The wise words of Colson Whitehead, who actually is quite funny in my opinion. This makes me want to write my own novel.
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Nothingness
Charles Burns combines high school lifestyle and the idea of epidemic in his graphic novel Black Hole by narrating the experiences of several teenagers. Within the context of adolescence, Burns illustrates the spreading of “The Bug”, which is transmitted through sex. Black Hole inevitably draws a parallel between sex and intoxication — whether alcohol, LSD […]
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This is a very interesting article by The Economist on the real life scandal in Eastern China, which Dream of Ding Village is based on. Seeing as the blood business is a form of economic income, who else but The Economist could report on the scandal?
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Camus on Nihilism: He talks about The Possessed by Dostoyevsky and there is several similarities to our discussion of The Plague!
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