June 1st, 2009 / 12:40 pm
Excerpts
Blake Butler
Excerpts
Power Quote: Thomas Bernhard
The matured idea is enough in itself to destroy most people.
– Correction, p. 203
Tags: correction, thomas bernhard
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that’s brilliant!
that’s brilliant!
Yikes. This is a new favorite; I just ordered B’s The Voice Imitator.
Yikes. This is a new favorite; I just ordered B’s The Voice Imitator.
any matured idea? i’m confused, i don’t think i get it. i know a matured woman can destroy most any boy. that makes sense. but a matured idea? does that mean like a generalized something that you live with and its layers unfold and are revealed to you as life-experiences pique your mind for different volts and registers?
any matured idea? i’m confused, i don’t think i get it. i know a matured woman can destroy most any boy. that makes sense. but a matured idea? does that mean like a generalized something that you live with and its layers unfold and are revealed to you as life-experiences pique your mind for different volts and registers?
voice imitator is slammin.
voice imitator is slammin.
The Voice Imitator *is* slammin, but very different from the (mostly) unparagraphed, recursive, ranty novels and memoirs he’s most famous for. It took me a while to warm up (if that’s the word) to TVI; at first I found it flat and pretty annoying. My way in was realizing that many or most of the stories are written in the style of old-fashioned newspaper pieces — which taken together, make for a very weird newspaper indeed. (Many, many pages of love for/vituperation against newspapers in Bernhard’s other novels.)
The Voice Imitator *is* slammin, but very different from the (mostly) unparagraphed, recursive, ranty novels and memoirs he’s most famous for. It took me a while to warm up (if that’s the word) to TVI; at first I found it flat and pretty annoying. My way in was realizing that many or most of the stories are written in the style of old-fashioned newspaper pieces — which taken together, make for a very weird newspaper indeed. (Many, many pages of love for/vituperation against newspapers in Bernhard’s other novels.)
Another book on my shelf that needs be cracked.
Another book on my shelf that needs be cracked.
Bernhard is just so good. Reading him makes my teeth ache.
Bernhard is just so good. Reading him makes my teeth ache.
I don’t get it. What does that mean? Explain it to me please…
I don’t get it. What does that mean? Explain it to me please…
if you dont know i dont know how to tell you
if you dont know i dont know how to tell you
i asked the same question, i suppose we may never know. i tried to offer my own tentative understanding as a possible interpretation, but the void is large and swallows all voices that do not echo its own name.
i asked the same question, i suppose we may never know. i tried to offer my own tentative understanding as a possible interpretation, but the void is large and swallows all voices that do not echo its own name.
more aptly: who gives a fuck what it means
more aptly: who gives a fuck what it means
i know you are transmeaning in general. but i am both fascinated and plagued by meaning, as a phenomenon and as an application.
i know you are transmeaning in general. but i am both fascinated and plagued by meaning, as a phenomenon and as an application.
it means if you build a perfect cone in the forest and stick your sister in it you’re in love with you’re pretty much fucked, is what it means.
it means if you build a perfect cone in the forest and stick your sister in it you’re in love with you’re pretty much fucked, is what it means.
:: secret handshake to mark ::
:: secret handshake to mark ::
, so Roithamer.
, so Roithamer.
oh. im kinda stoopid. I thought that quote was from someone who was saying something. Like advice quotes. When someone is giving me advice, I like to understand what they’re trying to tell me I gotta do.
If its from a book, I can run with it as there is no personified intent behind it. Personified intent? whatever… you know what I mean…
oh. im kinda stoopid. I thought that quote was from someone who was saying something. Like advice quotes. When someone is giving me advice, I like to understand what they’re trying to tell me I gotta do.
If its from a book, I can run with it as there is no personified intent behind it. Personified intent? whatever… you know what I mean…
it is advice
it is advice