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a miracle of a phrase (or two)
or, Why I Don’t Write Ivan Turgenev, Rudin: “Everything is drenched in poetry—everything breathes beauty and vitality.” (Rudin) p. 77 Ivan Turgenev John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire: “[He] was a young man who imagined he could do anything he … Continue reading
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Tagged coupland, delany, delillo, george elliot, john irving, myla goldberg, potok, salinger, turgenev, woolf
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Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany, 1974 “Everybody’s somebody’s fetish.” p. 324 This is one of the most bizarre, disturbing, beautiful, dense and fascinating novels I’ve ever read. I want to recommend it to everyone; however, I have to contain myself because … Continue reading
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Tagged david foster wallace, david lynch, delany, eliot, william gibson
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cityscope: a compilation of obsessions
mini-book/zine i made for my friends, december 2006 ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ******
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, language, literature, los angeles, movies/photography, music, philosophy/religion
Tagged albert speer, california, chatham, david markson, debord, delany, dictionary, didion, eliot, eternal return, fante, flowers, gaiman, hollywood, iggy pop, kundera, library, nathanael west, o'keeffe, palimpsest, park, plato, public transit, rilke, robert frost, ruins, shelley, watergate, west los angeles, woodward, woolf, yogi berra
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