I think I can read anything now.

Feb 10, 2009 09:19

I finished Agapē Agape by William Gaddis yesterday. It was for my Monday night class ( Read more... )

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Re: hmm tonyisthehero February 11 2009, 00:09:32 UTC
Here's the first page or so..

No but you see I've got to explain all this because I
don't, we don't know how much time there is left
and I have to work on the, to finish this work of mine
while I, why I've brought this whole pile of books
notes pages clippings and god knows what, get it all
sorted and organized when I get this property di-
vided up and the business and worries that go with it
while they keep me here to be cut up and scraped
and stapled and cut up again my damn leg look at it,
layered with staples like that old suit of Japanese
armour in the dining hall feel like I'm being dis-
mantled piece by piece, houses, cottages, stables or-
chards and all the damn decisions and distractions
I've got the papers land surveys deeds and all of it
right in this heap somewhere, get it cleared up and
settled before everything collapses and it's all swal-
lowed up by lawyers and taxes like everything else
because that's what it's about, that's what my work is
about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of lan-
guage, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation
wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in
sight, entertainment and technology and every four
year old with a computer, everybody his own artist
where the whole thing came from, the binary system
and the computer where technology came from in
the first place, you see? I can't even go into it, you see
that's what I have to go into before all my work is
misunderstood an distorted and turned into a
cartoon because it is a cartoon, a whole stupefied mob
out there waiting to be entertained, turning the
creative artist into a performer

It goes on like that for 96 pages.

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Re: hmm atrophy_of_life February 12 2009, 02:40:20 UTC
sweet jesus. that hurt my eyes. the end of the first sentence is.. that question mark 6 lines from the bottom.. wtf. maybe ill hold off on that one for a bit

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