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by Thomas Pynchon

bookshelves: currently-reading, postmodernism

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Le feu follet suivi de Adieu à Gonzague

by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

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"I think I spent an hour reading the first ten pages because I had to look up every other word. My elementary school French was not built for this!!" — Feb 16, 2024 08:36AM

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The Complete Poems

by Walt Whitman

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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”
― Anthony Bourdain

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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