September 8, 2012

∞ :: ‘fast machine’ by elizabeth ellen

I think I’m too old or just not cool enough or something to understand… well, any of this, but I think it’s positive and they’re essentially telling you that you need to buy yourself a copy right now, or if you already have it, you should buy it for at least two of your friends as a gift?

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‘fast machine’ by elizabeth ellen // short flight long drive books, 2012

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books like this one and we realize the spectrum is wide & huge and our stupid ‘framework’ for ‘judging’ books or art or whatev seem ‘contrived’ when we compare something like a ‘90’ or ‘100’ to like Borges or something, what is going on, this is an impossible task, when authors create #QS at such a rapid rate, and then you get these short story collections, and then you get dense Cloud-Atlas-novels, taking on ‘big things’ and we’re just writing about the iNternet,

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