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There is only one coming of age story, and it is the realisation that while we believed that there were spirits beneath our feet, on our...

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There is only one coming of age story, and it is the realisation that while we believed that there were spirits beneath our feet, on our shoulders, guiding us, decieving us, mentoring us, that all along we were alone. That it was over before we ever started walking. We search for why, but only hear our own voice echo back. Many mistake it for a response, and they are often happier for it.

12.3.2025 06:48There is only one coming of age story, and it is the realisation that while we believed that there were spirits beneath our feet, on our...
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The wrench here is that Laoniu toys with the idea that it is perhaps "the concept of money" which still clouds us. Though, one...

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The wrench here is that Laoniu toys with the idea that it is perhaps "the concept of money" which still clouds us. Though, one could argue this in two ways : one, we have done as Lacan prognosticated and "found ourselves a new master" who may shield us from the real. Or two, we have killed our master, knocked down his statues, and now shield our own eyes from the blinding nothingness that stretches out before us. We only say we are being blinded by money.

12.3.2025 06:48The wrench here is that Laoniu toys with the idea that it is perhaps "the concept of money" which still clouds us. Though, one...
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Perhaps thats Le Malaise. It juxtaposes a shattering of ideological ridgidity with opening and liberalisation. Perhaps it is here that we...

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Perhaps thats Le Malaise. It juxtaposes a shattering of ideological ridgidity with opening and liberalisation. Perhaps it is here that we will find Truth, it suggests. But as the statues are torn down, as the cities are leveled, we find nothing beneath them. No beach here. We always suspected it, in the back of our mind...

12.3.2025 06:48Perhaps thats Le Malaise. It juxtaposes a shattering of ideological ridgidity with opening and liberalisation. Perhaps it is here that we...
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I always held that the definitive 68er slogan was "sous les pavés, la plage" Beneath the thin veneer of urban, capitalistic...

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I always held that the definitive 68er slogan was "sous les pavés, la plage" Beneath the thin veneer of urban, capitalistic functionalism, there must be some real, some honest space where the human may exist "truly", where they may enjoy. But behold : we are all mandelbrot, holding out little magnifying glass up to the coastline, many to this day searching for it, that essential real, the beach, somewhere, beneath it all....

12.3.2025 06:48I always held that the definitive 68er slogan was "sous les pavés, la plage" Beneath the thin veneer of urban, capitalistic...
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Laoniu was a student of French literature. He was, undoubtably, familiar with the post '68 over-the-shoulder philosophizing about a...

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Laoniu was a student of French literature. He was, undoubtably, familiar with the post '68 over-the-shoulder philosophizing about a political movement which both existed and never happened. My read is that he either hated it or at the very least disagreed with it. "It must be there somewhere," one is tempted to think. Beneath the words, beneath the hoitytoity symbolisms, SOMETHING happened. Something real...

12.3.2025 06:48Laoniu was a student of French literature. He was, undoubtably, familiar with the post '68 over-the-shoulder philosophizing about a...
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What if there were nothing ?I've written pages on the question ; for journals, zines, small publications. It's probably my favorite...

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What if there were nothing ?

I've written pages on the question ; for journals, zines, small publications. It's probably my favorite little lens by which to interogate a work. It's one of the Four Causes, its the "coming of age" question, its the paranoid voice in your head when you look upon something you truly love.

12.3.2025 06:48What if there were nothing ?I've written pages on the question ; for journals, zines, small publications. It's probably my favorite...
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but idk who knows maybe i'll finish the book and hate it we'll see

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but idk who knows maybe i'll finish the book and hate it we'll see

9.3.2025 20:16but idk who knows maybe i'll finish the book and hate it we'll see
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He trips, he gets mad, he acts like a child. Sometimes he's good at his job, and he does seem intelligent. And a lot of his weird,...

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He trips, he gets mad, he acts like a child. Sometimes he's good at his job, and he does seem intelligent. And a lot of his weird, rambling little thoughts -- to me -- represent someone who's just trying to... come to terms with all of this. Come to terms with the fact that you're not special, that no matter how stupid you think everyone around you is, you're stupid too. You trip and fall and act up just like them. You're no better.

9.3.2025 20:16He trips, he gets mad, he acts like a child. Sometimes he's good at his job, and he does seem intelligent. And a lot of his weird,...
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He says that he is the translator for a very important government ministry, doing very important work. The waitress blinks. "... And...

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He says that he is the translator for a very important government ministry, doing very important work. The waitress blinks. "... And ?..."
He then has one beer, walks up the stairs to his apartment, trips on a carpet, falls down the stairs, and dies.

... Well, kind of. He doesn't die (like, it says he dies, but then he just kind of... wakes up later, so it was more of a vision or something). But we are shown that he is just... a guy.

9.3.2025 20:14He says that he is the translator for a very important government ministry, doing very important work. The waitress blinks. "... And...
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He is surrounded by people who do not know how to do their jobs, and all of his heroes whom he has had the opportunity to meet have done...

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He is surrounded by people who do not know how to do their jobs, and all of his heroes whom he has had the opportunity to meet have done nothing but disappoint him. He goes to a small resturaunt and orders food. The waitress doesn't like him, and says "we're out of everything." He, exhausted by his collapsing world view and his misaligned expectation that others should "respect" him for some reason asks "do you know what I do for a living" the waitress replies "do you know how to do anything?"

9.3.2025 20:12He is surrounded by people who do not know how to do their jobs, and all of his heroes whom he has had the opportunity to meet have done...
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But, without saying too much in case I do decide to write something long form, I think one thing which has gripped me about this book is how...

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But, without saying too much in case I do decide to write something long form, I think one thing which has gripped me about this book is how it works through its own cynicism. The character is young, intelligent, and recently graduated from a very esteemed instution. And yet, he recieves little respect and no one seems to care about his pedigree. This perplexes and enrages him on occasion.

9.3.2025 20:09But, without saying too much in case I do decide to write something long form, I think one thing which has gripped me about this book is how...
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And in many ways, this is the historical movement of art we are discussing. If modernism, the modern Novel (capital N, the CONCEPT, the...

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And in many ways, this is the historical movement of art we are discussing. If modernism, the modern Novel (capital N, the CONCEPT, the Balzac, the Hugo, the pre-postmodern-interpretation Melville) was loquacious. It dominated the conversation and asked little of us. The post-modern novel is much more reserved, speaking rarely, and often in a manner one could consider disjointed or stilted. It asks much more of us.

9.3.2025 20:05And in many ways, this is the historical movement of art we are discussing. If modernism, the modern Novel (capital N, the CONCEPT, the...
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All art is a conversation. We just have this strange habit of "judging" these conversations after the fact as though we're...

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All art is a conversation. We just have this strange habit of "judging" these conversations after the fact as though we're juding the interlocutor. But really, we can't judge the interlocutor, we can only judge the conversation, which requires work on both ends (something to think about, if you're one of those who look down upon minimalist art, post-modernism, etc).

9.3.2025 20:02All art is a conversation. We just have this strange habit of "judging" these conversations after the fact as though we're...
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That then makes me think: does it matter? Is it important that the author PURPOSEFULLY brought me to some revelation, thought, or...

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That then makes me think: does it matter? Is it important that the author PURPOSEFULLY brought me to some revelation, thought, or conclusion? Or is it only important that I arrived at such whilst reading their work? While I lean toward the latter, I almost feel like its cheating in a funny way. It makes me reconsider what it is I truly love about my other favorite books, and how much of it is me, and how much of it is the author.

9.3.2025 20:00That then makes me think: does it matter? Is it important that the author PURPOSEFULLY brought me to some revelation, thought, or...
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It's funny to read something for the "first time" and try to form a cohesive, literary opinion on it. It has me doubting...

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It's funny to read something for the "first time" and try to form a cohesive, literary opinion on it. It has me doubting myself a lot, wondering if the value I see in it was placed there by the author, or interpolated (word?) by my own mind, imagination, or simple DESIRE for there to be some worth in this weird little book.

9.3.2025 19:58It's funny to read something for the "first time" and try to form a cohesive, literary opinion on it. It has me doubting...
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like, when I read House of Leaves last year, I already knew it was good. Same thing with Malloy and Infinite Jest, etc. They're books...

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like, when I read House of Leaves last year, I already knew it was good. Same thing with Malloy and Infinite Jest, etc. They're books that are just "good." They are worthwhile masterworks and universally are considered to have extistential cultural value. Similarly, if I were to read, like, idk, Harry Potter, I already know it's not worth my time, so that would color anything I read, despite me never having touched the book before.

9.3.2025 19:56like, when I read House of Leaves last year, I already knew it was good. Same thing with Malloy and Infinite Jest, etc. They're books...
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There's something really special about that, I think. Personally, i don't even know what my opinion on the book is. I'm like, 80...

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There's something really special about that, I think. Personally, i don't even know what my opinion on the book is. I'm like, 80 pages in and this is the first time in a very long time I'm reading a book that I don't already sort of have an opinion on before reading, which colors a lot of what I think about it.

9.3.2025 19:54There's something really special about that, I think. Personally, i don't even know what my opinion on the book is. I'm like, 80...
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mostly because it's a book which, clearly, SOMEONE connected with. The author is completely, totally unknown and yet a very famous and...

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mostly because it's a book which, clearly, SOMEONE connected with. The author is completely, totally unknown and yet a very famous and talented pair of Chinese->French translators went through the pain of translating TWO of his books. One of those books then won an award in France. And yet it's just... gone. Not a single review, not a recommendation on Amazon, not a soul seems to remember what this book is. it's sat untouched at my local library for god knows how long.

9.3.2025 19:51mostly because it's a book which, clearly, SOMEONE connected with. The author is completely, totally unknown and yet a very famous and...
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it's all quite compelling. it's had me thinking a lot about what we care to remember in our little society and what we find...

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it's all quite compelling. it's had me thinking a lot about what we care to remember in our little society and what we find important about literature.

i used to teach a little class on "how to read a book" (literally, how to discuss symbolism, pick out important themes, find things you connect with, etc) and this has me thinking about it all over again.

9.3.2025 19:48it's all quite compelling. it's had me thinking a lot about what we care to remember in our little society and what we find...
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they won an award that NO ONE has written about and has no newspaper presence (it took me 2 days to find what COUNTRY it's from) and it...

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they won an award that NO ONE has written about and has no newspaper presence (it took me 2 days to find what COUNTRY it's from) and it seems that, after writing two books to almost no acclaim outside of that one award, the author returned to their government desk job in China. it's quite human to think about.

9.3.2025 19:46they won an award that NO ONE has written about and has no newspaper presence (it took me 2 days to find what COUNTRY it's from) and it...
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