Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.

- William T. Vollmann, Europe Central
born on this day, 1959

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Only 8 pages into that behemoth and I'm already hooked #williamtvollmann #books #litterature

"I asked Steve how many people he knew who would envy us if they could see us now, and he thought awhile and said: Zero. —That made me even happier."

—RIDING TOWARD EVERYWHERE, William T. Vollman

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We all have in us the ghosts of long-vanished things, of fallen cities and marvelous machines.
#GeneWolfe, 1982
from #TheSwordoftheLictor of
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A veces el verdadero valor de todo un libro es hacer visible una palabra, porque a veces una sola palabra basta.

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Taking this one slower to take notes, but just passed page 666 of William T. Vollmann's FATHERS AND CROWS. Yay!

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@palidofuego-ed.bsky.social Ponedlo en la lista de vuestros futuros proyectos. 3400 páginas!!!! 🔥💪📚

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When you finish a great book by one of the hoboest writers in America ( "The subterraneans" by #kerouac ) and you pass by a beautiful bookshop and you want to go in because you saw That book by #williamtvollmann in display and you find out that this book is about hobos...Life goes #books circle ❤️

I have often observed in myself that my will has decided even before my thinking is over.
—Bismarck (ca. 1878)

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I am currently reading THE DYING GRASS, but there is no such thing as too much Vollmann. Although I'm an atheist, I can see the beauty in other beliefs. With humility, and humanity: "Among the discarded of the world"

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Parece mentira que esto esté ya en marcha ❤️🔥

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"I inhabit evil times. I watch the ruination of my planet and the moral suicide of the nation which Adams sometimes fought against to fight for, and it makes me cynical. Being cynical is not all bad. Sometimes it can be fun. But it is mostly sad and tiring..."

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book a day for 20 days. #books
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On its live event on YouTube, Arcade Publishing has just confirmed that Gerald Ford is in A Table for Fortune. #WilliamTVollmann #ATableforFortune

Who gave you birth?
Fire's my father. Doom is my mother called.

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What child is there that lives, as I did, midway between Reality and Fairyland, that does not long sometimes to leave altogether the familiar world and set off in search of new and fabulous realms?
—Hanna Reitsch, German pilot, ca. 1947

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