Wolven ([info]wolven) wrote,
@ 2008-10-08 12:35:00
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Current mood:Thinking...
Current music:air currents

The day, so far.
Rainy, cool.

Have to work.

Need to research.

Need to make a reading schedule, for myself.

Thinking about staying up all night to re-read House of Leaves.

And you?


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[info]vonfaustus
2008-10-08 07:01 pm UTC (link)
Advising the non-magical types to invest in the porn industry.

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[info]wolven
2008-10-10 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Nice.

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[info]mr_six
2008-10-08 09:16 pm UTC (link)
BTW: I suspect you would love this: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0980544009/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

As I said in my amazon.co.uk review:

I read this book and began to Fall. It induces vertigo. From its opening pages you are pushed into a yawning void. An American artist travels to meet an online correspondent who has disappeared and left behind a profoundly disturbing manuscript, filled with cryptic notes and occult references.

"How long have I been in this room?" Such is scribbled in the margin, a desperate question that echoes something fundamental about being.

In Cylonopedia, we are treated to a Burroughsian fervour - the heated breath of the Middle East on the back of our neck. In a climate where fear is the desired method of calming the populace, Negarestani presents us with a text that is a living thing which defies literary and philosophical taxonomy.

Cylonopedia reveals the softness that lurks beneath the solidity of things, cracking the gridded pipelines of perception and sending you, wonderstruck, into the darkness in which you hear the buzzing of Pazuzu, the mutterings of Abdul Ahazered and the oozing burn of hot poisoned flesh.

If Danielewski's House of Leaves disturbed you with the Navinson Report, the Cylonopedia, with its heretical philosophy, does to politics, economics, mythology and religion, what Dreams in the Witchouse did to space.

Amazing work.

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[info]mech_angel
2008-10-10 10:18 pm UTC (link)
*purrs* Need. Now.

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[info]wolven
2008-10-10 10:30 pm UTC (link)
I think I'll be putting this on my Wish List.

Thanks, for this.

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[info]raidingparty
2008-10-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)
Just got House of Leaves from [info]amazingmrparker. It's after either Shakespeare or White Wolf, whichever one I finish first.

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[info]wolven
2008-10-10 10:30 pm UTC (link)
Let me know how it goes.

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