The book-thread of seriousness

Two friends of mine who both are poets got a daughter two years ago, never seen a kid with such an enormous vocabulary.. I think they store their memory in her for later use.

I still vote for short stories or poetic prose, it's usually buildt in the same way as short stories. Enough feeling to knock you out of the chair, short enough to read in half an hour.

 

Pity. Haven't read it.

But from a brief perusal of the plot, he may have influenced Alan Moore's V for Vendetta

 

It's quite interesting. Has shit not taught in US schools.

 

Quite possibly he did.. But V for Vendetta feels like it was influenced by most of the pre-postmodernism dystopian stories. All from Karin Boyes Kallocain 'till Burgess The end of the world news are very much based on the same doomsday feeling, before or after the a-bomb the general agreement still seems to be that sooner or later society will become more and more what we now call orwellian..

 

Indeed.
Similar dystopian feels abound in his other work, Watchmen

 

The light weight questions:
What are you reading right now?
Couple different books. One on Celtic mythology, bunch of old national geographics, couple of graphic novels, etc. I'm always reading a bunch of different things.

Who is your fav author?
J. R. R. Tolkien

Do you read poetry, in that case, what type? Fav poet?
I read a lot of poetry, but I don't really have a favorite poet I don't suppose. Except maybe Saul Williams. I prefer to listen to my poetry really.

The heavy artillery:
How do you read?
With my brain.

Literature is like all art contextual, when reading something that is apart from your everyday context, how do you work with that?
With an open mind.

Do you write yourself? If, what genre and have you published anything?
Never published, but I write poetry, songs, short stories, and scripts.

and last:
any quotes?

Well, there's the one in my signature. It's an excerpt from a poem/song I wrote.

Here's another.

I close my eyes to define
my place in the world
Translucent memories surface
of the place I was before
Home is where the heart is
Yes, home is where your start is
It's where it was startin'
Where it got started
Where it all went wrong

There's so many places
These mysterious faces
Bearing on your soul, you know
Tearing on your soul, you know
Eating all you know
Treating all you know
with callous hands
Tainted lands
Drink some more, love


Introspective insecurity
Granted, you're at ease
With the damning of the sky
Will you ever ask why?
I'll never ask why
While you twist the knife in deeper
When the climb gets a little bit steeper
And the winds pick up
And the words get stuck
And the rain falls down
And we all go to town
And it all falls down
and down, and down
Yeah, it all falls down
and down, and down
In the end, but it doesn't really matter
Bout those petty things
The shiny things
It's just another glittering lie in a box
And you know it.


That's the sad part
You know, in your heart
This insubstantial bullshit
Isn't prerequisite
To the higher state of being
That you've all been meaning
To get around to
It's just another impeding
Self-deprecating
Glittering lie in a box.
And the rain falls down
And we all go to town
And it all falls down
and down, and down
And it all falls down
and down, and down
Yeah, it all falls down
It all falls down

 

Good point. I always get comments about my children and their vocabulary at young ages. They are just sucking it all out of me!

I do agree with you. Nice reminder

 

Hard Revolution, a novel set in Washington D.C. during the racial turmoil of the late 1960s. It qualifies as "crime fiction", but the themes and characterizations are a bit richer than what is typical for the genre.

The Brothers Karamazov is my favorite book, which I have used to reason that Dostoevesky is favorite writer. Although I find most of his work repetitive and merely clever, I also like Bukowski because when he's golden, he's golden. I read philosophy quite a bit and Rousseau is my favorite writer there.

I read slower than I used to, at times taking a month to finish a book no longer than 300 pages. I read many more books before the Internet era and I'm going to get back to that.

Accept it on its own terms, for I assume the very reason why many people read is to immerse themselves in something divorced from their everyday context.


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I have the Lash ("Culture of Narcissism") book and may read it early next year.

 

I gotta get my hands on Watchmen. And Sandman. And so many other graphic novels/comic books. It's a very interesting format and impossible for me to do myself, which is buggin the hell out of me. I can write, I can paint. But I can't combine them.

The dystopian theme is somewhat narrow, unfortunatly enough. Human imagination don't seem to be able to construct that many different theories about our possible future in terms of pessimistic ideas.

Have you read Jhonen Vasquez?

 

Ah, Sandman. Especially Seasons and Mists wherein Lucifer Morningstar is introduced. Neil Gaiman does good stuff.


The dystopian theme never gets old. One just has to know how to freshen it up. Case in point: Kingdom Come by Waid and Ross.

Jhonen Vasquez? Of Invader Zim fame? Heh. Good shit.

 

And the winds pick up
And the words get stuck
And the rain falls down
And we all go to town
And it all falls down
and down, and down
Yeah, it all falls down
and down, and down

I really like that passage. I read the text out loud to myself to get a better grasp of the rythm, it feels like something that should be read on stage. It has a good pace.

Ok, here's a quote from a short story I wrote:

"Your dreams against my fingertips. I'm ripping your lungs out of the torso. My arms stretched down inside the ribcage, gripping the wet and soft surfaces. This is always the hardest part, but I have the strength. The smell of your cologne on a man walking by me on the street. The recognition in someone else's voice.
Maybe you are a sous-entendre. Were you just a hint, a nudge-nudge, this is what you could have had? In that case I fooled them. I kept you. I know I should cut down on metaphors, on redefining you over and over again. But I'm bored."

the full story is here:
http://lovisamappelqvist.blogg.se/1188298106_frsta_engelska_texten.html

but every ' is changed for a ?, because of the blog tool, so if you read the whole thing, it's not my fault ok?

 

Yes, that Jhonen. ^_^ I get gigglish just thinking of Invader Zim, I know way too many quotes from that series.

Ok, while we are at the dystopian theme: Margarete Atwoods Oryx and Crake. I love that one. Her writing style is just.. well. brilliant.

 

Hasn't atwood done some sort of short story collection about canadian folk lore? atwood is one of my favourites.

I read the twilight series, I found it somewhat.. eh. Well, I got through it in a week of total procrastination.. I actually liked the fact that she gave bella a sex drive, but I found the portraying of the vampires a bit lacking in research or explanation for inconsistency with myths..

 

I'll have to check it out.

Just what I need more books (in addition to school 's crap) to read.

 

Do it. It's worth it. The male protagonist of the story is very realistic in a way that I often miss in these types of books.

 

Reading right now Assata
Favourite Author = Alex Haley

I only read about black history


Poetry = I only read my own poetry and I'm


Yes I write myself, I'm working on my book right now about my messed up life

If you judge a book by its cover, you may never read a great story, with a lousy cover

 

Or you just get a good graphic designer to do the cover.. Sorry, had to.


Why only read black history? Asked in a very conversational voice. Just curious.

 

Lol well i should have rephrased that, I didn't have time to read for years when I was with my ex, but now with all this free time I started again and have just been reading black history books but I'll expand my horizons shortly.

 

oh ok. It did sound a bit.. well. Narrow? Ok that if you go far back enough, all history is black history. O___o
So really, still all history stems from that, and is therefor, black history.. wooho, chain of logic.

 

Currently reading Steve Martins Autobiography

I have no fav author (they all good in their ways)

Poetry,,,yes,,,,Im a poet myself, but im more about SLAM poetry, on the mic.

This man is currently my fav slam poet.......realness at its realest

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