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Southland Tales Post
What struck me in this film was the repetition of certain phrases and tropes by characters and Pilot Abilene the narrator. “No one rocks the cock like Krysta Now.” “Welcome to the apocalypse.” “—is a pimp, and pimps don’t commit … Continue reading
Welcome to the Desert of the Žižek!
From page 11: “Virtual Reality simply generalizes this procedure of offering a product deprived of is substance: it provides reality itself deprived of its substance, of the hard resistance kernel of the Real…Virtual Reality is experienced as reality without being … Continue reading
David Foster Super Bowl
As if watching the glutinous self-referential and self-congratulating Super Bowl wasn’t enough of a weird trippy communal experience¹ (which I only participate in for the commercials and excuse to eat copious amounts of wings and dips), I now have the … Continue reading
The Simulation of Belief: Post on White Noise
The passage I chose is on page 319, when Jack is talking with the German nun at the hospital: “Your dedication is a pretense?” “Our pretense is a dedication. Someone must appear to believe. Our lives are no less serious … Continue reading
‘Why Write Novels at All?’ and the Franzen generation
Here’s a very relevant article from the Times magazine last week about the state of fiction today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/magazine/why-write-novels-at-all.html?scp=2&sq=franzen&st=cse I’ve copy and pasted the whole thing here if you don’t have a NYT subscription or don’t want to use up your … Continue reading
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Tagged David Foster Wallace, Jeffery Eugenides, jonathan franzen, Zadie Smith
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Sad Johnny Franzen
The most salient idea I gleaned from Franzen’s essay was that of decay and disintegration. He details and laments the loss of literary identity (“I was as depressed as the inner city of fiction,” 62), the “disintegration of the very … Continue reading
