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We are grieving for a life we had expected to live, for the hopes and aspirations that we held for our child, and by default for ourselves; we are mourning the freedoms and potential of a future we had planned and anticipated, but hadn’t
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“What any experimental art is trying to get you to do is move beyond your preconceptions and your expectations regarding what should be happening, what's going to happen, what kinds of effects it should have, and enter a liminal state in which those things can be redefined in the way that the particular artist or piece of art is proposing.”
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“The air was so thick with crumbs that it was like a scene from the horror film that cakes would make if they had video cameras and thumbs.”
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“Unfinishedness avoids the stupidity of conclusions”
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“Minimalism is close to mediocrity and mindlessness, a way for the ungifted to have a literary career, and for readers who really hate literature to pretend to be reading something serious.”
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“Okay, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?”
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The BURIED Book Club
— 947 members
— last activity Feb 27, 2026 06:22PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
Dorothy Richardson
— 81 members
— last activity Oct 28, 2023 10:32AM
A group for all things related to the life and work of this criminally neglected Modernist genius who died alone, forgotten and poverty-stricken, in 1 ...more
Finnegans Wake Grappa
— 139 members
— last activity Nov 24, 2025 01:59AM
Lotts hab funn at Finnegans wake!! Here Comes Everybody!! Alle Laffing Prettee!!!
Women and Men
— 232 members
— last activity Mar 22, 2026 12:56AM
Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more
William T Vollmann Central
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— last activity Jan 28, 2026 10:59AM
This corner of goodreads shall serve the needs of rainbow readers of Mr Vollmann's indulgent body of work. We welcome the veteran and the fresh flesh ...more
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