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I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
—Richard Serra
—Richard Serra
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Gawdzilla Sama
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Gormenghast.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
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Cosmic Bandito. Trust me on this. You won't regret reading it. I think Feck, most of all, would appreciate it...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Where's Ashton with his Dullest Book Ever (TM) ?
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Perfume - odd but amazing!
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I read the first one, 'Titus Groan', and loved it because it was so different to anything else I've ever read. (mind you, I haven't read nearly as many books as I would have liked to). I keep intending to get the others at some point.Gawdzilla wrote:Gormenghast.
[Disclaimer - if this is comes across like I think I know what I'm talking about, I want to make it clear that I don't. I'm just trying to get my thoughts down]
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That's a great novel...I read it in the late '80s and I still remember having been oddly moved by it.Rum wrote:Perfume - odd but amazing!
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Small Engines and Basic Agricultural Mechanics. I have the 1926 or '28 edition (can't quite make out the type) and it's one of the oddest, and most informative reads ever. Likely the weirdest thing is that a small engine in the context of this book is pretty much anything not powered by steam, although I think that's likely a hold-over from earlier editions. It has a complete chapter about connecting wood and steel components, including the properties and suitabilities of various types of wood. It urges you to use a blacksmith instead of ferrier to make pistons for you, since ferriers are really only good at making horse shoes, and recommends that you buy piston rings from a reputable manufacturer.
If you really want a little bit of technological displacement, give this book a shot. It's kind of like Steam Punk meets James Herriot.
If you really want a little bit of technological displacement, give this book a shot. It's kind of like Steam Punk meets James Herriot.
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House of Leaves.
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This was one of the weirder (but bloody good) novels I've read
http://www.amazon.com/Pornographers-Poe ... 1932360239
http://www.amazon.com/Pornographers-Poe ... 1932360239
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Here's a bizarre book I own (though this is not my copy):
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"Jonathon Livingstone Seagull"...
"In watermelon sugar"
"In watermelon sugar"
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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Mephistopheles wrote:House of Leaves.
(the color, of course. "House" always in blue.)
I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
—Richard Serra
—Richard Serra
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You just had to torment me didn't you BellaBella Fortuna wrote:Here's a bizarre book I own (though this is not my copy):
Give me the wine , I don't need the bread
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Sombrero Fallout was good too.JimC wrote:"In watermelon sugar"
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