The Raketen-Stadt

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  • My dreams exceed my real life

    i have learned in the last year that a lot of authors attempt ot be GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ MEETS UMBERTO ECO MEETS JORGE LUIS BORGES FOR A SPRAWLING MAGIC SHOW but they're mostly overwrought

    i overuse the term (mentally) but can't think of another description: they try to be absurd scholars but it feels ungenuine, and the metafiction comes across as obviously non-obvious

    Like who?
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    kill living beings
    Odradek said:

    i have learned in the last year that a lot of authors attempt ot be GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ MEETS UMBERTO ECO MEETS JORGE LUIS BORGES FOR A SPRAWLING MAGIC SHOW but they're mostly overwrought

    i overuse the term (mentally) but can't think of another description: they try to be absurd scholars but it feels ungenuine, and the metafiction comes across as obviously non-obvious

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    the allcaps is a blurb for The Shadow of the Wind, which I've stopped reading because it's too damn clever

    the one i was thinking of was Dictionary of the Khazars, which I just finished. i'm not sure where to start. it's largely constructed from people speaking in discombobulated anecdotes, which I guess is okay if you read it in a mythic way rather than a modern novel way, but still kind of annoying as there is no psychological realism. the central point of events, a bet with devils about the power of the church 293 years after the Great Turkish War, is okay but hidden incompetently; the ending with a devil scrawling the date was unnecessary. the central point of events, the behavior of people reconstructing the projected Adam Kadmon from dreams, is okay but I've seen it too many times perhaps. The central point of events, the supposition that Serbs are an absurd people trying to destroy their culture in favor of those of foreigners, is just asininely nationalist
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    honestly The Shadow Of The Wind struck me as more dickensian (in terms of the arc of the plot in which everything ties back into and resolves itself very neatly) than anything else
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    sometimes I fear trying to become like Borges et al and failing spectacularly
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    Lee: nice bouncy-bounce
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    well the only dickens i've read is tale of two cities, probably, and i didn't like it that much.

    i'm just annoyed at this stupid thing about a stupid horny boy and his stupid pens, probably
  • edited 2014-05-18 18:53:01
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    "the central point of events, the behavior of people reconstructing the projected Adam Kadmon from dreams, is okay but I've seen it too many times perhaps"

    admittedly, this is a WAY overused plot
  • I don't like Dickens much either.

    I did rather like The Shadow Of The Wind, but more in a "Fun Light Afternoon Reading" sort of way than as the "Big Serious Artsy Novel" that it wants to see itself as, if that makes any sense.
  • edited 2014-05-18 18:58:09
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    yeah that's what i meant exactly! like if you want to write a novel that's just fun to read fucking do it, you don't need to also act like you're the second coming of blind argentinians.

    and when i read borges/whoever i never get a feeling of the book saying "LOOK HOW METAFICTIONAL I AM", it just kind of is

    admittedly, this is a WAY overused plot

    it's weird to explain but i ddi have something in mind there beyond my joke
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    all right then.

    perhaps one should just write what one naturally wants to write

    I guess...
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I have just been reading airport fantasy written by an anthropologist.

    It is pretty good.
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    sometimes I forget what "airport fantasy" means and think it means "fantasy about airports"

    YNTKT
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    Society is weird sometimes

    We never dwell on airports, half the time when food comes up it's not in a literal sense (e.g. The Men Who Would Be King referring to Steven Spielberg as an "Oreo cookie-lover", as it had earlier called him a "man-child")
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    Steven Spielberg is a man child? ONE OF US, ONE OF US
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    also Oreos are good
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    Steven Spielberg is a man child? ONE OF US, ONE OF US

    yes, and I'm pretty sure he's autistic too
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    not surprising
  • Anonus said:

    Steven Spielberg is a man child? ONE OF US, ONE OF US

    yes, and I'm pretty sure he's autistic too
    how come
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    He just acts like it...the book has an account of him playing with the wires on a piece of machinery while someone else was giving a speech on the same platform.
  • In the year 20XX.
  • A Robot named Imipolex, must face the toughest challenge of all.

    Adult life.
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    D:

    Where are the cheat codes
  • Sorry, cheat codes need to be entered before you start the game.
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    *pushes reset*
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  • My dreams exceed my real life

    image
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    so basically, every classic rock band is a character in Jo Jo's weird adventure
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    who are you to say which ones matter?
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    God save the Queen
    the fascist regime
    that made you a moron
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    I can't remember if I've posted this before, but oh well:

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    And now I know what the best vanity plate thingy is.

    Universal, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, all you guys can go home now
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But not COLUMBIAAAAA
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    Columbia too.
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    If I had an enormous fake bust I would totally do this

    image
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Why not make your own enormous fake bust?
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    I actually have on occasion THIS IS A SECRET
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh hey, me too!

    Let's be buddies
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    bosom buddies
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
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    do you want me to use yours as such?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I would like that, yes ^_^
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    everybody needs a bosom for a pillow

    yah
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I like how we're just The Powepuff Girls having a conversation
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    about powerpuffs
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    *gives Imi hugs*
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    *hugs*
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    moo
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