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If hell exists, what’s the one book that they make you read over and over for all of eternity?

Tao Lin: Hm...maybe Finnegans Wake.

>> No.3184680

BEE's bibliography

>> No.3184679

I agree.

Now go to bed.

>> No.3184681

Bed. Now.

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Tao Lin on his optimal writing circumstances:

I like to feel like I'm “operating” optimally, as I produce things, in my life. I like to be focused on whatever project for the entire day, every day, structuring other things around it. I like to be healthy, and while working not be digesting food, so that it seems my brain has more power. My ideal “regiment” seems to be something like eating only raw fruits and vegetables, exercising to some degree, sleeping without an alarm, listening to music through earphones (while working), drinking coffee and/or tea every day (before working), and taking some kind of stimulant, or alcohol (at times I’m not working) maybe 1-5 times a week—with less/more some days/weeks, to create some kind of “disturbance” in tolerance levels and also to create a situation of “constant” variety, which seems desirable to me, in this “regiment.”

I'm not sure if I actually produce more work when “using” this “regiment.” Maybe I just feel happier, so it seems like I'm producing more work. It isn’t really a “regiment” maybe because it sort of is focused on variety and “disturbance.”

I don't want to feel I "need" anything though. If I feel myself becoming "neurotic" in some way, like feeling that I “can't” write unless sunlight is on 41% of my face or I've had 7.4 ounces of coffee, I usually will force myself, or tell myself that I should force myself, to not "encourage" that, in part because I would like to "work towards," in my life, if anything, having the ability to feel/think what I want regardless of environment/situation.

>> No.3184690

>>3184683
>autism

>> No.3184691

>>3184683
see >>3184681

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>>3184681
I've yet to read Bed. I'll start on it as soon as I finish Eeeee Eee Eeee

>> No.3184700

>>3184683

>If I feel myself becoming "neurotic" in some way, like feeling that I “can't” write unless sunlight is on 41% of my face or I've had 7.4 ounces of coffee

babby's first attempt at deadpan absurdism

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>> No.3184698

>>3184683
Those fucking "quotes" infuriate me. I don't "know" why.

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>> No.3184702

>>3184698
They remind you of REI, who imitates Lin's style and combines it with capslock,

>> No.3184704

>>3184700
>not realising he is sincere

>> No.3184710

>>3184702
>REI
>not KOZ

sup newfag

has any1 read nis new story
http://www.undergroundbooks.org/2/post/2012/11/ronald-mcdonald-rei-koz.html

>> No.3184714

>>3184702

I'm not too sure about that one, REI's been peddling that schtick on other boards for fucking ages. He's definitely dedicated to his own brand of autismal wonder.

>> No.3184715

>>3184710

>I HAD TO TAKE OFF MY BRACELETS

lolfag

>> No.3184717

>>3184700
I'm not sure, man. We Y-Gens can get really quite awfully neurotic about things like that. Especially when it comes to angles and measurements.

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>>3184710
But the quotes in this don't annoy me. They're there for a reason. Lin just plonks them down wherever the fuck he likes.

Where's that Angelina Jolie gif? Here it is. Fuck you, Lin. Fuck you!

>> No.3184742

>>3184715
Srsly, what's up with the bracelets?

>> No.3184751

>>3184710
I read all of that. Why the fuck did I read all of that?

>> No.3184765

>>3184751
It was okay. I'm inferring that the character is some kind of aspen. The story lets us experience how he thinks about things. It also hints at a larger story. He could make a novella out of that, which I wouldn't mind reading but would not pay for.

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>>3184710
>Holden Caulfield's day at McDonald's

>> No.3184816

>>3184710
I like it very much. Would read more of him.

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>>3184776

phonies hatin' on my bracelets, yo