February 2012
Currently:
Not giving a crap about the awards thingy on tonight.
Perhaps I’ll watch a recently pirated movie.
Bolaño on Literature, Kafka and the Abyss →
walkwhilereading:
Which authors would you number among your precursors? Borges? Cortázar? Nicanor Parra? Neruda? Kafka? In Tres you write: “I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans were fighting to the death. From a wrought-iron seat in Central Park, Kafka was watching the world burn.”
“I never liked Neruda. At...
“I think Facebook is colossally dull. I think it’s like everyone coming to live...”
– Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, opining on the worth of certain technologies in Capital New York. (via tragos)
Guh. That’s exactly right.
