Stanlio

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Wassily Kandinsky: Punto, linea, superficie
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Wassily Kandinsky: Punto, linea, superficie
21 sep 17
“It is like a piece of ice within which a flame burns,” Kandinsky wrote in a letter in 1925, alluding to his painting.

But the same could be said of the book that he would publish a few months later, Point, Line, Surface, a capital and renewing text for the theory of art and not only for it. (from Adelphi)
William Faulkner: Le palme selvagge
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William Faulkner: Le palme selvagge
21 sep 17
Two stories narrated in alternating chapters that never intersect: that of the two lovers who flee from society to enclose themselves in their exclusive relationship and who, in the attempt to terminate a pregnancy, end up self-destructing; and that of the inmate who, during the great flood of the Mississippi, is sent in search of a pregnant woman clinging to a partially submerged tree, finds her, delivers the baby, brings them both to safety, and then, instead of fleeing, returns to the monastic society of the penitentiary. (cit. Adelphi)
  • Stanlio
    21 sep 17
    Milan Kundera: "Beethoven's Sonata Op. 111 makes me think of Faulkner's Wild Palms, where a love story alternates with the tale of an escaped convict, two subjects that have nothing in common, not a character, and not even any perceptible affinity of motives or themes: a composition that cannot serve as a model for any other novelist, that can exist just once, that is arbitrary, not recommendable, unjustifiable – and it is unjustifiable because behind it lies an es muß sein that renders any justification superfluous."
William S. Burroughs: La macchina morbida
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William S. Burroughs: La macchina morbida
20 sep 17
The title "The Soft Machine" refers to the human body, and the theme of the book is how certain mechanisms of control invade its existence. The style echoes that of Naked Lunch, which was published two years earlier. The author has included an appendix with accounts of his own morphine abuse, as a sort of metabolic disease from which he eventually managed to escape. (quoted from wiki)
  • Stanlio
    20 sep 17
    The world that many identify with the scenarios of Blade Runner had already been sketched years earlier, and with more venomous insinuations, by William Burroughs, especially in The Soft Machine.
    It is a world in between the organic and the inorganic, where drugs – all sorts of drugs – serve as the universal glue, and paranoia, with its tendency to find in everything – and primarily in the minds of individuals as well as in society – some perverse agent of control, constitutes the lingua franca, the only language in which larval characters can understand each other. (cited from Adelphi)
  • nes
    20 sep 17
    Philip Dick is also about drugs, a lot of them, but drugs are not the theme. Drugs serve to develop the theme, which is: "Do I exist? Am I alive? What is existence, what is life?" (quote from Someone Who Has Read Dick)
  • Stanlio
    20 sep 17
    by Philip K. Dick I must have some ebooks, and sooner or later I’ll dive into them...
  • nes
    20 sep 17
    Haven't you read Ubik? Repent, be ashamed, etc... and MAKE AMENDS.
  • Stanlio
    20 sep 17
    Well, as long as He's alive and we're dead, what's the rush...?
  • nes
    20 sep 17
    ah ok, you read it...
  • Stanlio
    20 sep 17
    No, but I will reserve the right to do it soon, (I just glanced at wiki...) he he
  • mrbluesky
    20 sep 17
    yes, but hehe I can say it only myself
  • Stanlio
    20 sep 17
    ooooh, hu hu...
  • mrbluesky
    20 sep 17
    HeHe
William S. Burroughs: La scimmia sulla schiena
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William S. Burroughs: La scimmia sulla schiena
20 sep 17
"Junkie" is the original title; Burroughs rationally and objectively annotates his experience as a drug addict in general. As a doctor and an anthropologist, he begins writing Junkie in Mexico City, where he stayed from 1948 to 1950, attending the University of Mexico on a scholarship for research on Aztec history and codices, the language, and Mayan archaeology. He had been using heroin and morphine since his time in New York and New Orleans, buying them legally with regular medical prescriptions (at the time, these drugs were also sold at pharmacies) or on the black market.
William S. Burroughs: Pasto nudo
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William S. Burroughs: Pasto nudo
20 sep 17
The title "Naked Lunch" was an idea of Jack Kerouac who took a phrase from a poem titled "On the Work of William Burroughs" by his friend Allen Ginsberg. It is a book with seemingly nonsensical and unrelated sentences; in reality, the underlying theme of the work is the control that the State can exert over individuals' minds. (source: wiki)
William S. Burroughs: Le ultime parole di Dutch Schultz
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William S. Burroughs: Le ultime parole di Dutch Schultz
20 sep 17
It is based on the life, or more precisely the death, of the American criminal Dutch Schultz, linked to the so-called Jewish syndicate. (cit. wiki)

In this film screenplay, the last words of Dutch Schultz come to life, the former owner of a speakeasy in the 1920s and later the founder of a beer empire.
Wounded at 10:20 PM on October 23, 1935, he dies twenty hours later.
A police stenographer records everything Dutch says at his bedside, about 1200 words.
The last words of Dutch Schultz comprise an inspired delirium.
Rarely has the sense of life and death been rendered in such a dramatic way. (cit. sugarcoedizioni.it)
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