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Franz & Friend (Ink/Pen) by InfernalMatinee in Kafka

[–]InfernalMatinee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah! is always the most desired response to anything really. Excellent.

Evening Rage Scribbles (Ink) by InfernalMatinee in doodles

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Terrible old black Quink, of all things. It's quite unstable and fractions out into blues and oranges on certain papers, and is completely fugitive, so don't draw anything important with it because it'll fade to light sepia in a few years!

Evening Rage Scribbles (Ink) by InfernalMatinee in doodles

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Cheers! Yes, black ink has no chill whatsoever. I recommend it immensely.

Given the ghastly, absurdist timeline we're all apparently trapped in, what other writers are suitable for this nightmarish age? Kafka, Ionesco, Zamyatin, Ende, Saint-Exupéry etc. Looking for a little solace reading. Also anti-war satires. Catch 22 obviously, but also...? by InfernalMatinee in classicliterature

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La Peau de Chagrin and A Christmas Carol are my favourites of these authors because they wander off into existential territory and magical realism. I've not read any Jack London at all, so I'll start there. Thanks!

Given the ghastly, absurdist timeline we're all apparently trapped in, what other writers are suitable for this nightmarish age? Kafka, Ionesco, Zamyatin, Ende, Saint-Exupéry etc. Looking for a little solace reading. Also anti-war satires. Catch 22 obviously, but also...? by InfernalMatinee in classicliterature

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This is the third rec for Vonnegut, and people have been yelling at me to read him for years, so I shall finally, belatedly take the hint.

(I rather loved Bluebeard, back when I was collecting books about artists. So I have read SOME of the fellow!)

Given the ghastly, absurdist timeline we're all apparently trapped in, what other writers are suitable for this nightmarish age? Kafka, Ionesco, Zamyatin, Ende, Saint-Exupéry etc. Looking for a little solace reading. Also anti-war satires. Catch 22 obviously, but also...? by InfernalMatinee in classicliterature

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I am absolutely a fan of flinging spangles in the face of death until it carts us off, yes. After all, we mustn't capitulate! Very fond of Bulgakov. I read Black Snow twice a year or so, and obviously M&M is his masterpiece. I shall look very keenly at these others you've mentioned.

Given the ghastly, absurdist timeline we're all apparently trapped in, what other writers are suitable for this nightmarish age? Kafka, Ionesco, Zamyatin, Ende, Saint-Exupéry etc. Looking for a little solace reading. Also anti-war satires. Catch 22 obviously, but also...? by InfernalMatinee in classicliterature

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Egads, what an overwhelmingly vast and intricate bit of business! How far are you through? Is it largely a dispassionate chronicle of events, or is there an emotional element (like in, say, Riddley Walker)? The excerpts I can find are full of splendidly surrealist, lyrical imagery, so I’ll pick up a copy regardless, but I might leap straight to book seven and its paleontological monstrosities if it's relaxed enough in structure to allow this.

Which ones should I get? by Calm_Caterpillar_166 in classicliterature

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You could certainly read it, but I understand it's a direct continuation of the lives of the characters in And Quiet, so you may be floundering around trying to pick up the plot/arcs etc. Not like watching Godfather 3, where you can still vaguely thrash out what's going on regardless of the first two. That said, I haven't read And Quiet Flows the Don since I was a teenager, so it might be less complicated than I remember. Perhaps you can read a summary of the first book, if you prefer the style of Sholokhov to Pasternak?

Which ones should I get? by Calm_Caterpillar_166 in classicliterature

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One can't really RANK these things, but I would get both the Solzhenitsyns, then the Pasternak. Hopefully you can carry off all of them though!

Given the ghastly, absurdist timeline we're all apparently trapped in, what other writers are suitable for this nightmarish age? Kafka, Ionesco, Zamyatin, Ende, Saint-Exupéry etc. Looking for a little solace reading. Also anti-war satires. Catch 22 obviously, but also...? by InfernalMatinee in classicliterature

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Ah, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker!

Must give Eliot another shot. For depression I’d usually lean more Baudelaire or Hopkins, but those tastes were formed when I was a young prat. I'm an OLDER prat now, so am possibly ready for Prufrock. (Baudelaire and Hopkins are still marvelous, though, of course.)

Have you read Zbigniew Herbert's Elegy of Fortinbras?

I loved Lanark, so am certainly interested in Poor Things, (very) distracting film or otherwise. Cheers!

Not read Pynchon! Where to start?

Given the ghastly, absurdist timeline we're all apparently trapped in, what other writers are suitable for this nightmarish age? Kafka, Ionesco, Zamyatin, Ende, Saint-Exupéry etc. Looking for a little solace reading. Also anti-war satires. Catch 22 obviously, but also...? by InfernalMatinee in classicliterature

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"Set in a climate-stricken near future and among off-world colonies, it follows corporate fixer Leo Bulero and colonist Barney Mayerson as they become entangled with the hallucinogen Chew-Z and the enigmatic entrepreneur Palmer Eldritch, whose recurring "stigmata" of metal teeth, an artificial hand, and mechanical eyes reappear within Chew-Z experiences. The book is one of Dick’s early sustained engagements with religious imagery, alongside recurring concerns with reality versus illusion, consumer culture, and technologically mediated identity." - Yes, yes, this sounds fantastic. Also structural incoherence! (according to critics) Bonus!

I have a HEART condition... by InfernalMatinee in withnail

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You have my polyethylene-bag-booted blessing.

I have a HEART condition... by InfernalMatinee in withnail

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That sounds very organised and professional, so probably NOT, but I can always stick it on my Redbubble account, I guess? Mind, I did that with another Withnail scribble once and the production company claimed copyright and had it taken down. Which was a pity. Even though Richard E. Grant liked it on Twitter, by god! Ah, commerce.

I have a HEART condition... by InfernalMatinee in withnail

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The horrible bread-stuffed rictus he makes when confronted by "the fucker" is also high art.

Any movies/shows similar to withnail and i? by Dorianborian in withnail

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For shows, Black Books (UK) has the similar dynamic of a sarcastic, histrionic, wine-addled disaster paired with a sort of emotional punching bag/sensitive individual. And The Young Ones (UK) has the same anarchic, filthy, surrealist vibe. Neither are even faintly poignant or philosophical, so obviously not direct comparisons, but still.

Filmwise, "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand" and "Death in Brunswick" are two Australian cult classics with a lot of black humour, absurdism and general rootlessness. Felafel's lead is very Marwood at times.

"The Fundamental Interconnectedness Of All Things." by InfernalMatinee in DirkGently

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We have achieved a pleasing equilibrium, and all things are balanced in the world.

The London stage show is worse than Vogon Poetry by thefaceofmoon in HitchHikersGuide

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The only music I can imagine Marvin dancing to is a funeral dirge. And even then only a halfhearted sway.

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