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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 1h

#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....

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 1h

#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....

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 1h

#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....

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 2h

Fortune Teller.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 3h

#LászlóKrasznahorkai
Nobel Prize for Literature 2025

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 4h

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
As I have no soul, my mother says, my son therefore represented me as headless and bodiless…she's only a mother after all…she's no woman at all, mother is the third sex…

#EmilAlzamora
Museum Of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, FL

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 1d

Finished #HowtoSetaFireandWhy
#JesseBall

My mom...one day she left her body and I have never seen her again…the shitty little cells that cluster together to muster up in sum total the person I used to know are now clustering in some inferior way and the person I know cannot ever be found.

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 1d

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

He fell silent…But if he hadn't fallen silent, that still wouldn't have prevented the Holocaust.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 2d

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
Publication day, woke up and it was waiting for me. Thank you Jacksonville Public Library.

“Open to all.”
#jacksonvillepubliclibrary

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 2d

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
"Oh my! Is that for me?"
"Thought you'd never notice."
A pause…
“Maybe it's the time of night a girl needs something to hold on to."
"Go ahead, it won't mind."
"Oh, of course that'd be only one extra problem for you…easy in and out…”
"Who said easy?"

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 2d

#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon

“Pineapples come and pineapples go…this isn't just daydreaming through the Depression for a change…guarantee you there's money in this…”
…Hicks tries to keep the doubts out of his face…
"Too bad about my mattress…over legal capacity…bills hanging out…you understand-"

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 2d

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

When I once asked him why he so likes going on walks, he said: to disappear into the landscape.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 3d

#Audition
#KatieKitamura

I opened the box…Perhaps my reactions were in some ways secondhand or performed-the gasp of delight, for example-but the feeling they were designed to express was sincere….

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 3d

Woodcutters
by Thomas Bernhard

Brown cover with Woodcutters a novel by Thomas Bernhard in blocky print.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 3d

#SleeplessNights
#ElizabethHardwick

Judith was quiet, contemplating the ten plagues. Is she an Egyptian or an Israelite? Is she the carrier or receiver of plagues?

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 4d

#Underworld
#DonDeLillo

“You have a boo-boo, Klara."
"You can't kiss it, so go away."
"I don't want to kiss it.I want to lick it,"Jack said.
"Does someone live…very curious…across the street there."
"…I think it's an office."
"I would love to get a job there."
"Import-export."
"I could do either."

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 5d

#Underworld
#DonDeLillo

She realized she'd been seeing Mick Jagger's mouth everywhere she went…Maybe it was the corporate logo of the Western world, the leer and pout…she said, "I think everything that everybody's eaten in the last ten years has gone into that mouth."

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 5d

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

I speak Satan's name, a cross appears before me…the cross grows larger with each utterance…it's a compulsion…I utter Satan's name once more, the cross is…closer to me…I enter into the cross. I hang from the cross…I feel a kind of Schadenfreude, no….

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 5d

Finished #SleeplessNights
#ElizabethHardwick

I have always, all of my life, been looking for help from a man. It has come many times and many more it has not. This began early…The predator's first gift…was to reveal early to us the tangled nature of bribery. This at least was a lasting lesson.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 6d

#HowtoSetaFireandWhy
#JesseBall

There was still the question of if they let girls in the Arson Club. I could imagine some bullshit misogynist nonsense governing this also. My aunt was always telling me-never accept any privileges that are for girls, because it is only half the coin.

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 6d

#Underworld
#DonDeLillo

“We don’t indulge ourselves in cheap and easy delusions, Sims.”
“Cheap and easy.”
“Am I right? You and I. We don't believe that what is behind an event is so organized and sinister that we have to make a science out of it.”

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 6d

#Underworld
#DonDeLillo

“What's the secret about Greenland?"
"First, does it exist? Second, why does it keep changing its size and its location?”

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 6d

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

Tell me something about Mommy and Daddy, I would tell the six-year-old…Do they treat you pretty nice…Are you happy at home? The child knows all too well what "home" is, but “happy"? Happy is when you've got no worries, I say. The child gives me a blank look.

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 7d

Finished #SolarBones
#MikeMcCormack

ancient of days…setting His square and dividers to the void…the Creator, not to be confused…with the enfeebled version who snookered Himself…and had to take out a contract on His own son
thought they were one and the same you'd be surprised how many believe
that

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 7d

WBUR BOSTON
#WBUR
#NPR

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