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Breaking the first rule of 'The 90-day Novel' by publicly implying I'm writing a novel. Such a rush

Finally doing my homework. Kind of like if Christopher Lasch was nicer.

I just can't quit you, China

The prose of Werner Herzog has cleansed me like the waters of a pure mountain stream.

Reading in the hope that afterwards people will actually tell me what's wrong with my screenplays rather than asking if I've read Save the Cat.

Fellas, is it gay to love God?

Weird trend in this book where the more sensational and upsetting you'd expect to find a chapter based on title the more it tends to be a massive slog.

If I finish this book but don't get the part and subsequently become an international sex symbol I will have to do something unspeakable

Doing research for an audition. Easily some of the worst character names in any book ever. Zsadist. Rhage. Ahgony. Duncan.

"It’s sad, the shipwreck of a civilization, it’s sad to see its most beautiful minds sink without trace—one begins to feel slightly ill at ease in life, and one ends up wanting to establish an Islamic republic."

At the beginning of this year I decided I either had to finish the collected works of Roberto Calasso or Michel Houellebecq. Really beginning to wonder how things might have gone if I'd made the correct decision.

He's just like me fr

So far just really nice to see Houellebecq breaking out of the "novel about the horniest guy you've ever met" mold

I can't quit you Michel

Every time I try to read theory these days I seem almost magically to find myself reading Houellebecq instead.

"As a last technique for living, which at least promises him substitutive satisfactions, he may take refuge in neurotic illness; this usually happens early in life. Anyone who sees his quest for happiness frustrated in later years can still find consolation in the pleasure gained from chronic intoxication, or make a desperate attempt at rebellion and become psychotic."

Dreamed I was trying to sleep when the woman next to me started crying bc apparently her friend was chopped up in a suitcase next to us in bed. I decided to open the suitcase and learned it's possible to throwup in a dream. I need to stop reading this.

Can't tell if I hate this or love this and don't think it's going to resolve

he's back, better, more schizo than ever

Returning to The Book of the New Sun w renewed vigor after discovering my dad is also reading these novels, and that my sister finds it extremely irritating when we discuss them through even the barest philosophical lense imaginable. Feeling 15 again. : )

I think I must've gotten like 50% dumber since I read Culture of Narcissism bc this shit makes no sense

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