Goodbye America, Vol. 1

Nov 02, 2006 18:03

Without a beginning, and without an end, you're always starting in the middle of everything-And always, and impossibly, it seems that's where we are ( Read more... )

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thepossum November 3 2006, 06:41:02 UTC
So basically, you're fucked.

Yay for Taffahtain.

oh and Indiana says it still has your soul chained up in a back alley.

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the dude abides easyisboring November 3 2006, 23:43:25 UTC
here's some background: he always writes about indians from bombay who spent their young adult years in england, and have some sort of complex about being from two places at once, trying to get rid of one or the other (the man is a narcissist, everything's autobiographical)

"To the devil with this classical mishmash [frustration with mixtures of greek and roman architecture in new york city], Professor Solanka silently exclaimed. For a greater deity was all around him: America, in the highest hour of its hybrid, omnivorous power. America, to which he had come to erase himself. To be free of attachment and so also of anger, fear and pain. Eat me, Professor Solanka silently prayed. Eat me, America, and give me peace."

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