Maximalism


Infinite Jest
Gravity’s Rainbow
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The Recognitions
Against the Day
Mason & Dixon
The Pale King
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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The Corrections
White Teeth
Underworld
Jerusalem
Ducks, Newburyport
Ulysses
Barbara Browning
Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and sexual identification. … But [regarding] national character …, aside from references to a national aesthetic — literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both — the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Me ...more
Barbara Browning

absent pleasures are not bad
David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

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