Oh you.
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That has to be Shakespeare by a wide margin. Single book is the harder question.
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I think it would be Nietzsche for me. The Bard sends me to sleep.
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I'd have to second Nietzsche here too
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as Harold Bloom said of Zarathustra, "Trying to live as though it is perpetually morning is a very dangerous aesthetic quest." (N is amazing, the sharpest critic, but as one's sole course it would be emaciating...)
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Fanged Noumena, fosho
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When you gonna start reading 'The Thirst for Annihilation'?
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as soon as I finish his PhD thesis
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Oh, I got a scan of it too. How is it? Isn't "Narcissism and Dispersion" basically a condensation of all its most interesting bits?
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I thought so, and I'm halfway through and it's probably a very early version of everything that followed (much of nrx very much included), so I guess that short chapter is but a teaser.
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it got a hook on me, I was thinking of going Templexity -> TfA > PhD. but made the mistake of peeking into it.
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All just shows many varying interesting paths arriving and delving into someone's work. I basically got to TfA and xenosystems independently (tho it's all a little hazy now), so those were my gates.
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Nietzsche.
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Seconded
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Easy, the holy spirit
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Pynchon
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What text would you suggest?
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depends on what your’e interested in. but whether theory/fiction, id start near the beginning, the work of fire (a book of essays on literature, fairly accessible), thomas the obscure. the later stuff, in which at a certain point genre seems to disappear, is very, very difficult
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I'm curious about your passion for this thinker - of all you may have chosen, why Blanchot? I'd feel privileged by your response.
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“Time, time: the step not beyond that is not accomplished in time would lead outside of time, without this outside being intemporal, but there where time would fall, fragile fall, according to this "outside of time in time" towards which writing would attract us, were we allowed
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having disappeared from ourselves, to write within the secret of the ancient fear.” This is from the first page of The Step Not Beyond, a book of fragments, aphorisms. His oeuvre is replete with these sorts of written enigmas, with which one could grapple for a lifetime.
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Thank you! Looking forward to it. My research topic is surrealism and the notion of "experimental knowledge". Blanchot comes up in some of the secondary reading, but I wasn't sure how to dip in. I really appreciate this.
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read the essay from work of fire, “reflections on surrealism”
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