Apr 20, 2025
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A book about a medieval hotspot that has lost its relevance in the 19th century and a man who is horribly depressed and sees the city as his emotions dictate it. What doesn’t sound amazing about this? Pretty much the quintessential Symbolist novel.
Jan 18, 2024
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Recently bodied this. Old big French novel. Technically about the mining strikes in northern France in 1866, and definitely about that, but also just about life during that time. Scrapping in the mines. Living in close quarters, turning up in the village with the other workers. The implied stuff Zola looks at in terms of family structure, mating rules, social life. It moves like novels of that time, like the Russians, say, in how it roams omnisciently in that quintessentially 19th century way. But something about how he starts it, with the protagonist pulling up to a new town, homeless and hungry, and seeing him gradually integrate into the mining community… The intimacy of living in such close quarters… Idk, it’s counterintuitively spicy, I recommend it, it slaps.
Aug 16, 2022
In all seriousness there’s my life before this book and my life after this book.
So shamelessly focused on interior, domestic and the mundane but written in the most extraordinary prose style which worships at the shrine of the beauty of words. One of the best opening pages of all time (gonna post on here later) and completely changed my outlook on my own writing.
Also trivia, Leduc was a real writers writer and championed by the greats of her day, Cocteau, Genet and de Beauvoir to name a few.
Nov 5, 2024
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Just giving everyone a heads up i’ll be on the hunt for clout in the seattle art museum. There’s an Ai Weiwei exhibit so hopefully there will be a bounty of clout to harvest.
Mar 15, 2025
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and yup… it’s Kino.
Feb 12, 2025
Anyone ever get in big trouble for it? Inspired by this couch by Ai Weiwei that I wanted to sit on.
Mar 16, 2025