February 2012
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“Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable...”
– Hermann Hesse, Gertrude. 1910
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Roberto Bolaño on Literature, Kafka and the Abyss
Which authors would you number among your precursors? Borges? Cortázar? Nicanor Parra? Neruda? Kafka? In Tres you write: “I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans were fighting to the death. From a wrought-iron seat in Central Park, Kafka was watching the world burn.” “I never liked Neruda. At any rate, I would...
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“I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherstlast summer. I...”
– David Foster Wallace, in an interview with William R. Katovsky, that appeared in Arrival.
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“It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and...”
– David Foster Wallace
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Make You Cry Music
He use to only cry while watching Field of Dreams. The scene where his dead father comes alive on the baseball diamond to play catch with his son, got him every time. He’s seen the movie half a dozen times, he knows the scene’s coming, he hears the ‘make you cry music’ through the speakers. Even knowing all of this, he’s crying like he’s just lost his cat. ...
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“It is only in the mysterious equations of love, that any logical reasons can be...”
– John Nash
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Random Thought
Sometimes I think Roberto Bolaño is the Tupac Shakur of literature. Not because Bolaño was a Mad MC, but because of how many books, have come out after his death. Remember the years after Tupac died? It seemed like there was a new album of previous unreleased tracks every few months.
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