I have about 3 books sitting on my bedside table but I haven’t been able to finish a single one. I still haven’t finished 1Q84, a book I feel like I’ve had forever; I’m only halfway through The Marriage Plot, and I’ve just started Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin. So far, I’ve...
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Dolphins were Monkeys
Alex Garland’s The Tesseract (which I’ve borrowed from the library) is too good. I prefer it to The Beach, even. And no, I’m not biased just because the story is set in Manila. Reading it is like watching a movie. So forgive me, but I’m going to quote. This is the way it is. Galaxies...
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Because she had a waterlily in her left lung
“THE MANAGEMENT gave Colin plenty of money – but it was too late. Everyday he had to go and see people. THey gave him a list and he had to bring bad tidings a day before they were going to happen. Everyday he went out into the crowded streets or into society. He went up...
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Prealable de l’action foudroyante
“This is what accounts for the strange and characteristic mythology of the zombi. Everything is zombi. Be watchful, be suspicious of everything. Their charming or reassuring forms? A snare! A trap! Beware the crab limping down the street, the rabbit making off in the night, the over-friendly and over-seductive woman: zombi, zombi, I tell you!...
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At the Window | A la Fenetre
“I have not always had this certainty, this pessimism which reassures the best among us. There was a time when my friends laughed at me. I was not the master of my words. A certain indifference. I have not always known well what I wanted to say, but most often it was because i had...
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Stolichnaya Vodka on my desk on a Monday morning
A tiny bottle of Russian vodka. I like little bottles, they look so nice and dignified. Especially coloured ones. It’s beside my PC. It looks satisfied there. Saturday night halfway through a game of Pictionary at Gari’s annual CAM party, I heard a sophomore say, “Print is dead.” If print is dead, then why did...
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Helpful Elevators
Excerpt from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: “Yeah, yeah,” said Zaphod as the elevator doors opened. “Hello,” said the elevator sweetly, “I am to be your elevator for this trip to the floor of your choice. I have been designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to take you, the visitor, into these...
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