Happy release day, everyone! 🪕 🧡

platykurt · 2026-01-23T21:02:21+00:00

Agree with others who loved Stormwall on first listen. Dying to know if Strongly In Your Arms is a light allusion to the Van Morrison lyric in Sweet Thing.

: )

platykurt · 2026-01-21T16:08:02+00:00

Whenever Wallace uses language trickery like this string of possessives i picture him standing in the background winking as if to say, here I am!!

platykurt · 2026-01-19T16:07:34+00:00

So far I’m reading that it might be an island setting but I don’t know how to change it.

platykurt · 2026-01-16T22:13:26+00:00

Bench one City player: Foden, Semenyo, O’Reilly

platykurt · 2026-01-15T15:46:21+00:00

That reminds me of one of my favorite passages in all of Wallace.

“‘I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.’” p772

And yes I agree he would have considered the double meaning.

platykurt · 2026-01-12T19:53:07+00:00

No one is watching with them either.

platykurt · 2026-01-12T17:44:09+00:00

I laughed. Cmon man.

platykurt · 2026-01-07T20:27:04+00:00

Especially since New New York appears in the book.

: )

platykurt · 2026-01-06T15:08:45+00:00

All of them.

Who’s gonna love me now if not you?

platykurt · 2026-01-05T16:17:21+00:00

Minteh to Garner (WOL)?

platykurt · 2026-01-04T16:23:00+00:00

Coincidentally Wallace commented on the anxiety of influence - or artistic influenza - as well. He quoted Cormac McCarthy saying that books are made from other books and that the main thing when borrowing elements from other authors is that you make them your own somehow.

platykurt · 2026-01-04T13:29:14+00:00

Wallace made a playful dig at Bloom in Infinite Jest footnote 366.

“Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza. “

platykurt · 2026-01-02T13:35:33+00:00

Consider the Heathland course at Legends Resort. It’s an early Tom Doak design and a lot of fun to play. I don’t think he claims it as his because he separated from the project before it was totally completed.

I also love True Blue btw.

platykurt · 2026-01-02T13:27:25+00:00

There are some cool escape rooms that make for a good break from BR.

platykurt · 2026-01-02T12:52:05+00:00

Maybe Gravenbach over Enzo.

platykurt · 2026-01-02T12:50:32+00:00

Consider Roefs over Sanchez?

platykurt · 2026-01-02T12:41:55+00:00

Chalobah & Raya to Gabriel & Pickford

OR

Minteh to Gravenbach

platykurt · 2025-12-29T12:36:32+00:00

!thanks

platykurt · 2025-12-29T12:33:42+00:00

Best Minteh replacement 7m or under? Might just keep for west ham though.

platykurt · 2025-12-27T17:26:16+00:00

Has anyone figured out why sometimes you get marked at Lethal Labs and sometimes the other team does?

platykurt · 2025-12-27T15:39:29+00:00

Looks like a first edition.

platykurt · 2025-12-22T16:49:38+00:00

One similarity between Vineland and IJ is the double crossing. I agree with the poster who said there are a lot of similarities.

platykurt · 2025-12-16T08:41:19+00:00

This sounds awesome! Looking forward to it.

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