Wednesday, November 20, 2024
From Quoro--who is the most dissolute character in fiction--
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Patrick Bateman of American Psycho springs to mind. There is something quintessentially disquieting about the idea of a vicious murderer blending in to ordinary life so easily. Nobody likes to think they’re standing in line at the grocery store behind a serial killer.
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A Song of Ice And Fire may not go down in history as great literature, but I think Ramsay Bolton and Joffrey Lannister are both very disturbing characters, where it’s a relief when they finally die.
One could argue that Tywin Lannister should be added to that list, but what makes Ramsay and Joffrey so disturbing is their utter lack of concern for the rule of law and for conventional morality. Tywin was a cold-hearted brute but he was mostly law-abiding, and he cared what other people thought of him and his family.
Ramsay and Joffrey, on the other hand, didn’t give a damn what anybody thought, whether a thing was legal, or whether there would be consequences to an impulsive action. They were the embodiment of Freud’s Id — I want it, I want it now, and I don’t give a damn what people thing or whether there are consequences. Full stop.
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Young Alex of A Clockwork Orange is certainly a disturbing character. We may come to pity him later on, but this is someone who is also an unrepentant, manipulative, narcissistic, vicious brute who takes delight in seeing others suffer.
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She reminds me of Victor Hugo's daughter who drowned, weighed down by her skirts.
Her fiance died trying to save her.
Hugo was with his mistress.
Khin Aye Thett--I knew her since she was a child of 4 or 5--
Used to come with her parents. Dr Kyaw Thet was student of my father.
Both mother and father were poor parents.
Brilliant even as a child.
She used to sit with me on the steps of our open balcony, joking she always fell on her face because her forehead was so prominant.
When I came back from Poland, I invited her to a gathering.
She came beautifully dressed, her hair up in a French pleat.
She adnired the wooden brooch from Poland I was wearing.
Rumor was that her mother was in love with her boyrfriend--a poet whose name I have forgotten.
She didn't deserve to die.
RIP, Beautiful.
Kyi May Kaung
I went to the house which was opposite our Eco. Inst.--Aunty Mary sitting on the floor among all the floral offerings. I asked if Dr Kyaw Thet who was already overseas was coming.
She said, He's a coward.
He's not coming.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Poor Khin Aye Thet--committed suicide--my bro said she was a fan of Nietzsche--RIP--I saw her one week before at my house. How is it different from Nirvana--
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Review of new Marukami--Uncertain Walls--
https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls/
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I love Murakami--who cares what critics say--
I've been compared to Murakami.
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