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Remember my excitement about the movie adaptation of “Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close” here? Well, I have sat myself down to start reading the novel first. Unfortunately, I share John Updikes’ review of his novel. The protagonist is 9 years old, but the novelist’s voice is way too strong. The thought processes don’t sound very [...]
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on the road
source But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the [...]
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Allen Ginsberg
On Burroughs’ Work The method must be purest meat and no symbolic dressing, actual visions & actual prisons as seen then and now. Prisons and visions presented with rare descriptions corresponding exactly to those of Alcatraz and Rose. A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. [...]
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brilliant-est film in 2009
i dragged my body half drugged with sleep to the theaters to catch inglorious basterds and all i can say it is the most fucking brilliant film EVER. period. i loved every single bit of it and tarentino is such a HUGE HUGE fan of german montage period theorist and what not (correct me if [...]
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classic penguin books
Everyone should own one NOW. Penguin Celebrations(!). redesigned in 2007, this series pays homage to the classic Penguin paperbacks by retaining their signature – the cutest! – colour/genre categorisation: orange for fiction, green for mystery, pink for distant lands, light blue for big ideas, purple for viewpoints and dark blue for real lives. get yours [...]
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#2 light
light furrows around her, wrapping her in the warm golden spectrum of the summer. she pushes her light brown hair across her face, taking great care stepping through the still quiet. the only sound she could hear was the thump thump thump of her heart, in line, on beat with the rhythm of the wind [...]
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#1 numb
all she could feel was the numbness in her heart the pump pump pumping of the blood no longer made any sense to the functions in the system. devoid of feeling of emotion and of senses she lay on her bed, watching the ceiling – mesmerized by its stillness, its blankness. her arms lay by [...]
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