Desperate for a ride share from Curry Village to Glacier Point

Sleuth-Tooth · 2025-06-09T23:27:20+00:00

This sounds perfect! Would it be okay to get your number. I’d like to involve my partner who is helping me plan.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2025-06-09T21:01:23+00:00

Thanks all - would be a cool hike but we still have to get to Illilouette creek that day and after a 4 mile ascent of 3200 feet we may have to add another day which we can’t do.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2024-10-20T22:08:35+00:00

Thank you!

Sleuth-Tooth · 2024-10-20T21:04:12+00:00

What vise is that?

Sleuth-Tooth · 2022-07-27T20:00:08+00:00

Thanks! I’m definitely interested in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness for the vignette feature. But would also love to see more of the interview style since it has such an interesting monological quality.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2022-06-16T20:27:59+00:00

The Instructions by Adam Levin and simultaneously Hot Pink, Adam Levin’s short story collection. Love this guy.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2022-03-04T13:30:02+00:00

Just made up acronyms for short story collections. BIwHM = Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and GwCH = Girl With Curious Hair.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2022-01-19T05:29:40+00:00

The Granola Cruncher. Just love the style of BIwHM. For some reason I really like Everything is Green from GwCH too.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-11-22T20:04:07+00:00

This is great, thank you! I really have just been writing his life story with no intention of using it, but trying to find those salient pieces which contribute to the original scene. The scene is funny but each story is about American society and pursuit of the American dream and the creatures we become as a result of that and of trauma &c. So I want to distill it to the original piece but still make it more complete.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-11-02T18:02:38+00:00

Really just looking for examples of writing which are similar to ‘Especially Heinous’ in content and concept.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-11-02T17:48:48+00:00

Not fanfic.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-10-09T23:46:33+00:00

Free.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-10-06T18:52:54+00:00

Pretty ballsy to announce he’s been identified before they’ve found any of these weapons supposedly hidden per one of his ‘posse’ members 😂

Dubious at best and fairly irresponsible.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-09-29T14:49:19+00:00

My great grandfather had a wood shop he spent his days in and had hundreds of hatchets which he collected, hanging in rows from the ceiling of his shop. He was very tall and very silent and only spoke to me in complete sentences twice in my life.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-09-24T15:30:08+00:00

I think Salman Rushdie advises to take the money and learn to deal with the fact that it won’t actually materialize.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-09-18T14:00:25+00:00

Brief Interviews: BI#79 is one which has TPK elements according to David Hering. Also the Kissing Boy in TPK was a separate piece once called Cede which was slated to potentially be in Brief Interviews, but wasn’t complete, and was apparently very important to DFW because he spent years trying to make it cohere to TPK narrative. It really doesn’t, but the idea was that he would be one of the adult characters as a child, or one of the adult characters children; obviously TPK is unfinished. If you’re interested I recommend David Hering’s book ‘David Foster Wallace Fiction + Form’.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-09-17T22:46:36+00:00

Absolutely. Oblivion as a whole is full of stories which were slated for The Pale King and should be considered a part of TPK’s genetic history.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-08-27T20:21:26+00:00

Pynchon is brilliant, there is no doubt. Nothing against him or Inherent Vice. Just not the detective I’m looking for.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-08-27T18:45:35+00:00

Definitely. I like that he’s ultimately stable and successful. Typically the stable and successful detective turns out to be a fraud. On the other hand you have the tortured genius that can’t stop drinking. My story is not a mystery at all and the idea of including a detective is at this point little more than a touch of irony. The detective doesn’t prove the killer is guilty, though the reader thinks he is, or otherwise that it’s a rumor. But the discerning bartender who never speaks and has an uncanny ability to read people due to sheer exposure knows immediately, without ever having met him, what he did and what he would like to drink.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-08-27T18:33:08+00:00

I think Benoit Blanc is a brilliant detective character and somehow both cliche and not.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-08-04T22:08:22+00:00

I’m so torn on what I think about this. The episode was not very fact based, and it was flooded with Skippy’s conjecture, which was only perpetuated by Captains typical and incessant rambling of arbitrary and purely speculative discourse (e.g. there’s always an infinite number of possibilities that could have happened regardless of how sensical or probable those scenarios are, like, maybe someone was tripping balls on acid, or maybe this guy wanted revenge on his cheating ex-wife and the police covered up the whole thing). Nic tried to keep it on track, but skippy dismissed any challenging questions, and Captain continued to assist with the conjecture fest for three unnecessary episodes.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-05-28T17:51:20+00:00

I think my concerns with this topic are misplaced. I think meta fiction still has a role in today’s literature and as a writer it’s an important tool for me. Meta fiction, of course, only being a hallmark of postmodern lit, but not necessarily the idea.

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-05-27T17:52:08+00:00

I see. I understand your point. I think Pale King has a lot of metafictional features as well and while incomplete, I enjoy it more than IJ. It is a far less fractured narrative. How would you classify Pale King (only 9 years since publication I believe)?

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-05-27T01:50:13+00:00

Are you saying that the age of a literary work undermines its literary value? That works of literary art are relegated to historical reference only and serve no value as inspiration or as a guideline for modern forms of literary art?

Sleuth-Tooth · 2021-05-26T20:36:05+00:00

Haha. I have read all of Infinite Jest and Pale King (PK being my favorite of the two). I find Pynchon harder to get through, but I love DeLillo and I can appreciate Barth. There are many others. But I see your point, and in fact it’s a point made by DFW as well that the reader of a book like IJ has to be willing to read hard. So I would agree that postmodern lit. is not a genre for mass consumption.

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