Writing vast books is a laborious and impoverishing madness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
Introduction to 1941 ed. of The Garden of Forking Paths
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steerpike
4 months ago
Wow I'd never hear of tristano, very cool
tinyfriend
4 months ago
Good fucking list. I also nominate Tristano and that one George Perec book that doesn’t contain the letter e.