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Chris Klein
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Chris Klein
@cklein421
husband; father of three boys; reader; philosopher; educator
Silver Spring, MD
Joined May 2010
- That’s all it takes to sell me a book
For the record: the most demanding, experimental maximalist novel that I’ve read in the past few years was The End of August by Yu Miri (translated by @wrongsreversed ). Dozens of stylistic devices, three languages, ghosts, the author is a character, etc. - “When playing the game of writing, [Calvino] writes, ‘one of the combinations obtained— through the combinatorial mechanism itself, independently of any search for meaning, or effect on any other level—becomes charged with an unintended meaning or unforeseen effect… [1/2]
- Finished this one today. Stunned and shattered. “I fill up a page: with silence”
- Thought I had picked up enough for a full refresh of the little free library. Thought wrong. #fosterbrodernism
