John ‘NR’ Wayne

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John ‘NR’ Wayne

John ‘NR’ Wayne

@nr_wayne

Reader. I enjoy challenging fiction and the pursuit of human connection through love of literature. CR: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 2/6

Alberta, Canada Katılım Mayıs 2020
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“Are words able to do more than images? Because everyone can see differently with words, other images or no images at all, while images shown are the same for all, even if the allegorical meaning of both words and images can remain more or less hidden from others” Brilliant book
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Been a looooooooong 2 weeks face down on my couch with a gas bubble in my eyeball…Finally, slowly opening books again. Here is my post-vitrectomy TBR stack. Happy to be back here seeing what y’all are readin’ Peace.
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Krapp's Last Vape@SatireRedacted·
The riddle of The Tunnel is why make a novel about the soul of fascism, its psychological antecedents, its indwelling in the heart of an embittered academic, such a sensuous read that revels in the pleasures of the text; the mouthfeel of language?
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Convinced that seeking & engaging with fine fiction is an antitode to the complex emotional and psychological challenges afflicting youth from the ongoing onslaught of the modern mass media machine. Enough plot-driven convention, they need thought-provoking, life-affirming stuff!
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John ‘NR’ Wayne@nr_wayne·
@_motherslug Oh geez ya that right there is an example of a great marriage eh! Boy that Normy Gunderson can sure fix some good eggs. Yah! I just love that movie too!!
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Ana@_motherslug·
Still Life with Pynchon.
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Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be yourself. To give love is to lose love. Abdicate from life in order not to abdicate from yourself. Woman is a good source of dreams. Never touch her.
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Among my favorite modern authors who cannot seem to miss, I plan to sneak this in just because recalling how singular and effective her narrative voice was in her first two novels. This sounds real neat. I’ll keep ya posted…
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@Nick_Wellings It’s the best book I’ve ever read that isn’t Infinite Jest. Deeply affecting and thought provoking. I recently bought his ‘Sleepwalkers’ as well😬
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@nr_wayne I need to reread Virgil. What an achievement that was in translation.
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Beautiful. I’ll say these…: Against the Day A Naked Singularity The Recognitions 2666 The Death of Virgil Riddley Walker Ulysses The Runaway Soul Miss Macintosh, My Darling The Book of Disquiet Darconville’s Cat
Harris Gondal@dontharrisme

Some novels I wish to reread/read under a different light at some point in future: 2666 Moby Dick The Magic Mountain Under The Volcano To The Lighthouse Anna Karenina Austerlitz Absalom, Absalom! Don Quixote Sula Pedro Paramo How about you folks?

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Let’s have some discourse on this, please?!😊 Another one with very polarizing opinions. It seems directly up my personal taste alley. Playful, unconventional, ‘plot’less… I just couldn’t resist. No, haven’t done Last Samurai yet…
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@maxdaniellawton @iprimaa I’m almost finished my fifth journey with it, and each time it further reaffirms exactly what you’re saying. It’s riches are endless.
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All I know is that INFINITE JEST is the best American novel of the last 50 years, is an eternal work of art with unbelievable insight into the human condition and modernity, and that to be able to write such a book is a divine boon, a blessing—hell, even reading it feels lucky!
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Unpacking the books and just came across a pretty good box...
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shain 📚@shainreads·
Here's my bookshelf currently. There's a few more compartments to fill. Feel free to zoom and psychoanalyse me if you want.
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“I recognised that kind of pleasure which requires, it is true, a certain effort on the part of the mind, but in comparison with which the attractions of the indolence which inclines us to renounce that pleasure seem very slight.” I.S.O.L.T Vol. 2 Exactly what reading Proust is!!
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This thing is too big and beautiful not to own, however, certainly seems to garner much mixed reaction within the bookish circles I wander. Please chime in here with your thoughts. I hope to give it a try later this year. Maybe.. Cheers
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@draxtor What is that supposed to mean?😗 I’m just at ETA to play tennis. Damn, that woman needs to lock her office!
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draxtor™@draxtor·
@nr_wayne John Wayne, what a pleasure! How is Avril doing these days? Oh wait ... I THOUGHT THE AFR OFF'ED YOU? 😅
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draxtor™@draxtor·
Nobody: Hey Drax, have you ever read the Bible? Me: well well well … I have read the Bible indeed!
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Listening again, but the footnotes are just a delightful reminder of how brilliant and unique DFW was, specifically here regarding the elaborate and hilarious universe at E.T.A. I’m guessing there are at least a few of you thinking about rereading IJ. I think you should 😬
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