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V poignant words, Matt. Please pass along this troubling news to friends and colleagues of novelist and publisher Rick Harsch

Finished #Audition
#KatieKitamura

…all the times in the past when I had been comforted by Tomas…I could only see each of those instances as examples of capitulation, I had given in to his story…because it had been easier…because of his persuasiveness persuasion….one step removed from coercion.

Ducks, excellent.

#TheAutumnofthePatriarch
#GabrielGarcíaMárquez

…so far removed from the world that he himself did not realize that his fierce struggle to exist twice was feeding the contrary suspicion that he was existing less and less, that he was lying in a lethargy….

Susan Stamberg, a Longtime Voice of NPR, Is Dead at 87

Susan Stamberg, a Longtime Voice of NPR, Is Dead at 87 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

“There are three of us," Mateo says…”we were two from the start and…still are, you and you and I." I look at the third…”He is the second keeper that you are," Mateo says. "So, I'm guarding myself, watching myself," I say. "Doesn't everybody do that?" Mateo asks.

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
“…while the Hitlerboys would be cranked up to unnatural levels of speed…by the latest pills…some still under research at IG Farben.”

IG Farben,chemical manufacturer who aided Nazi war efforts.
#Gravity'sRainbow
#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes

#Underworld
#DonDeLillo

…there it was, suddenly unbuttoned and in the world…unyoked to the host, to the bearer, the wearer, and Rochelle was nervous because the boy did not have a rubber and Klara was nervous because the Japanese might invade China.

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

#D’Angelo

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
…death dances ever with us, it is the shadow rushing up ahead that we drag along behind us, that's beneath us….

#EmilAlzamora
Museum Of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, FL

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
What to make of the conversations around apport vs asport? Early on in the novel a gun and a woman goes missing.In chapter 22,there is a claim that bullets are asported away and counterfeit goods are referred to as "counterfeit apports".
Quantum physics meets the occult?

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

…Schattenfroh never written, but always only mediated…its white script is sacrosanct, the black script…overwrites it…Schattenfroh is to be deprinted with white ink…page by page, line by line, letter by letter.

WHAT?!

Loved The Employees by Ravn.

Loved this one. Good luck.

A 1920’s black and white picture of a car and a street with light glowing in the middle of the night.

Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon

We will meet again, with another book. Happy reading.

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
“…everybody knows by now what Hoover is…”
"…anybody knows how to fix the economy it ought to be him.Besides which…all those loudmouth Democrats…”
"Who'll keep doing what they want regardless of which of these two rich white guys gets in the White, did I say White House…”

#ThePastor
#HanneØrstavik

Yet they fought for something they believed in, something that mattered to them. They fought for something they had felt for so long. And they had been kept down for so long. Suddenly, in their own language, they had received the Word…That God would set free the oppressed.

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

The goal is freedom from the Word, which is exterior, the goal is the effect of the inner word….

…worried this latest Roosevelt if he gets in might decide to step out on his own, and even if he does revert to type after all, it might not be in time to stop the Red apocalypse that's got them spooked out of what they think of as their wits.”

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon

“The federals who had you in…likely just a front, OK? It's the outfit that's behind them, a nationwide syndicate of financial tycoons, all organized…against the forces of evil, namely everything to the left of Herbert Hoover. Worried about the next election…

And I forgot the obvious.

#LászlóKrasznahorkai
Nobel Prize for Literature 2025
Translators to English
#GeorgeSzirtes
#OttilieMulzet
#JohnBatki

#TheTrial
#FranzKafka

What sort of men were they…What office did they represent? After all,K. lived in a state governed by law,there was universal peace,all statutes were in force…He'd always tended to take things lightly,to believe the worst only when it arrived,making no provision for the future…

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

How can one go through something and, simultaneously, have gone in the opposite direction, without going in a circle…we must have paced out a palindrome toward its middle, for the space we are now entering proceeds from the opposite side of the former entrance.

#Audition
#KatieKitamura

…our life together-it hadn't been enough…years there had been the tacit understanding that I contained the threat to the marriage…years I had tamped down every impulse to stray…lived inside a straitjacket…But in the end, he was the first to tire of the marriage…

#TheMelancholyofResistance
#LászlóKrasznahorkai

'There is a war going on out there, and it's only worth waking to the dying night if you are prepared to be utterly ruthless; a war...that has no rules...in which to aim at anything but victory was pointless....

#Satantango
#LászlóKrasznahorkai

Either l've gone mad or, by God's mercy, this morning I have discovered that I am the wielder of mesmerizing power. I find I can control the flow of events around me using nothing more than words...Or I have gone mad....

#TheLastWolf
#LaszlóKrasznahorkai

...how could he explain how long ago he had given up the idea of thought, the point at which he first understood the way things were and knew that any sense we had of existence was merely a reminder of the incomprehensible futility of existence....

Fortune Teller.

#LászlóKrasznahorkai
Nobel Prize for Literature 2025