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i can recognise someone who’s read mark fisher and internalised the slow cancellation of the future

i don’t think i’ve ever seen a better premise for a work of fiction lol

i love that every chapter ends and starts like

“Yuan Shu raised a glass to toast his victory when suddenly Lu Bu charged in halberd raised yelling bloody obscenities.

Will Yuan Shu survive?

Let’s find out.

Chapter 7

Lu Bu swung his halberd and killed the assassin preparing to strike at Yuan Shu”

class

“it was one of those public buildings which thought purpose-built still seem unfit for purpose”

there’s no one doing it like m john

funny that one of Gray’s most famous lines “work as if you’re in the early days of a better nation” is written in the margins of a prolonged violent sexual breakdown

part of the reason I want to understand literature more and part of the reason I mourn the death of good criticism is I want to understand what Dickinson is doing when he writes Baru in the third person but Xate Yawa in the first. I’m so intrigued by the decision to be in the internal monologue of a secondary an(pro?)tagonist but we’re always kept at arms length of the protagonist.

I first read this around 2018 and remember it had one of the most insane twists in a novel i’d ever read. i didn’t realise there’s a conversation this far in that actually lays it out if you read between the lines.

there isn’t enough marxist economics focused fantasy. this is so good.

i misremembered how the novel is structured but even so Victoria’s entrance into the novel in her own voice is such a gut punch. and it’s about to get worse! I can’t believe Alasdair Gray wrote the two greatest novels of all time.

laughing at how much Boregos butchers the political themes of the novel. what a dumb hack fraud!

the part about archimboldi (the part about the crimes is so bleak man)

“what’s best in life?
easy: chilling with the homies”

but the fact remains that the plots of the Thaw and Lanark sections are independent of each other and cemented by typographical contrivances rather than formal necessity. a probable explanation is that the author thinks a heavy book will make a bigger splash than two light ones.

but the fact remains that the plots of the Thaw and Lanark sections are independent of each other and cemented by typographical contrivances rather than formal necessity. a probable explanation is that the author thinks a heavy book will make a bigger splash than two light ones.

“since competitive capitalism split us off from the collective unconscious we’ve all been more or less crucified”
on to book four

“i want to write a modern divine comedy with illustrations in the style of william blake”

the part about the crimes

the part about fate!

someone on other unnamed book review site compared this to ken loach which is Not true (not a value judgment, factually inaccurate)