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i understood the origin of the list in general terms, and factored that in as i went through it weeding things out that i had read...but even so i am baffled that it seems only works written originally in english are included (except dosteovsky, bulgakov and tolstoy, if memory serves). ltr i found interesting when i was 15 and was reading it while being driven around on interminable sunday rides by my parents--but when i looked at it again a couple years ago, i found it...well...blech.
just in terms of stuff that i like--which isnt anything like a list of the greatest anything of all times obviously--i prefer anything by w.g. sebald or peter handke or alain robbe-grillet or michel butor or georges perec or raymond queneau or bruno schultz or vitkor pelevin, or jacques roubaud to anything on the list.
but it isnt my list.
and that's fine.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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