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Books Acquired, 1.25.2012 (Malcolm Lowry, Paul Auster, and William Gaddis)
I go to the bookstore once a week, whether I need books or not, which I really don’t. This week, I picked up a book I’ve already read, Lowry’s late-modernist classic Under the Volcano, simply because I...
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“Our Eruptions”— Nietzsche
Our Eruptions. Numberless things which humanity acquired in its earlier stages, but so weakly and embryonically that it could not be noticed that they were acquired, are thrust suddenly into light long...
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Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s Antipodal Odyssey of Despair
Most of Malcolm Lowry’s dense, depressing novel Under the Volcano takes place over the course of November 2nd, 1938, the Mexican Day of the Dead. Like a reticent, dour Virgil, Lowry guides the reader...
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Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s antipodal odyssey of despair
Most of Malcolm Lowry’s dense, depressing novel Under the Volcano takes place over the course of November 2nd, 1938, the Mexican Day of the Dead. Like a reticent, dour Virgil, Lowry guides the reader...
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