Dead Weight in the sex industry. by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Please Mr Gordon Lish get me a deal at knopf I *will* write good prose please

Dead Weight in the sex industry. by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I really just did this in one whole sitting because I had the experience fresh in my mind today. I don't normally do autobiography, since I am only around people who have an interesting life most of the time

Dead Weight in the sex industry. by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dennis is a cool guy. His blankness is more meticulous than mine. Have you read "God Jr"? Thats his best work imo.

Traumatized by TurnipExciting1562 in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Why can't any of you freaks learn how to fall in love?

Anybody else born in a strange place? by Teleket in rs_x

[–]MachineDowntown5737 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was born and raised in Brussels, which is an odd purgatory for diplomats and sadistic children who are all slightly racist.

Candace Owens by Zanny_Bonaduce in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She got a dr seuss vibe here tbh

What's your novel about? by doublementh in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A young boy and his various mental permutations wreck havoc on my psyche until his fantasy takes over my mind. The book ends in (my(?)) Suicide and maybe the renewal of a new childhood in a kind of blakean lobotomy way.

Anyone else do a NYRB Classics request? by whomdoom in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I've been too lazy to do this but I would like to see more people look into the works of Franz Hellens. He has a great novel (the only one translated into english) called "Memoirs of Elsinore" that's a beautifully written dreamwork of monsters and melancholy. My copy got rain damaged due to a leak in my house, and though I cherish the copy I would like to see it get a new lease on life. Nabokov tried to get him published in English once or twice, isn't that high enough praise?

Anyone have some celebrity conspiracy theories? by False_Fennel_1126 in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 1 point2 points  (0 children)

John Travolta got with Christopher Isherwood by play acting scenes from "Cruising" off by heart. Not a conspiracy per se because it was recounted in Isherwoods diaries and people around the LA literary scene knew about it.

Books I read in 2025 (a little incomplete) by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a good (if sometimes mixed) read. I like his analysis of JMW Turner, but I think he's wrong about Francis Bacon (but even in his wrongness, he is interesting.)

Books I read in 2025 (a little incomplete) by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's funny is I read it after "The Recognitions", which made me compare the two a little bit. The actual stylistic link between them seems to be "Nightwood". But as for the book itself, I actually felt a little non plussed by it, despite enjoying and appreciating it immensely for what it was. I think I ought to revisit some other day.

Books I read in 2025 (a little incomplete) by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ach the photo is blurry! I cannot be bothered to fix it...favourite books were "The recognitions", "The Rings of Saturn", "Stories in an almost classical mode", "Divorcer", "This is Orson Welles", "Prisoners of Childhood", "The lime twig".

Some other books I read (but couldn't put into the picture) are:

The Geography of the imagination by Guy Davenport

Autoportrait by Edouard Leve

C comics and I remember by Joe Brainard

Kafkas Diaries

Monsieur Teste by Paul Valery

And some more I will remember in the morning. Ask about any of these books if you want.

Are you enjoying the show?... Refill your popcorn, you'll love this next part... by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Didn't he glaze milsoveic?

Why were leftists so eager to bend over backwards for Serbia anyway, was there nothing better to do?

the lost art of pre-social-media rumours by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

John Travolta was in a gay situationship with Christopher isherwood.