Notes #3 and #4

I have barely had time to write these past two weeks, though I have been fulfilling my reading goals. Thus, here are notes three and four. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë A classic, of course, and a regular appearance on “greatest novels of all time” lists. The novel is also the inspiration behind Kate Bush’s

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I read a lot of books in 2020 but I amassed so many more of them than I was able to read. Gifts, visits to the second-hand store, and occasional bursts of an unresistable urge to buy more dead trees: All of these things left me with an ever-growing pile of books. There’s plenty of

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The Medium is the Message. McLuhan’s famous phrase might have never been more fitting for describing a piece of literature than for Burroughs’ magnum opus. The novel is as beautiful as it is hideous, as indecipherable as it is expressive, but first and foremost it is absolutely insane. Naked Lunch is revolutionary, mainly for two