"Be petty enough and the world may make you a Prince. The cheat, not the meek, has inherited the earth."
—William H. Gass
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—William H. Gass
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March 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Be petty enough and the world may make you a Prince. The cheat, not the meek, has inherited the earth."
—William H. Gass
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—William H. Gass
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MEPHISTOPHELES (leiser): Was gibt es denn?
WAGNER (leiser): Es wird ein Mensch gemacht.
-Goethe, Faust II
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WAGNER (leiser): Es wird ein Mensch gemacht.
-Goethe, Faust II
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April 12, 2024 at 10:10 AM
MEPHISTOPHELES (leiser): Was gibt es denn?
WAGNER (leiser): Es wird ein Mensch gemacht.
-Goethe, Faust II
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WAGNER (leiser): Es wird ein Mensch gemacht.
-Goethe, Faust II
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-Damn it, it was his soul, Otto said defiantly, —and he sold it to the devil.
—No. It was not his to dispose of. We belong to our souls, not our souls to us.
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—No. It was not his to dispose of. We belong to our souls, not our souls to us.
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May 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
-Damn it, it was his soul, Otto said defiantly, —and he sold it to the devil.
—No. It was not his to dispose of. We belong to our souls, not our souls to us.
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—No. It was not his to dispose of. We belong to our souls, not our souls to us.
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This work is too much of everything. Almost a DNF. Putting back in the deep recesses of a TBR shelf. Will give JR a chance later this summer.
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May 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This work is too much of everything. Almost a DNF. Putting back in the deep recesses of a TBR shelf. Will give JR a chance later this summer.
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Do they really know each other, do they really give anything to each other? or is all they have to share this…same conspiracy against reality they try to share with me?
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April 22, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Do they really know each other, do they really give anything to each other? or is all they have to share this…same conspiracy against reality they try to share with me?
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-My dear fellow, remember Emerson's advice, Basil Valentine said, and paused….We are advised to treat other people as though they were real, he said then, lighting his cigarette, —because, perhaps they are.
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May 5, 2024 at 2:10 PM
-My dear fellow, remember Emerson's advice, Basil Valentine said, and paused….We are advised to treat other people as though they were real, he said then, lighting his cigarette, —because, perhaps they are.
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—anyways you couldn't drownd on the land.
—You couldn't! Well it's…it's like that. It's like drowning, this despair, this…being engulfed in emptiness.
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—You couldn't! Well it's…it's like that. It's like drowning, this despair, this…being engulfed in emptiness.
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July 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
—anyways you couldn't drownd on the land.
—You couldn't! Well it's…it's like that. It's like drowning, this despair, this…being engulfed in emptiness.
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—You couldn't! Well it's…it's like that. It's like drowning, this despair, this…being engulfed in emptiness.
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My favorite reads of 2024.
Book Three.
Authenticity in one’s personal and artistic life runs throughout the novel. I was interested in the exploration of authenticity specifically in the case of self-identity in conflict with religious teachings.
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My favorite reads of 2024.
Book Three.
Authenticity in one’s personal and artistic life runs throughout the novel. I was interested in the exploration of authenticity specifically in the case of self-identity in conflict with religious teachings.
December 9, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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My favorite reads of 2024.
Book Three.
Authenticity in one’s personal and artistic life runs throughout the novel. I was interested in the exploration of authenticity specifically in the case of self-identity in conflict with religious teachings.
#WilliamGaddis
My favorite reads of 2024.
Book Three.
Authenticity in one’s personal and artistic life runs throughout the novel. I was interested in the exploration of authenticity specifically in the case of self-identity in conflict with religious teachings.
Fear, fear, pessimism and fear and depression everywhere…that's why your pictures are so cluttered with detail, this terror of emptiness, this absolute terror of space. Because maybe God isn't watching. Maybe he doesn't see….
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June 17, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Fear, fear, pessimism and fear and depression everywhere…that's why your pictures are so cluttered with detail, this terror of emptiness, this absolute terror of space. Because maybe God isn't watching. Maybe he doesn't see….
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December 29, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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—I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person….
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June 8, 2024 at 12:17 AM
—I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person….
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Do you think any painter did anything but hire himself out…Do you think a van Eyck didn't curse having to whore away his genius, to waste his talents…at the mercy of people he hated?
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June 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Do you think any painter did anything but hire himself out…Do you think a van Eyck didn't curse having to whore away his genius, to waste his talents…at the mercy of people he hated?
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The boundaries between good and evil must be defined again, they must be reestablished….you couldn't have a world in which the problem of evil could be solved…Oh yes, by confessing, to set up order once more between yourself and the world….
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May 30, 2024 at 1:09 PM
The boundaries between good and evil must be defined again, they must be reestablished….you couldn't have a world in which the problem of evil could be solved…Oh yes, by confessing, to set up order once more between yourself and the world….
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—Wasn't it woman brought evil into the world…When she picked the fruit from the forbidden tree…
—So the evil already there provided, and quite naturally she discover it.
—Yes, yes, and she gave it to the man…
—She share it with him…Thaht the reason why we love her.
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—So the evil already there provided, and quite naturally she discover it.
—Yes, yes, and she gave it to the man…
—She share it with him…Thaht the reason why we love her.
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May 8, 2024 at 12:15 PM
—Wasn't it woman brought evil into the world…When she picked the fruit from the forbidden tree…
—So the evil already there provided, and quite naturally she discover it.
—Yes, yes, and she gave it to the man…
—She share it with him…Thaht the reason why we love her.
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—So the evil already there provided, and quite naturally she discover it.
—Yes, yes, and she gave it to the man…
—She share it with him…Thaht the reason why we love her.
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—And when the crown is offered you…
—Yes,the third temptation, All these things will I give thee….
Do you think he didn't take me up on a high mountain, and show me all the kingdoms of the world…offer them to me? and give them to me…if this is not Renunciation….
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—Yes,the third temptation, All these things will I give thee….
Do you think he didn't take me up on a high mountain, and show me all the kingdoms of the world…offer them to me? and give them to me…if this is not Renunciation….
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May 13, 2024 at 10:04 AM
—And when the crown is offered you…
—Yes,the third temptation, All these things will I give thee….
Do you think he didn't take me up on a high mountain, and show me all the kingdoms of the world…offer them to me? and give them to me…if this is not Renunciation….
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—Yes,the third temptation, All these things will I give thee….
Do you think he didn't take me up on a high mountain, and show me all the kingdoms of the world…offer them to me? and give them to me…if this is not Renunciation….
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…this reality you used to talk about…As though you could deny, and have nothing to replace what you take away…Oh yes, zero does not exist…I watched you turn into no one…a pose became a life, until you were trying to make negative things do the work of positive ones.
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May 26, 2024 at 11:13 AM
…this reality you used to talk about…As though you could deny, and have nothing to replace what you take away…Oh yes, zero does not exist…I watched you turn into no one…a pose became a life, until you were trying to make negative things do the work of positive ones.
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And it's here! Another 20th century behemoth to tackle. 60 pages in, Gaddis is a highly unique flavour. New England haughty atmospherics. Paris awaits! #TheRecognitions
September 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM
And it's here! Another 20th century behemoth to tackle. 60 pages in, Gaddis is a highly unique flavour. New England haughty atmospherics. Paris awaits! #TheRecognitions
In Gaddis's galaxy, celestial objects heave into misalignment…then, even that is only temporary…Navigating this book, then, involves a kind of sidereal tracking of the paths of moving bodies….
- Tom McCarthy, introduction
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- Tom McCarthy, introduction
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September 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
In Gaddis's galaxy, celestial objects heave into misalignment…then, even that is only temporary…Navigating this book, then, involves a kind of sidereal tracking of the paths of moving bodies….
- Tom McCarthy, introduction
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- Tom McCarthy, introduction
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He clung as though to save himself from going over, not falling, but simply going over the side and out onto that swarming brilliance where everything would be all right at last.
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August 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
He clung as though to save himself from going over, not falling, but simply going over the side and out onto that swarming brilliance where everything would be all right at last.
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Lucifer was the archangel who refused to serve Our Lord. To sin is to falsify something in the Divine Order…His name means Bringer of Light…he tried to steal the power of Our Lord and to bring his own light to man. He tried to become original…command his own destiny….
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April 4, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Lucifer was the archangel who refused to serve Our Lord. To sin is to falsify something in the Divine Order…His name means Bringer of Light…he tried to steal the power of Our Lord and to bring his own light to man. He tried to become original…command his own destiny….
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