Zach Campbell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Zach Campbell

"Sanskrit poetics applied the theory of karmic traces to the act of reading. One responds to a poem because it speaks directly to one's experience, but that experience need not have occurred in this life." - Eliot Weinberger

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I sent this passage from Norman Rush's Mating to a friend but maybe some of you will enjoy this too. https://t.co/R99UJxOvU4

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I suggest celebrating Star Wars Day, if you are so inclined, by watching George Lucas' far-and-away undisputed masterpiece, THX 1138 https://t.co/QkXiE0Z1Fq

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I remember one transatlantic flight at 22 when I read Heart of Darkness & The Baron in the Trees in one go, and the impression of the reading experience proved stronger than any inconveniences of air travel (which of course is usually a hassle). https://t.co/r6AAkv9YPM

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Educating myself on the latest tech trends, i.e., reading Hugh Kenner's 1968 book The Counterfeiters "Swift's age was groping toward a principle familiar to ours, that you can be said to understand a process thoroughly if you know how to instruct a machine to carry it out" https://t.co/VWLsqtqZxR

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Helen DeWitt's The English Understand Wool is an incredibly entertaining one-sitting book - highly recommended https://t.co/inDROiLVeV

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"And are you dutiful to your father?" "My father is dead, Freiherr. He was a plasterer." "I did not ask you that. Have you known what it was to have sad losses in your family life?" - Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

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"If you could describe your storm; but you could not. You can never convey in words the utmost in experience. Whatever is given you to live, you alone can live, and re-live, and re-live, till it is gasped out of you." - Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm