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Kamis, Nopember 19th, 2009

I’ve been reading a number of so-called “cult books” lately– William Gaddis’s The Recognitions, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and John Crowley’s Little, Big. But I’m not really sure what a “cult book” might be. It got me to thinking, … David Foster Wallace’s Girl with Curious Hair, a book literally pressed on me my freshman year by a friend who simply could not believe I had never read Wallace . To some embarrassment, I suppose, Irvine Welsh. Thomas Pynchon. …
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Rabu, Nopember 18th, 2009

David Foster Wallace apparently always marked papers with four colours (got that from: Kelly Writers House ‘Remembering DFW’ audio, 2008). Harsh criticism, but coming from someone who had invested a lot of time in it and hoped it would ….. “ William James once argued that every philosophic system sets out to conceal, first of all, the philosopher’s own temperament…This creates, as James puts it, ‘A certain insincerity in our philosophic discussions: The potentest of all …
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