My impossible ones (Nietzsche)

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Portrait of Franz Kafka — Milton Glaser

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List with No Name #37

  1. Socrates
  2. Guy Debord
  3. Sylvia Plath
  4. David Foster Wallace
  5. Hunter S. Thompson
  6. Gérard de Nerval
  7. Tadeusz Borowski
  8. Spalding Gray
  9. Virginia Woolf
  10. Lucan
  11. Thomas Disch
  12. Vachel Lindsay
  13. Ernest Hemingway
  14. Yasunari Kawabata
  15. Paul Celan
  16. Seneca
  17. Heinrich von Kleist
  18. John Kennedy Toole
  19. Sarah Kane
  20. Breece D’J Pancake
  21. Gilles Deleuze
  22. Robert E. Howard
  23. Richard Brautigan
  24. Anne Sexton
  25. Stefan Zweig
  26. John Berryman
  27. Walter Benjamin
  28. Primo Levi
  29. Jerzy Kosinski
  30. Hart Crane
  31. Yukio Mishima

RIP Elmore Leonard

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RIP Elmore Leonard, 1925 – 2013

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“I Am Essentially Marxian” and Other Notes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Notebooks

  1. D. H. Lawrence great attempt to synthesize animal and emotional—things he left out. Essential pre-Marxian. Just as I am essentially Marxian.
  2. When Whitman said “Oh Pioneers” he said all.
  3. Byron’s mountains warm.
  4. Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
  5. Work out my hard luck season—my most productive seasons, etc
  6. Conrad’s secret theory examined.He knew that things do transpire about people. Therefore he wrote the truth and transposed it to parallel to give that quality, adding confusion however to his structure. Nevertheless there is in his scheme a desire to imitate life which is in all the big shots. Have I such an idea in the composition of this book?
  7. Conrad influenced by Man Without a Country
  8. No English painting because of their putting everything into words.
  9. List of Zelda’s faults and virtues as a writer.
  10. Chapter in slow motion.
  11. Right to Pretty heroines
  12. Tie up with Faulkner—Lord Fauntleroy.

–From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Notebooks.

Reading Rabelais — Jehan Georges Vibert