Ed, have you read Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist? You will love it. An extreme socio-political prophecy that set the tone for the weird literature in America.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
I haven't, never heard of it before! Looking at the wiki article for it now and it looks like a must-read
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Evangelicals, Republicans, societal disintegration, you name it.
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Also ventriloquism and spontaneous combustion. Who doesn't like these literary devices other than clueless snubs?
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Spontaneous combustion is a longtime fave. When I was wee kiddo, during a family vacation, I watched a show about spontaneous human combustion. Spent the rest of the trip convinced I was going to explode at any moment, totally ruined the experience. 10/10
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It's the absolute holy grail of literature. I had a similar experience. One summer before going to junior high, I read Bleak House. That spontaneous combustion scene shook me with a thrill for macabre. I started reading everything about it for the rest of that summer.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @EBBerger
Carwin, the biloquist ---> Mortiloquist
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if "evangelicals, republicans, [and] social disintegration" aren't part of the Mortiloquist calculus I (and many others, no doubt) will be sorely disappointed
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uh oh, it's called a barbarian interpretation of western philosophy for a reason.
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