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  • underground lover
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2010
    • 29

    subvert normality.

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    • Teazer
      Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 50

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      • Matay
        Junior Member
        • Jun 2010
        • 18



        Really great overview of some important essays on current ideas in architecture, particularly addressing a "digital" mindset.
        the monotony of domesticity was not to his liking

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        • Acéphale
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2010
          • 444

          Originally posted by whatisit View Post
          Kafka
          from Franz Kafka's Diaries
          « Attacks on the road, in the evening, in the snow. There are conflicting thoughts always in my head, more or less thus: My situation in this world would seem to be a dreadful one, alone here in Spindlermühle, on a forsaken road, moreover, where one keeps slipping in the snow in the dark, a senseless road, moreover, without any earthly goal (it leads to the bridge? Why there? In any event I didn't even go that far); I too am forsaken in this place (I cannot consider the doctor to be any personal help, I didn't win his aid by my merits, at bottom the fee is my only relationship to him), incapable of striking up a friendship with anyone, unable to bear having any acquaintances, full, in fact, of an infinite astonishment before a cheerful company or before parents with their children (at the hotel, indeed, there is not much gaiety; I wouldn't go so far as to say that I am the cause, in my capacity as "man with too long a shadow," but as a matter of fact my shadow is too long, and with fresh astonishment I observe the capacity for resistance, the obstinacy of certain beings who want to live "in spite of everything" in this shadow, right in it - but there is much more than this to be said on the matter); forsaken moreover not only here but in general, even in Prague, my "home", and what is more, forsaken not by people (that would not be the worst - as long as I live I could chase after them), but rather by myself vis-a-vis people, by my strength with regard to them. I am fond of lovers, but I cannot love, I am too remote, I am excluded. »
          Last edited by Acéphale; 02-03-2011, 08:44 PM.
          ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

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          • 525252
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 246



            I managed to read this entire book inside the bookstore.

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            • nickcave
              Junior Member
              • Oct 2010
              • 8

              im reading cg jung -- the archetypes and collective unconscious book

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              • Johngd
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2009
                • 152

                Originally posted by swami View Post
                Bukowski's WOMEN , really enjoying it !

                I can swear the character of Hank Moody on CALIFORNICATION is a watered down / sugared up version of Henry!
                depressing but funny reading^

                Currently reading


                at the university
                Last edited by Johngd; 02-05-2011, 09:53 AM. Reason: spelling*

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                • Real Real
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 619

                  Just finished Pornographia by Witold Gombrowicz, the English translation by Danuta Borchardt. It's worth reading - the book uses twisted, striking phrasing and a light touch to build insights about aging and eroticism into an entertaining, good humored sex farce about two Polish intellectuals manipulating two sixteen year olds into committing murder. The translation seemed like it was a particularly good one.

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                  • Teazer
                    Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 50

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                    • Fade to Black
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 5340

                      Originally posted by 525252 View Post
                      how was this? Thomas Demand and Hedi Slimane sounds like a curious mixture.
                      www.matthewhk.net

                      let me show you a few thangs

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                      • nekroterrorist
                        Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 31

                        Just gave up on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
                        Her mindset makes sense to me in creative disciplines, a la Fountainhead, but not so much her blatant praise of capitalism - the half facts, half truths, one-sided-ness really gets to me.

                        Finishing a Nietzsche anthology and then moving onto some Kafka is my plan now.

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                        • Carpe Noctem
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 112

                          How far did you get in Atlas Shrugged?
                          "My Roll is to Rock"
                          -Jimmy Page

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                          • galia
                            Senior Member
                            • Jun 2009
                            • 1719

                            I just finished reading Equus. It's actually really good. I would have liked to see the original stage production, the intro to the book made it sound really interesting.

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                            • galia
                              Senior Member
                              • Jun 2009
                              • 1719

                              Originally posted by Real Real View Post
                              Just finished Pornographia by Witold Gombrowicz, the English translation by Danuta Borchardt. It's worth reading - the book uses twisted, striking phrasing and a light touch to build insights about aging and eroticism into an entertaining, good humored sex farce about two Polish intellectuals manipulating two sixteen year olds into committing murder. The translation seemed like it was a particularly good one.
                              One of my favourite books ever I think. I like the economy of it, how everything about it revolves around the idea of pornography but without any sex at all. It's amazing

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                              • nekroterrorist
                                Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 31

                                Originally posted by Carpe Noctem View Post
                                How far did you get in Atlas Shrugged?
                                100+, just after the John Galt line had its first run.

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