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It’s actually more like this fr. Western Mass is Appalachia. I know this in my soul.
I would rather live in Cracker Somalia than some multicultural anarcho-tyranny with high GDP
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The wide ziggurats of Blade Runner's future are the most dated part of the setting. Peter Lamborn Wilson in his last interview recognised London's Shard and NYC's Steinway Tower as the architecture of our future:
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It's hilarious the "it" DSA guy these days got a Totenkopf tattoo on his chest. After a lifetime of being called a "Fascist" by the urban menial service class DSAoid for being an ML, this is particularly gross and depressing but it makes perfect sense. History repeats itself as farce then tragedy.
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An essay from 1976 that predicted that the boomers obsession with themselves would end in fascism
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Oh I see you’re only allowed to be patriotic as an American Intellectual if a European gives you permission first.
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If you liked Bucees before a german guy said it was cool you were MAGA but now it’s ok and socdem too.
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You know Pierre is a “Gothic Romance” because it begins in June & the inciting incident for the story is in August, the death of the Summer, the beginning of Autumn, which is the entrance into tragedy. It is about “the death of summer.” This is how literature works.
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Everyone agrees “Moby Dick.” Actually.
There never was a Great American Novel, only a thousand failed attempts.
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1000 years from now it will be “Moby Dick” & everything else written by an American will be considered secondary.
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With Moby Dick, Melville became a peer of Shakespeare. If there is an “American Shakespeare” it is Melville alone.
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Notice how the notion is now about “lived experience” & the implied “memoir” like facility of the novel & not the notion that a great american novel will be “experimental” or “revolutionary” in any formal manner engaging with the canon. Nobody cares about literature as literature anymore— they care about “privileging specific points of view.” Maybe actually the next great american novel can only be written by someone who worked for Anthropic— Pynchon worked for Raytheon— maybe “point of view” matters less than holistic knowledge of the actual material america that we exist within on a formal level— not from a “standpoint” as content within it, but like, “economically” from where the planning is done. The reason so many great 20th century authors worked in advertising— advertising was how America ruled the world. The real horror to them would be actually not an MFA guy or gal, but a TECH BRO writing the great american novel. Or even— gasp— a finance bro! Maybe the stereotypical “victim of the system” has less understanding of it than a “class traitor” — & is more likely to produce marketable schlock & commodotize their “authorial integrity”— maybe great literature is more likely to come from a “downwardly mobile aristocrat” than from a “real victim of the system man.” No no no. That’s heresy now. Unless your abuela was taken by ICE, you can never write the great american novel.
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The next great American novel is going to be written by someone the literary world would never take seriously, and that’s exactly why it will be a masterpiece. Nobody with a MFA from a fancy school, a book deal, an agent, a trust fund can write this era of America. It’s not possible. All they can do is stand outside and describe it with pretty words. It’ll come from somebody who lived the last 20 years of this country from inside its throat. They won’t have to describe anything because they’ve been breathing it, eating it, surviving it, and begging it for mercy. That’s the ONLY next great American novel worth reading. If it’s you, don’t stop.
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Ironically her anti-mfa mfa stance is the institutional stance now & it was cultivated explicitly to counter the literature of “downwardly mobile aristocracy” revealing the mysteries to the people. The real is idk “kmart realism” — a simulacrum of “what things seem like”— no “the real” is not heavily guarded secrets of the powerful. Go read your stories about middle class divorces & poor people struggling to get by in high mimetic detail but please DO NOT READ WILLIAM GADDIS.
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Yo unless you write a book about what it’s like to be you, an uber driver addicted to fentanyl, you will never really *get it* man. That’s real. That’s what’s real. The uber driver fent addict who gets better & writes a book about it & becomes a celebrity & starts a charity ngo bro that’s ART
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