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The sky is darkening like a stain,
Something is going to fall like rain
And it won't be flowers.
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Saskatchewan expatriate calling Hogtown home. I am fiendishly fond of literature. It's a good life.
currently reading: The Magic Mountain (oh god this is good but it is so long and now I'm 500 pages in and it's too late to turn back or come up for air even help help)
Septimus, what is carnal embrace?
When the phone rang she did not look at it the way they do in the movies. Real people do not look at ringing phones.
... and I was stamping and he was stamping on the floor, and then he kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hairband off, my lovely red hairband scarf which has weathered the sun and much love, and whose like I shall never find again, and my favorite silver earrings: hah, I shall keep, he barked. And when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face. His poem 'I did it, I.' Such violence, and I see how women lie down for artists. The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words; his poems are strong and blasting like a high wind in steel girders. And I screamed in myself, thinking: oh, to give myself crashing, fighting, to you.
"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
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1984
A
The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ake, Alice In Wonderland, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Amber Spyglass, American Psycho, Angelique, Animal Farm, Antigone, Arcadia, The Art of War, Artemis Fowl, At Home With The Marquis de Sade, At Swim, Two Birds, Autobiography of a Geisha
B
Bag of Bones, Beowulf, The BFG, Black Like Me, Blindness, Brave New World, Breakfast of Champions, The Breast
C
Call Of Cthulhu, The Call Of The Wild, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Cradle, Choke, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Chrysalids, The City and the Pillar, A Clockwork Orange, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Coraline, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
D
Dance Dance Dance, The Da Vinci Code, Death Of A Salesman, Disgrace, Dispatches, Dog & Crow, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Don't: A Woman's Word, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Dreamcatcher, The Dress-Lodger, Dune
E
Einstein's Dreams, The End of the Story, Ender's Game
F
Fahrenheit 451, Fast Food Nation, Faust, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fifth Business, Fight Club, Firestarter, Flatland, Flaubert's Parrot, Flowers for Algernon, Foe, The Forgotten Soldier, Foucault's Pendulum
G
Geek Love, Geisha, Genius in Residence, The Giver, The Glass Menagerie, Go Ask Alice, The Godfather, The Golden Compass, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. The Graduate, The Grapes Of Wrath, Gravity's Rainbow, Great Expectations
H
Hamlet, A Handmaid's Tale, Hannibal, Hapgood, the Harry Potter series, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Heart of Darkness, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit, Hocus Pocus, House of Leaves, House of Sand and Fog, The House of the Seven Gables, The House of the Spirits, How To Win Friends And Influence People, Huckleberry Finn
I
I, Robot, In Defense of Harriet Shelley, Interview with a Vampire
J
Jane Eyre, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Joyce We Knew, Jude The Obscure
K
The Kiss, Kiss of the Spider Woman
L
Life of Pi, Little Casino, Lolita, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, Lord Rochester's Monkey, The Lovely Bones, Lover of Unreason
M
Macbeth, Memoirs of a Geisha, Memoirs of Montparnasse, The Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, Middlesex, The Miracle Worker, Miss Lonelyhearts, Moby Dick, Murder in the Cathedral, The Myth of Sisyphus.
N
The Name of the Rose, Never Cry Wolf, Never Let Me Go, Night, Nine and a Half Weeks, No Logo
O
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Of Mice and Men, Old Man And The Sea, One Hundred Years of Solitude, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, On the Teaching of Creative Writing, Orynx And Crake, Othello
P
The Pearl, The Penelopiad, Perdido Street Station, Perfume, Phantom, The Phantom Tollbooth, Phantom of the Opera, the Photographer's Sweethearts, The Playboy of the Western World, The Poisonwood Bible, Pompeii, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Possession, The Postman
Q
R
The Remains of the Day, Riddley Walker, Rimbaud by Graham Robb,The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Road, Robinson Crusoe, Romeo and Juliet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
S
Salmon of Doubt, A Scanner Darkly, The Screwtape Letters, A Seperate Peace, She's Come Undone, Shooting an Elephant, The Silence of the Lambs, Silverwing, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, Snow White, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Sophie's World, The Sot-Weed Factor, The Stone Angel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Subtle Knife
T
The Tao of Pooh , The Te Of Piglet, The Tell-Tale Heart, Timequake, The Tin Drum, The Tin Flute, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tropic of Cancer, Tulip Fever
U
V
W
Waiting for Godot, Walden Two, Welcome to the Monkey House, The White Bone, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Winesburg, Ohio, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Witches of Eastwick, World of Jeeves, World War Z
X
Y
Z
The Zombie Survival Guide, The Zoo Story
Nodeshells
There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed
Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel no compulsion to get up from the table
Opening the cold vats, we saw what we had done
Can children of the refrigerator age know the value of ice?
no worries, no bothers, no captains, no fathers
when the Ocean existed outside of encyclopedias You will have no doubt and the sky will turn to gold You want to be my moderately intriguing genital diversion, yes?
The angels are lost in contemplation of an infinite glory you make my life a little harder than it has to be
"I love you" hangs in the air like a subtitle I was a teenage Bukowski
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
History rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes.
A romance of rumbles and sudden stops All people in Canada are the same age let me slip you out of your skin, sweetheart
I will stitch your heart together with filthy twine and sex
Yes. God forgive me. Yes.I've had kisses that make Judas seem sincere
look beneath the floorboards for the secrets I have hid Gravity's Rainbow is a book about rockets
Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
Prolific? Maybe. It could just be the mania.
that wounded rider knows the intimacies of the river. its earliest mud is still under his fingernails.
Let's smash letterboxes and drown postcards and slaughter postmen.
butterflies are passive aggressive and put their problems on the shelf, but they're beautiful, I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
there's nothing quite as wonderful to me as the assorted scars of a woman who's too busy reading to watch where she's walking It is a strange thing to wake up every day and do things you care nothing about
forget science, it's 2am and we are light-years from the sun
How long do you think I'll let you keep me here?
the flags are all dead at the tops of their poles
Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free. she filled my belly with snowglobe water
My blood is a sermon that burns upon contact Jane, you ignorant slut! Where do these girls come from these days? Some finishing school in the desert? Her hips made waves against his shore
Because I want to. Because I'm good at it.
I could use some of that frenzy
I assume I am a visionary. You will not be able to convince me otherwise. This knife. These hands. This dream. She lights everything up. He glows in the dark.
It's easier to drink on an empty stomach than to eat on a broken heart
There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
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