Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read Contra el Leviatán y contra su historia by Fredy Perlman
Contra el Leviatán y contra su historia by Fredy Perlman
“La muerte siempre está del lado de las máquinas.” Con una mirada lúcida y subversiva, Fredy Perlman analiza el conjunto …