Tag: Wolfe
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“A Descent into the Maelström”/What I am reading
I read “A Descent into the Maelström” this week in addition to finishing “Vamphiri!” and working on a couple other things that I’ll mention below. It’s a story about a whirlpool, and the narrator’s failure to die in it after figuring out that the larger an object, the faster it gets sucked down, so he…
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30% of “The Recognitions”/“Book of the New Sun”/Rereading/‘Difficult’ Reading in General
“To Mrs. M—, I was “a pompous snob, and a real ass-hole.” -Johnathan Franzen According to my kindle, I am 30 percent of the way through William Gaddis’ “The Recognitions”, which is a book that has a reputation of being a ‘difficult read’. Some of this reputation comes from Johnathan Franzen’s essay called “Mr. Difficult”,…
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