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For those who are sick of my thinly-veiled allusions of me going through it, and in celebration of our guy’s birthday, here’s something you didn’t know you wanted: a deleted endnote of Pemulis explaining some more Eschaton math [1/2]:

Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1, Chapter 1 is up! The LeSpark home and the frame story introduced. gravitysrainbow.substack.com/p/mason-and-di…

Just got jumped by a gang of brodernists. They saw me reading Sally Rooney on the train and identified me as a target. “Somebody help me” I shouted, as they forced pages of Mircea Cărtărescu novels into my mouth. They ran off into the night chanting “Schattenfroh, Schattenfroh”

A historic day indeed. The world is watching live how a man from a war-torn country stands up to two bullies.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

A hero and a coward are meeting in the Oval Office today. And when the meeting is over, the hero will return home to Ukraine.

Zelensky the only politician with balls

Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1, Chapter 3 is up! Mason and Dixon's first meeting and the Learned English Dog. gravitysrainbow.substack.com/p/mason-and-di…

Sean Cotter's translation of a short story from Cărtărescu's Melancolia. Read my review of the collection here: theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2021/04/18/mel…

RIP to one of the greats, Dag Solstad.

"This age... in which an entire nation aggressively chooses to embrace its inner contempt for anything but venality & ruthlessness, in which an entire nation,... chooses as its own singular embodiment a manifest sociopath..." Brilliant #SteveErickson, burning ferociously as ever.

Sharing my translation of two pieces Musil wrote for the Soldier Newspaper he edited during WWI: "Strange Patriots" & "The Holidays". Access in reply.

With today goes the last living author of the "Latin Boom," what José Donoso considered a marketing term, only for a few select men, who nevertheless wrote some of the greatest fiction in history. Most book marketing is unfortunate, but how lucky we are to have seen that Boom!

New substack! On Cronenberg, technology, mourning and fusion. Link in next tweet

‘A sweeping story, gorgeously drawn and beautifully told — this is Craig Thompson’s masterpiece.’ Joe Sacco In Ginseng Roots, his first graphic novel in fifteen years, Craig Thompson returns to the summers of his youth, weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on

Part of what unites these novels by Benedetto into a loose “trilogy” is the lack of self-examination by the protagonists. Their humanity stems from their deep flaws; their unearned confidence, their arrogance; we relate to them not for their growth, but for the lack thereof.

After a hiatus The Hobbyhorse is back! With Ethan on Rebecca West's THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the former's complex portrayal of "shell shock" unlocking a new interpretation of Dougie Jones and identity in Lynch's world. thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/magic-circles

Since today is Pynchon's birthday, I highly recommend the Riemann Hypothesis lecture (English subs). As we all know, this hypothesis plays an important role in Against the Day. youtube.com/watch?v=sZhl6P…