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saddleblasters 2 days ago

Update #2: I read another book by Houellebecq https://saddleblasters.com/trades/map

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siqu 2 days ago

The Quiet American (´・ω・`) (i dont have an email, so feel free to ignore)

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readingproject 1 day ago

I love this idea but I'm too overwhelmed with long term projects and other books on my TBR pile to participate

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saddleblasters 1 day ago

@siqu Ok! In return I suggest Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald if you haven't read it. Your writing often has a similar feel to his narration.

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swiftred 1 day ago

Regarding the micro-saddle, I really enjoy what you said about indulging in the fantasy aspect and its role and disconnect it has from reality

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suttaslime 1 day ago

"I’ve wrapped myself in an artifact of another person’s life" - i've always loved the feeling of wearing someone else's clothes, and i think this is a great way of putting it. my childish brain imagines it like an alternate costume for a video game character, or a superhero, or something; like when the black power ranger dons the green ranger's chestplate. it feels cool to adorn myself with a small part of my friends

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saddleblasters 1 week ago

I translated an interview with the noise musician Shu Ride: https://saddleblasters.com/translation/shuride

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saddleblasters 1 week ago

I took suboptimalism up on his book trade offer: https://saddleblasters.com/trades/elementary_particles

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saddleblasters 1 week ago

Also, in hopes of doing this again with someone else, I made a page for future book trades: https://saddleblasters.com/trades/

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saddleblasters 1 week ago

My plan to strong arm you into writing something worked! I will have to add Wang Xiaobo to your Murakami vs. Houellebecq analysis at some point and make a three way venn diagram out of them, since he also exhibits many similarities and interesting differences...

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saddleblasters 1 week ago

Also you might have read it already, but Vonnegut's Bluebeard is another meditation on "what is art?" that specifically focuses on Pollock. I like to pair it with his earlier novel Deadeye Dick, narrated by the son of a failed painter.

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suboptimalism 1 week ago

haven't read either of those but i have read the one that came out right in between the two, galapagos...

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swiftred 2 weeks ago

I really enjoyed reading ‘On Waking’ !

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saddleblasters 2 weeks ago

I wrote an essay about noise performances I saw last year and poems I wrote about them: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/essays/noise_poetry

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daliwali 2 weeks ago

Chinese noise is crazy... i know about Merzbow, Masonna, Gerogerigegege, Les Rallizes Dénudés, ...but had not much clue about the Chinese noise scene.

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saddleblasters 2 weeks ago

I only really talked about the Shanghai scene in this essay. If you're curious about the Beijing scene, you can read Yan Jun's English language writing (though a lot of it is outdated): https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/contributors/yan-jun/yan-jun_which-hell-do-you-prefer_

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saddleblasters 1 month ago

Added a section for short pieces that don't fit what "records of a saddle" has come to represent.

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thanks for pointing out the delineation of xiang3 vs think. it's tempting to draw conclusions about what the two languages presume is primarily on your mind (desires vs beliefs). in general i think it's really fun to observe how the two different language (families) draw lines around concepts and group them into words -- thinking/speaking in mandarin changes how i think about things compared to english.
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sorbier 1 month ago

that said i think (haha, jue2de) that the average mandarin word performs more roles than the average english word, which renders mandarin more figurative/conceptual broadly. apologies for stating it so definitively though -- agree that it's totally my subjective impression.

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