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Thanks for the suggestion on Eco. I picked up a few books by Fernando Pessoa too.
by youngbenny 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion on Eco. I picked up a few books by Fernando Pessoa too.
- gruseom 13y agoWait, how'd you get to Pessoa from there?! Pessoa is fascinating. I believe it was he who wrote: Poets pretend They pretend so well They even pretend They suffer what they suffer. ... something that lodged itself in my brain years ago and never left. Pessoa wrote under countless pseudonyms. He is like Kierkegaard in that respect. You might like Fear and Trembling, in fact, based on your list.
- youngbenny 13y agoPessoa created his own worlds. Reminds me of Henry Darger. Check out IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL if you haven't seen it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzzirIP0No http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzzirIP0No.
- gruseom 13y agoThanks; I've run across his stuff tangentially a few times but not seen that film. You might like Gormenghast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series) Wyndham Lewis's novels, especially the Human Comedy that he wrote at the end of his life, are something I've always been meaning to get to. It's hard to tell if they're meaningful or impenetrable.