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JoyceCarolOates joyce/carol MY KITTY IS POINTED AT THE WORLD  1yr ago (image post) 850 thread views #166334

This is an actual poem from the current issue of The Paris Review :marseysnoo:

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https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7974/john-wick-is-so-tired-kyra-wilder

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>Have you ever been in an institution? trains.

>Do they keep you in a train? trains.

>When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? trains.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16826252156328168.webp

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and dreadfully distinct against the dark

a tall white fountain played

That's such a good scene

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>constant dramacel, you can pick up your marseybux

I love that movie. Last year I began reading pale fire up to the entirety of the poem and this reminds me I have to pick up that book again from the beginning this year. That “baseline” part is the guy who wrote the poem describing having a heart attack.

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I didn't even know it was from a book until I looked it up to make sure I was quoting it properly. It does make me a bit intrigued to read it.

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The book is super weird, without spoiling it is about a creepy stalker writing a commentary on a poem written by an English lit professor named John Shade who recently died, and whom he used to stalk. The poem has 999 lines and it narrates John shade live. The tall white fountain is supposed to symbolize the afterlife. Later he enthusiastically meets a woman who also had a near death experience who supposedly saw a white fountain only to be disappointed it was a different hallucination. Parallels to K believing he’s human only to find out he’s not. Definitely worth reading.

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I might try and find it, I've never read Nabokov's more - erm - famous work so I don't have any preconceptions.

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I never read Lolita either, but I’ll give it a try sometime in the future. Nabokov is considered a master of the “unreliable narrator”, so regardless of the book you should always take anything the narrator says with a huge grain of salt.

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Oh good that'll help with the schizophrenia

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