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I'm almost 2/3 through, a pleasant interesting read so far, though not so engaging. Very self referential. Jed, the main character in Houellebecq's book, hires Houellebecq, the author of the book to write descriptions of Jed's paintings, and is paid
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"Mostly this happens in 2001. It's a dystopia written in 1990 so global cooling is a main problem, along with the Japanese takeover of everything." — May 02, 2024 09:01AM
"Mostly this happens in 2001. It's a dystopia written in 1990 so global cooling is a main problem, along with the Japanese takeover of everything." — May 02, 2024 09:01AM
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"It started OK, but I have a bad feeling about the sleuths, and about the crime. It seems like a professional hit, more or less, with one victim shot, and the sleuth pistol whipped. But the men-folk don't want to tell the police. Why? I assume that girl power will win out." — May 09, 2023 10:16PM
"It started OK, but I have a bad feeling about the sleuths, and about the crime. It seems like a professional hit, more or less, with one victim shot, and the sleuth pistol whipped. But the men-folk don't want to tell the police. Why? I assume that girl power will win out." — May 09, 2023 10:16PM
“Wait."
"So what am I supposed to do now?"
"You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey."
(222-223)”
― American Born Chinese
"So what am I supposed to do now?"
"You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey."
(222-223)”
― American Born Chinese
“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”
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“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
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“Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.”
― Chronicles, Volume One
― Chronicles, Volume One
“I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
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