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Not a review yet, just an observation. Falling Angel ended on a note of such stark finality that I've been wondering for the past few years (as long as I've had this book) how the hell Hjortsberg found a way to move on from it. He might have wondered ...more "
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""I didn't know it at the time, but all the guests were Satanists."
(Just kind of a funny sentence.)" — Sep 18, 2026 03:55PM
""I didn't know it at the time, but all the guests were Satanists."
(Just kind of a funny sentence.)" — Sep 18, 2026 03:55PM
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"Did not know that the Stone Pony used to be a disco club called the Magic Touch, nor that the adjoining beer garden was apparently a den of iniquity featuring bikers, palm readers and even "go-go girls." Interesting tidbits in this book, but they're making me wish I were actually reading a Hunter S. Thompson-style narrative that would bring all this history to life." — Sep 11, 2026 04:35PM
"Did not know that the Stone Pony used to be a disco club called the Magic Touch, nor that the adjoining beer garden was apparently a den of iniquity featuring bikers, palm readers and even "go-go girls." Interesting tidbits in this book, but they're making me wish I were actually reading a Hunter S. Thompson-style narrative that would bring all this history to life." — Sep 11, 2026 04:35PM
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"The first time I met Fuck-Nose, Chicago's stage manager, he jumped onto my trailer from the floor of the Philadelphia Spectrum, looked around, didn't tell me who he was, didn't ask who I was, didn't shake my hand, and just said, "I hate people."" — Aug 28, 2026 11:29AM
"The first time I met Fuck-Nose, Chicago's stage manager, he jumped onto my trailer from the floor of the Philadelphia Spectrum, looked around, didn't tell me who he was, didn't ask who I was, didn't shake my hand, and just said, "I hate people."" — Aug 28, 2026 11:29AM
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“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race--small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”
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“Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to the Marquis de Sade?”
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“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
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