some posts do slip thru the cracks first time around you know
and there's also that new generation of netphorians (ovary) who may have missed it for other reasons entirely! Fun! Nice! Life! Youths! Beautiful! I'm all for it |
are you quoting from "fuckin in the bushes" off the seminal oasis album, "standing on the shoulder (sic) of giants"?
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My Book Review
......of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf if your being entertained by a novel requires an active and thrilling plot, this is probably not the best choice for you on a macro level, this to me read as a study on the nature of thought, explored through a minor cast of characters — its turbulent, inexplicable manner, how easily it can be lulled into reverie or lured down infinite pathways, its inexorable link to memory and sensation, its absolute solitude, and so on. most writing on the book tends to i n c l u d e the phrase "stream of consciousness." well, yeah. most of the story, or “content” (perhaps a better word) consists of the characters’ immense and endlessly cascading inner worlds. setting, personalities, and relationships are all developed through our witnessing of interiority, as it pounces from one character’s mind to the next. my favorite bit was the middle and shortest of the three sections "time passes," wherein woolf departs from the day-to-day narrative and veers into a kind of time-warpy and at times hypothetical realm full of poignant, untethered lyricism (exploited to its fullest in her later novel, The Waves, one of my favorite books of all time). SO JUST TO SUM UP: slow and even dull in its plotline, but rich and pretty frikkin astounding in its exploration of the nature of our minds, life, art, human relations, memory, time, all as pondered through the consciousness of a few fictional people. oh yeah and also some stuff about power dynamics between the sexes |
not to mention a sick cover:
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ok, well i had this in my notes but accidentally omitted it; please work it in somewhere tasteful:
being separate, being embodied, the vast gulfs between us, the mystery of the minds of others, of perception |
now off to wikipedia (finally!) to see if i was right
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you were right
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maybe this board should all read anna karinina together.
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or... MADAME OVARY
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"How come they call you Billy instead of William?"
"Business reasons," said Billy. That was true. His father-in-law, who owned the Ilium School of Optometry, who had set Billy up in practice, was a genius in his field. He told Billy to encourage people to call him Billy—because it would stick in their memories. It would also make him seem slightly magical, since there weren't any other grown Billys around. It also compelled people to think of him as a friend right away. |
have you read cat's cradle? if not you should read cat's cradle. everyone should read cat's cradle. |
I have and agree.
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Saw Laura Jane Grace play last night. Bought her book at the merch booth and have been devouring it since. :cry:
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I have no idea why my last post has an angry emoticon, prolly cuz my phone is a pos
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ayn rand SUCKS
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So no one's started anything new lately huh?
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I'm on book 4 of the nightrunners series 🙃
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I'm reading James Baldwin's first book, Go Tell It On the Mountain.
It's definitely very interesting reading a book that has a few parallels to your own life - attraction to the same gender, hardcore religious environs while resenting the faithful etc. |
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now im reading turalyon’s dad’s pheremonal signature
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but yeah i was drunk for the whole ayn rand conversation. but i stand by 50% of what i said.
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