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>Ah yes, the Dalkey Archive. A fine publisher.

>> No.12345843
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>>12345824
>Indeed, they've played a critical role in renewing interest in the Uzbekistani avant-garde, worthy heirs that they are to the legacy of Joyce and Eliot, if I may say so myself.

>> No.12345848

>>12345824
He played pretty well against Magnus. Better luck next time.

>> No.12345851

>>12345848
Yeah, Magnus said he was his toughest challenger thus far.

>> No.12345865

Wear pajamas.
Drink hot chocolate.
Talk about postmodern literature.

>> No.12346257

>>12345824
what is it about pop culture that brings out the absolute worse in people?

>> No.12346272

>>12345824
Fuck you anyone who reprints Gaddis is based

>> No.12346276

>>12345824
we all sort of envy them, don't we?
They seem to have that one quality we ourselves find lacking. Dignity. Respect. Authority. Pride.

>> No.12346296

>>12346276
Its like the one thing you want, more than anything else, is to make them look foolish. They surround themselves with fools in an effort not to look foolish, its there, plain as day, but somehow, your the one who envies them

>> No.12346312

>>12346296
I can not think of anything more embarrassing than to parade around your ignorance, surround yourself with people too scared to disagree with you, and think to yourself, "I have power."

>> No.12346327

>>12346312
Yet they are the ones who get their face printed on the dollar bill. They sublimate their identities into the culture they have created.

>> No.12346332

>>12346327
You stop being who are, and start being who others want you to be.

>> No.12346355

>>12346332
the thing is, when they actually meet the better man, the man they wanted to be, they recoil in contempt.

>> No.12346365

>>12346355
what you have in your mind is an image, an image of what others imagine its like to be the person they want to be. But that's not actually who that man IS.

>> No.12346373
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>>12346276
how can you envy anyone in a world as manipulated as this one? Envy is the endpoint of a game which sees you lose to hypocrisy. Always. Unless it is unknown or animal, it has no sinc to language, nothing matches beyond categories and therefore blah, blah, blah.
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Dignity can be commanded of me by earned respect. Authority has no respect beyond the bullseye.

>> No.12346386

>>12345843
i can't stand looking at this specimen. i feel bad for everyone he inflicts himself upon.

>> No.12346389

>>12346365
When they think of a strong man, they tell themselves they mean a 'moral' man, but what they really want is a savage. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

>> No.12346408

>>12346389
And i revel in it when I write. I revel in being the savage. I can imagine myself committing a never ending series of escalating depravities in order to force the world into making some kind of sense.

Because cruelty offends me. It offends my sense of order about the universe.

>> No.12346437

ah yes, atlas press

>> No.12346451

>>12346408
When you think about the absurdity of modern life, its cruelty, its hubris, then doesn't it seem tempting, even a little bit, to commit one mild little atrocity to put everything back into perspective?

To have that teenager who won't turn down his music dragged out and beaten in the streets? To watch that pedophile priest be dragged out into the desert and burned alive? To restore some semblance of order, a return to compassion, and all it takes is one, tiny, little atrocity, one act so ferocious that it shocks the senses back into to some semblance of normalcy?

>> No.12346474

>>12346451
Until those acts themselves become a vice. And every atrocity is worse than the last. Until soon you are committing worse crimes than your victims could have ever imagined. Until that last little thread slips away, and you become everything you ever despised, everything you ever hated, and there's nothing left but a hollowed out shell an urn containing the ashes of your soul.

knowing when to let go, and knowing when to stop. thats the morality tale. thats the lie.

>> No.12346488

>>12346474
and we listen to it over, and over, and over again, begging for release, until one day it seems all too real, and we can hear the beast following our footsteps, we can hear the sirens song of violence and hubris and pain and release, and the damn breaks, and it all breaks loose.

>> No.12346506

>>12345848
kek

>> No.12346580

>>12346488
Kristallnacht

>> No.12346609

>>12345824
I don't think this thread is going to make NYRB feel less bullied OPsama. They may get jelly and pull DA's hair on Twitter °o°

>> No.12346679

>>12346474
So you get why tech is evil then I guess. And that animals are tech. And that tech is nothing as it always has, for it merely onions.

>> No.12346970

>>12346276
That is more than one quality.