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Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
has its issues but excellent & important piece on waste theory / dirt & filth in colonial rhetoric. pair with mary douglas!
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
reading this one certainly receives the impression that Lichtenberg was a weird little guy
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
neato stw ; not attempting that hamnet-y period-appropriate prose & Idon't mind at all
Train Dreams (Granta Editions) by Denis Johnson
johnson serve, a becoming-animal text, who knew, follow w / Nightwood or some such.. but I think I like this more
Dream of No One But Myself by David Bradford
rich & challenging but I enjoyed myself, a cartography ..
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
lovely little jaunt & local as it gets for me... origin of horny 4 pirate romance. one truly excellent line on the penultimate page