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PULP It is an ancient fairytale told by a drunk hag, full of sex and fury, apparently signifying something. A late and very good Beckett text. The voice that would not die. One of the most beautiful sites on the web: The Illuminations of Father William Blake in facsimile. I have a modest
proposal: Couldn´t some idealistic programmer someday write a program that
would (hypothetically) generate all the books in the library of Babel? It
should be easy…
A
novel-as-thought-experiment a bit reminiscent of Borges: The narrator visits
a strange country whose inhabitants hold views that are diametrically opposed
to our own. Or aren't they?
Lewis Carroll: The Alice Books The rules of
polite society laid out for beginners, starring one of the most adorable
females in world literature.
No one gets out
of these enormous rooms alive.
A short dream text, written by a rich eccentric of the 19th century, linking French Romanticism and Surrealism. (I) A totally opaque and fascinating book, probably as close to the language of dreams as anyone ever came.
A haunting celebration of isolation and the dubious pleasures it brings. Written 1871 in Paris, by a 23-year-old Montevidean.
This short story is one of the Lovecraftian texts not too spoiled by his pretentious style. It was among the inspirations for this site, so I thought I´d include it. The long, dark deterministic fallacy of the soul. (For some reason, in cyberspace the French original is nowhere to be found, only an English translation.)
The withering of Natural Law.
"Wisdom is
sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." This novel inspired
the movie "Stalker" by Tarkovsky. It´s somewhat long-winded, but
worthwhile for some haunting imagery. More dream
texts. (I)
Elinor Wylie: The Venetian Glass Nephew Wylie from New Jersey wrote many poems and some novels,
influenced by Ronald Firbank. Her "Glass Nephew" is the most
mannered and ornamental and beautiful allegorical Frankenstein tale you will
ever read. (I learned that this text might not be in the public domain, so I
put the publication on hold until further notice. I recommend the book,
though.) - No responsibility taken
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