Fellas, the correct score for the final #seatac footage is the Mishima closing, whose tilted note jump evokes a broken arrow, a solitary bird breaking away from the flock, beyond the countenance of the meekhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XMeY1RkWQ …
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Replying to @paul_hundred
The Mishima answer to "why did the chicken cross the road" remains my favorite literary parody:pic.twitter.com/MewQwu5x0H
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Replying to @Bugs_Meany
Haha that’s excellent - and reminds me I probably need to actually read the guy
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Replying to @paul_hundred
I've Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace, Runaway Horses, ~couple others, and they are all intensely narcissistic in similar way, but incredibly well-written. Very much worth reading.
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Replying to @paul_hundred
Yes. Its the most popular, and I think it manages to include most of the motifs that dominate his other books. Once you read that, everything else seems familiar. Its always about deeply-frustrated youth burning shit up in some orgasmic, destructive gesture of beauty
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Replying to @Bugs_Meany @paul_hundred
*which is why your comparison to the suicide-stunt-pilot was so perfect
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Book-wise, a young man stealing a plane is also the starting-off point of Ballard’s Unlimited Dream Company - a weird and wild masterpiece in its own imperfect way
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