Jacob Smullyan
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Born
in Seattle, The United States
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Influences
Satie, Furtwängler, Flann O'Brien, Dostoyevsky.
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Member Since
September 2012
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“If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.”
― The Writing of the Disaster
― The Writing of the Disaster
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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“Paragraphs like this, in their infuriating insignificance, contribute to the unfocused incoherence of the novel: a form in which I revel in the most (if unfocused incoherence might be considered a “form”—I think it can—or an anti-form, if you won’t), for it asks nothing from the author except a consistent failure to pull things together in a satisfying manner, and forces the reader to strain hard to comprehend the author’s non-existent intentions, and justify their own heroic effort to stagger toward the end of the novel, even if only to write a scathing online review of the novel. I hope that makes no sense.”
― The 1002nd Book to Read Before You Die
― The 1002nd Book to Read Before You Die
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