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Gott versprach sich, als er den Menschen schuf.
God misspoke when he created the human being.
—Elias Canetti
Je edler ein Ding in seiner Vollkommenheit, desto grässlicher in seiner Verwesung.
The nobler a thing in its perfection, the more hideous it will be in its decomposition.
—Moses Mendelssohn, quoting a ‘Hebraic writer’
Dedicated to Joseph Suglia
Thanks to D.H. Lawrence, Roland Topor, J.G. Ballard, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, Martin Amis, Paul Valéry, Daphne du Maurier, Will Self, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Gore Vidal, John Wyndham, Richard Matheson, John Milton, Ambrose Bierce, Georg Trakl, Witold Gombrowicz, Henrik Ibsen, Georges Perec, Roald Dahl, Elias Canetti, Frank Wedekind, Epictetus, H.L. Mencken, Arthur Schnitzler, Michel Leiris.
Reference is made to “Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor” by Sylvia Plath, “Der Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats, “Decorative Art in America” by Oscar Wilde, “Voyages” by Hart Crane, and the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.
Copyright 2019 by Joseph Suglia
Thanks for sharing your insights and writings!
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Would you like a physical copy of the novel? Joseph
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thanks for these words
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Incredibly wonderful.
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Wow, I am legitimately interested in this book. I’ll have set aside some cash to grab it.
Also, it stuns me that you would follow me, thanks very much!
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Save your money, my friend! I will send you a copy of the book for free. Here is what you would do: 1.) Read the first four tables (chapters) at table41thenovel.com (here). 2.) Write an Amazon.com review based on these tables. 3.) Write me, and let me know what you did: table41thenovel@yahoo.com 4.) As soon as I receive your physical mailing address, a copy of the book will be in the mail, heading toward you. Joseph
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this is the most brilliant thing i have ever read in my total life
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