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I finished Moby Dic a couple of days ago. Next i’ll pick up Pale Fire by Nabokov. I started reading that book a few months ago and stoped after the poem because i was reading it before sleep and couldn’t focus well. Even though I still remember what happened and took a few notes, I decided to start from the beginning again.
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Sun and Steel, pretty interesting. Maybe its the translation, but Mishima seems a bit pretentious tbh. Also just finished A Happy Death. I like Camus a lot, Algiers is a comfy setting.
I read an article yesterday that the Goose made the baseline test scene in blade runner himself, and its from Pale Fire. Pretty neat
https://cohost.org/mcc/post/178201-the-baseline-scene
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The only reason these sentences didn't cause me to immediately disregard the blogger's opinion was that I'd already disregarded it for being a woman.
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Pretty good chance that its a woman (male), but I guess you can safely ignore it either way
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Either it's a woman (hole) and her opinion can be discarded or it's a man trying to be a woman (modern) which is a good reason to discard his opinion.
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Mishima was absolutely pretentious as frick, both in prose and in real life.
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Just gave a quick check on his wikipedia page. Holy shit
, the guy was a living meme 
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reading about his personal life is what got me into his writing. A Japanese body builder, probably kinda gay, and wanted to reinstall the emperor and sudokud himself when he failed. dude rocked
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Now i’m super curious about his books, and it makes me wish i knew japanese
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Mishima's whole deal is grandiose passages on the philosophy of beauty.
Great author but can very easily reach pretentious levels in his books.
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The baseline was so great, I’m surprised it was written by Gosling props to him because it makes a lot of sense in the context of the movie.
John Shade claimed seeing the tall white fountain during a near death experience after a heart attack, then he finds out in the newspaper about a woman who saw the white fountain during a NDE. He goes after the woman, hopeful about the existence of an afterlife only to be disappointed as it was a different hallucination. It parallels to K believing he’s human only to find out his memories were indeed fake and he’s just a replicant.
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He's not just a himbo
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