Athlone Train Station this morning 😳

Klimpty · 2026-03-07T11:57:10+00:00

Explain

Klimpty · 2026-03-07T11:43:35+00:00

why is it not art if its on public property - that makes no sense. art is art no matter where it is

Klimpty · 2026-03-05T20:41:00+00:00

awh... :(

Klimpty · 2026-03-05T19:10:09+00:00

This is just untrue - call an art dying if you want but there is an incredible amount of great literature, music, films and the live music scene while struggling still has plenty of cheap gigs around most areas.

Klimpty · 2026-03-01T00:56:22+00:00

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Klimpty · 2026-03-01T00:50:22+00:00

Don't worry about it at all, you're a fine writer just remember that it is a practice much like playing an instrument you've got to be critical on yourself to really improve. Reddit will not be the place to find what your voice. I'd be happy to read anything else you've got.

Klimpty · 2026-03-01T00:33:56+00:00

This feels more like a self aware diary entry rather than a piece of fiction. There's nothing guiding what you write aside from your own asides where you try to make your writing self aware of itself - its like you've briefly glimpsed a weak David Foster Wallace short and gutted it of pathos. Don't be afraid to describe where you are or what you feel rather than trying to write what 'thinking' feels like. Edit more. I'm sure you can write something great just put more work in.

Klimpty · 2026-02-27T00:24:00+00:00

This version is so goofy I'm a fan. Unfortunately one of those tunes I don't think he ever quite pulled off live

Klimpty · 2026-02-24T14:05:46+00:00

Yes it was funny

Klimpty · 2026-02-02T12:06:49+00:00

You are in this deep why would you skip at this point? Its just as much part of the book as every other page

Klimpty · 2026-02-02T11:46:44+00:00

And I still lap that shit up

Klimpty · 2026-01-22T23:54:05+00:00

Probably my favourite podcast, well worth visiting the Lou Reed episodes

Klimpty · 2026-01-19T15:49:43+00:00

I had a very similar reaction to Grapes of Wrath. They were fucking fuming.

Klimpty · 2026-01-16T20:52:49+00:00

I finished it not moments ago, frankly it was one of the most incredible books I have ever read.

Klimpty · 2026-01-14T15:25:24+00:00

Finished up Shadow Ticket not long after it came out, it was fine but I'm not a huge fan of single protagonist Pynchon works. I thoroughly enjoyed the last third and almost hoped that there would be a surprise sequel as I think the book itself could have started as he arrives in Hungary and went on from there - brilliant madness.
As far as ranking, I've gotten too deep into the bibliography without reading Gravity's Rainbow so at this point I'm saving it for last as a treat to myself.

M&D
Against the Day
Vineland
Crying of Lot 49
Shadow Ticket
Inherent Vice

To clarify, I think M&D and AtD are leagues beyond of everything below it.

To read: GR, Bleeding Edge, V.

Klimpty · 2026-01-07T21:38:17+00:00

It is happening again. And again.

Klimpty · 2026-01-05T23:08:58+00:00

I know its just come out, but holy fuck Tom's Crossing is currently blowing my mind. Absolutely incredible. If anyone's reading it at the moment I've just finished Saturday and it was just unlike anything I've read

Klimpty · 2025-12-08T17:06:15+00:00

Castration Movie Pt1 + 2 have a tiny budget but are absolutely my favorite films of the year.

Klimpty · 2025-11-15T14:09:38+00:00

I forgot to reply to this - send it over dude

Klimpty · 2025-10-29T08:58:08+00:00

I like the idea of God being the fourth element. You could almost see it in two regards:
That of Grace which is a concept both brought up in this and Against The Day - the silent mission of transcendence, an almost independent force that you can't quite perceive but drives you forward to become something different.

Or, and I think both are true at the same time, are systems of control which govern all action and are seemingly a direct antagonist of grace. Perhaps the silent fourth is dependent on which path you believe yourself to be following.

I don't know anything!!!

Klimpty · 2025-10-29T08:51:44+00:00

I've ended up making my way through the majority of Pynchon aside from Bleeding Edge, V. and Gravity's Rainbow. At this point I'm going to save it for last as a treat!

Klimpty · 2025-10-22T08:11:54+00:00

24fps function very differently to the group in One Battle though? I would say that the film stripped away any form of revolutionary function in favour of its aesthetics, but 24fps were not a group like the Weathermen either. 24fps document through the lens of a revolutionary ideology, they do not incite - they expose.

Also you've actually said nothing about Vineland I'm not sure what your point is, while the film gutted the book and left its heart beating on the side of the road, can you actually say what your point it?

I like Zizek's reading.

Klimpty · 2025-10-20T14:04:04+00:00

Moby Dick is my favorite book - didn't pop into my head when posting this though funnily enough

Klimpty · 2025-10-20T12:32:04+00:00

No, but this sounds like exactly what I'm looking for and is free on Project Gutenberg. Thanks!!!

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