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proximoceptionWhat the hell, I'm game.
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Fahrenheit 451 just kidding. Maybe The Faerie Queene since no one else will do it.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I don't think so? Perhaps I'm unimaginative.
The last book you bought is:
Got a whole bunch at once, the most remarkable one being a paperback selection of Tolstoy essays against drunkenness and laziness, apparently published by a cult. "Copyright 1975 by The Church of the Way, Inc." On the back cover it is explained that "The Way is the universal spiritual tradition of mankind. It is not one among many philosophies but the Truth behind all truth. It is not a religion and not a science, although all real religion and all real science stem from it. The Way is the primary source of all coherence, all significance, all sanity, all strength, and all joy. It offers freedom: it demands everything you have. The editors of 24 Magazine are themselves concerned with living the Way and with helping others to find and follow the Way. For information write..." Was $1.25.
The last book you read:
Reread The Metamorphosis for school. Previously, The Blithedale Romance.
What are you currently reading?
John Crowley's Little, Big. Amazing so far, a sort of fairy tale where all supernatural elements delicately embody truths too close to home for effective plain statement. A bit like Mulholland Drive in its turning around of escape conventions. An escape into.
Ten books you would take to a deserted island.
Shakespeare's works
Remembrance of Things Past
War and Peace
The Faerie Queene
Shelley's poems
Ibsen's plays
Faust
Moby-Dick
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's shorter works
These are favorites but maybe it would be better to have something to argue with, like The Bible or Plato's Dialogues. Finnegans Wake presumably is much different from reading to reading. Be nice to have one or two vast literature anthologies like Oxford's or Norton's. Maybe something contemporary too, to remind me of home. Sabbath's Theater is the best book I've read written in my own lifetime; but let's see where Little, Big goes.
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Fahrenheit 451 just kidding. Maybe The Faerie Queene since no one else will do it.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I don't think so? Perhaps I'm unimaginative.
The last book you bought is:
Got a whole bunch at once, the most remarkable one being a paperback selection of Tolstoy essays against drunkenness and laziness, apparently published by a cult. "Copyright 1975 by The Church of the Way, Inc." On the back cover it is explained that "The Way is the universal spiritual tradition of mankind. It is not one among many philosophies but the Truth behind all truth. It is not a religion and not a science, although all real religion and all real science stem from it. The Way is the primary source of all coherence, all significance, all sanity, all strength, and all joy. It offers freedom: it demands everything you have. The editors of 24 Magazine are themselves concerned with living the Way and with helping others to find and follow the Way. For information write..." Was $1.25.
The last book you read:
Reread The Metamorphosis for school. Previously, The Blithedale Romance.
What are you currently reading?
John Crowley's Little, Big. Amazing so far, a sort of fairy tale where all supernatural elements delicately embody truths too close to home for effective plain statement. A bit like Mulholland Drive in its turning around of escape conventions. An escape into.
Ten books you would take to a deserted island.
Shakespeare's works
Remembrance of Things Past
War and Peace
The Faerie Queene
Shelley's poems
Ibsen's plays
Faust
Moby-Dick
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's shorter works
These are favorites but maybe it would be better to have something to argue with, like The Bible or Plato's Dialogues. Finnegans Wake presumably is much different from reading to reading. Be nice to have one or two vast literature anthologies like Oxford's or Norton's. Maybe something contemporary too, to remind me of home. Sabbath's Theater is the best book I've read written in my own lifetime; but let's see where Little, Big goes.
