/lit/ - Literature

>>1870104
I suspected it was like that. Thanks for the insight. Very interesting concept. I used to work for a carpet designer....

>>1869961
Sorry, that's Alberto *Manguel* (sp)

I don't know anythign about Borge's except this:
When Alberto mangual was doing to lecture circuit here recently, he told about how he used to read aloud to Borges after he (Borges) went blind. He said he was working as a clerk in a store where Borges used to shop, and Borges asked him to come read aloud to him. Apparently he asked other people to, also. But Borges knew most of what was being read, and always corrected the reader.

Hat Glasses and a Beard don't seem suspicious at all.

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>>1869910
Do you know anything about the origin of the flying carpet story? I briefly perused 101 Arabian Nights but didn't think I saw it. Been looking for the origin.

I read The Shining when I was 12, so that's the one I'm going to rec if we're going with SK.
Hitchhikers Guide that year too, I think. Also I started smoking. First girlfriend. Yeah, 12 is a busy time...

>>1869848
Zig Zag Zelda, excellent play. It instilled a latent interest in Zelda, which I haven't fulfilled, though I think I'll look for her bio. Actually am reading about Edie Sedgewick now, though.
But I think it takes two to tango, and F Scott was certainly on the dance floor with her.

>>1869796
Yeah, I wasn't sure about that. Haven't used it since 2003 or 04. Used Photographers Market a lot more.

I don't know about ebooks, but there's lots of regular books out there. Some that jump to mind (I'm only suggesting them, not endorsing them really) are The first one or two Carlos Casteneda books, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, also The Doors Of Perception was inspiring. Consider throwing away the concept of a specific type of book, but maybe look for books by or about people who inspire you and look at the way they lived.

Writers Market 2012. Good use of 30 bucks.

I never hear James Thurber mentioned here, but I've been laughing at his work since I was a kid (his daughter was my babysitter, who also made us some nice plates, which hang on our wall, oddly enough). The Thurber Carnival is a greatest hits short story collection. My favorites are "What Do You Mean It Was Brillig?" "The Night The Ghost Got In", "The Day The Dam Broke" and "The Curb In The Sky".
Dry humor. Still makes me laugh.

>>1867088
Like I said, it was a statement about art. And I don't know, why should you give a fuck? I'm an artist, and I produce things people don't need to have.

>>1867095
>>1867102
So angry! Look at the emotional response I brought forth, by an act of artistic expression. Anything that elicits such a response must surely be art, Dontcha think, Edie?

Andy was a confused young man disenchanted from his family. OK, that's cool, join the club. But he eventually turned into a weird cult leader who simply used art as his implement rather than religion or politics. I can appreciate his soup can and the idea behind it, but I think he eventually gave into the demons of his past and surrounded himself with admirers and hangers-on, shunning those who couldn't see it "his way". When someone is ostracized and ridiculed thier entire young life, they build up a big stock of "get back at", and once he was comfortable enough he used his talents to sooth those wounds selfishly, rather than express them outwardly. Now go ahead and call me a faggot again, I'm sure that would justify my opinion in Andy's eyes. He'll think about paint and he'll think about glue, what a jolly boring thing to do...

I recently went to an exhibit of Polaroids he had done, and specifically stood directly in front of them and looked everywhere but directly at the photos. I did not see a single one of his photos (and didn't pay to not look at them, either). I did comment intelligently on the lighting fixtures and paint on the walls.

I was making a statement about art.

You weren't motivated to NOT be a loser by reading about losers?
Then try the biography of someone you admire.

>>1862628
Hey, I work here...Or there, where you are. In fact, I'm here right now.

Anyone who's in Ye Olde Loop knows that the CIA hypnotized Lee Harvey Oswald to go back in time and author these magnificent works. Thimk, people, thimk.

>>1864620
Owldus Huxley

I had fun thinking about this last night. Not really serious, but it might make a fun short story.

Apparently the "Animal Afterlife" is full up with animal souls, since mankind has turned livestock consumption into a major industry.
For every cow that is killed, a ghost cow turns up in a field somewhere. Thousands of ghost cows have appeared before anyone notices their semi-transparent shapes wandering the fields and passing right through fences. The biggest problem with this is that they spook the other cows, of course, who stop producing milk and become very hard to manage. Maybe even these host cows are whisper-mooing to the live ones what will happen.
Then it starts happening with chickens, too.
The entire livestock farming industry is thrown into an uproar.

(We're going to completely ignore the religious implications that would turn it into something long and complicated.)

Eventually, the problem is solved by genetically mutating the livestock so that it is blind and deaf. Mankind has cheeseburgers and chicken fingers once again, and manages to easily herd the ghost animals into the ocean, where they get lost and hang out with the ghost tuna,

>>1862762
1. It sounds like that movie "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad etc. World"
2. I like it. Maybe one of the people at the party could be Stephen King. And also John Malkovich.

>>1857746
Hey, whatever it takes.