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from “seven-year-old poets” by arthur rimbaud

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— The Other, Thomas Tryon

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The only person I remotely fuck with in house of leaves is Tom. Yeah I feel for some of them, Mainly Karen. But Tom’s the only one who’s ever ever ever ever getting invited over .

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The guy who translated my arthur rimbaud was like Rimbaud was meee and I had to separate myself from him in order to actually translate his work but I saw myself in him so much it was a years-long, very difficult process. And I was reading his introduction like look at this jackoff. And then I read the letters and Rimbaud is me

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‘‘Doesn’t that irk you a little, Mr. Monster? I’ve been shitting in your corner. I’ve been pissing on your walls.’’

—Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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If I was reading another book this wouldn’t necessarily matter but you can get physically too high to read house of leaves

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Who to rent myself out to? What beast should I adore? What sacred image is being attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lie must I maintain? — What blood shall I trample?

Arthur Rimbaud, trans. by Mark Polizzotti, from A Season in Hell: “Bad Blood”

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Going eighth for eighth back and forth with house of leaves and the paul schmidt translation/arrangement of the complete works of arthur rimbaud and I feel like someone who gets paid 300k a year to select wine and cheese pairings. Genius coupling right there

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But it’s not a flop I’m sorry I said that. The only true flop is not reading anything all month

February might be a flop month tbh I only finished 1 book and am nowhere near finishing the 3 I’m reading rn

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February might be a flop month tbh I only finished 1 book and am nowhere near finishing the 3 I’m reading rn

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Really digging how Zampanó will be like This essay says Navidson’s love for Karen like hers for him is out of fear only expressed to everything but his spouse. And this one says Navidson was in a pathetic freudian battle with homosexual urges. Either way, their children are quite literally slipping out of the narrative and they barely notice it happening.

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Fucking crazy how house of leaves is actually more than good enough to warrant all the work it takes to read

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january reads

got some real killers this month. the only book that wasn’t a 5 star for me was Death in a Prairie House, which was still really interesting and completely worthwhile. I genuinely believe everyone alive in this ubermodern age should read Debord. I cannot emphasise how much he understood and correctly addressed every aspect of labour and economy under global capitalism. reading Society of the Spectacle is just a continuous reel of thinking, he’s putting words to exactly how this is. He’s describing exactly how this feels. He’s speaking these conditions we all implicitly experience without the language to realise. the short story collection was the first piece I’ve read by Camus and I was incredibly impressed. I Wished is Cooper at his absolute barest and most desperately broken open.

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— j.g. ballard’s notes on “YOU ME AND THE CONTINUUM”, the Atrocity Exhibition

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Bastard out of Carolina AND james Baldwin Another Country acquired at the goodwill yesterday for a grand total of 6$

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‘Now that sex is becoming more and more a conceptual act, an intellectualisation divorced from affect and physiology alike, one has to bear in mind the positive merits of the sexual perversions.’ —j.g. ballard, the atrocity exhibition

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He’s just saying the same shit all time but I love him