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differance

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  1. I read about that on dennis cooper's blog, a week or two ago, sounded v interesting. I ended up putting it in my amazon cart, but did get the feeling it was gonna be one of those books that i would have to "work" on. I'd like to hear your thoughts when you finish tho.
  2. rest in peace denis johnson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48124
  3. i am probably 1/4 done with Persona 5, taking a break from it rn, probably going to take me several months with multiple breaks to get through it, which was the same way i played P4G, although it really suffers from not being portable imo. wanting to try out dead cells, but I currently I have been sucked into PlayerUnknown Battleground I also am playing tale of tales "the Path"
  4. I am currently reading Atticus Lish's "Preparation for the Next Life", about half-way finished, so take my words provisionally, but I am thoroughly enjoying the novel, both it's prose style and thematic development. The book has been described as the 21st century "anti-Manhattan" novel. I assume this is due to it's refusal to romanticize New York in the stereotypical ways - intelligentsia culture etc. PfNL is the story of a relationship that develops between an Iraqi war veteran suffering from PTSD and an undocumented Chinese immigrant, and their attempt to restructure their lives together. The counterbalance between their congruities as individuals in desperation to establish their lives as marginalized figures in contemporary America, and the disparities of their situation / histories is quite striking and remarkable. From the little I have read, there is an incredible drive to "make things work", to keep pushing on, "In theory, it might have been possible to figure out where he was from the map and how he could get back. Instead, he said to himself, No, let me go all the way to the end" (Lish; my italics). PfNL is in this way life affirming in it's unrelenting pursuit of possibility, but also underneath the text exists a doomed fatalism. The response to this underlying fatalism is not resignation, rather, let me go all the way to the end. interesting image/assessment of contemporary America Also, some interesting biographical info on Atticus Lish - he is the son of Gordon Lish, the legendary editor responsible for Raymond Carver's development as a writer. I learned today that he also was ex-military and worked as a translator of technical chinese texts, providing some context to the subject matter of thenovel.
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