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There is a legend of a book questionnaire.

  • You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

    I assume this is about importance. Preservation. Uh, I'm thinking The Sun Also Rises. Let the great father of American Modern literature survive and prosper.

  • Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

    No. I really can't see how. The closest I could get would be Emma in Madam Bovary when played by my girl. Of course that's just because I like nice girls who slash their crotches with glass.

  • The last book you bought is:

    Shit... uh... probably The Divine Invasion by PKD.

  • The last book you read:

    Ugh... *visions of The Onion headline from a few months ago "Man on Bus very obviously reading The Crying of Lot 49. But Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49... on my flight on Friday... to Southern California... to attend a conference for defense contractors... after suffering horrific mail service from UPS.

    There is a level of irony in life that makes fiction seem pointless.

  • What are you currently reading?

    Richard Neupert A History of the French New Wave Cinema

  • Five books you would take to a deserted island.

    This one is difficult. Given the unlimited amount of time I'd think of taking Finnegan's Wake but I realize that there'd be no way for me to read it without taking another 50 books. So:

    • Kafka The Trial The perfect book. It achieves a fervent hypnosis. I feel numb. At the points where it battles with incompleteness, the choice almost seems deliberate. It breathes into the frustration of the story. If this was so, then Kafka wrote the first Post-Modern novel. Regardless, it is without fault.
    • Brett Easton Ellis American Psycho I love this book. The passages between are the ones that intrigue me most. The flatness of his voice confuses lay readers. Knowing it you find exceptionally drawn characters written with a single phrase. The passages between the violence, like open spaces between slats on a picket fence, are my favorite part.
    • Homer The Odyessy Basically would teach you how to get off a desert island. And how not to get turned into a pig by a love mad Sorceress. Odysseus is the first anti-hero. I'd open this and think of my youth and my father reading to me.
    • Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow You have the time, right? Worth charting out like in scattered dirt scrawl.
    • Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra I think you'd need some religious literature. Infinitely deconstructable.

I'm such an elitist tool (esp. considering this was written on my Powerbook, listening to my Hecate and Remarc discs ripped to my IPod). Oh well. I guess I'm going to have to live with myself being a fucking Culture Ogre.

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