If that's not the hallmark of a book worth reading, I don't know what is.

Ezra Pound on Finnegans Wake (which he called 'Joyce in Regress'): ‘Nothing so far as I can make out, nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp, can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization.’

There’s nothing quite like the joy I feel when my Canadian partner W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List lapses into surprise bogan Australian, mid-sentence

Vollmann has this uncanny knack for lulling me in a drowsy state and then hitting me with an unexpected moment of lucid profundity and/or (preferably and) utter revulsion.

My nervous system can't keep up with this sympathetic-parasympathetic two-step.

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Cannot wait!!!

I'm tempted to suggest 'The Books of Jacob', so they can examine (with a degree of distance) how secular extremist beliefs develop.

We'd probably witness a lot less violent partisanship...

The last time I saw so much excitement about a big, complex novel was when Pynchon's Against the Day was going to be published. This time, it's a work in translation, which makes me double-happy.

I can weigh in the former, and wholeheartedly agree!

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'Lost in the vertigo of the ideal...'

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1976 (MHS) #Beksinski #PolishMastersofArt

As if I wasn't excited enough

FACT: This tattoo was the inspiration behind Fuentes writing Romulus and Remus into The Next World sequence.

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Two and a half hours of Beckett discussion. God bless those who still commit to long-form content.

Love your work Chris. ⁦leafbyleaf⁩ youtu.be/teB1U6i6YFg

Goddamn, looks like I nabbed it just in time. Latest listing on ABEBooks...

Terra Nostra, The New World, The Seventh Day:

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Fuentes has an axe to grind, and it can be found halfway down page 607:

'History is the secular account of ransom.'

I suspect his guiding motivation to unify a cultural diaspora can be read in that line alone.

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