Does anyone know the music that begins at 18:16 ?

Excellent video and comparison of Ligotti with Schultz, your "rzeczywostość zdegradowana" sounded great 👍

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On finishing the book I searched online for an analysis that would explain the way it weaves its magic. At last I found it. I found much of it delightfully playful and funny which makes for another destabilising contrast with the horrors of the house.

This was a wonderful video! I read cinnamon shops a few months ago, and I kept on feeling a ligotti atmosphere. The quay brothers films do a great job connecting--probably unintentionally--Bruno Schulz to Thomas Ligotti. Thanks for making this!

I always love a good bookshelf backdrop. Though I'd kill for one more level of quality settings, there are some gems indeed in that Danielewski to Isis frustum.

Love this! By the way, i just found your Podcast and was wondering why it ended so early, will it continue in the future? Really enjoy your opinions, you are one of the most passionate voices on literature out there!

Very underrated channel and a great video 👍🏽

Just started reading this. While there's some eye rolling Gen-X "literary masculinity" that permeates the book, it's enjoyable. Reminds me of the interactive books I had growing up. Realized there was definitely nods to concrete poetry, and had wondered if anyone had made this connection. Liked the review.

this video is so beautiful.

❤

Classical Gas slowed right down?

Come on, Sherds! Do us another video. It's wet as a duck's arse in Blighty and my spirits are damp. Make it about spooky, spectral stuff-- you do that well!

Love your content man.

Beautiful. Is that a telecaster?

Nice

❤

My favourite book tuber

Love the vibe!

Looks like I’m due my annual rewatch every sherds video

This is such a great channel, Thank you Sherd. The Literary Sherpa!

seeing this late tonight, I was transported again to the shores of the Island of Sherdstube, that unique place where story and place and haunting music come together in a most beautifully dissociative way. There is no other place online that truly allows what philosopher Byung-chul Han would call the art of lingering to be practised. Thank you again Sam.

"She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s - and I own a big building there - it’s no - I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world - sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"

Some more quality stuff

Love the guitar bits so much. In general your videography and music choice is great!

Reading list updated!!

Please don't take such a long break between videos again

Just this morning, I was thinking it seemed time for a new sherd to drop! I've been drawn to Japanese women writers over the past few years, and Mieko Kawakami has become one of my favorite writers. I highly recommend her powerful novella Heaven. Been meaning to read Izumi Suzuki for a while now. Excited to check out the authors you mentioned. I wonder if you've read or are familiar with the novel Out by Natsuo Kirino. It is a feminist noir crime/horror novel that goes about as dark as a novel can go. Unlike any other story I've encountered. Really one to check out when you're in the mood for a twisted, intense Japanese crime novel. Thanks for these meditations!

As always a highly inspiring, beautiful video. Thank you so much for this. Greetings from New Zealand.

"a taste-making uncle"!

Well, you've done it again with another lovely atmospheric video that propels me towards book stores in search of your recommendations. I didn't know before I watched this that I must read Japanese women writers. Now I do. Thank you very much.

Fantastic effort here on putting this together. Best wishes.

Thank you!

Oh man, just what I needed.

MY GOD ! I have just started Watching the video …and it’s going to take a long time to finish …I will finish it in two or three sittings …but I am hooked right from the start ! The visuals …the setting …your beautiful country…and your engaging insightful words …everything is so captivating! Congratulations on making such a long video on the women writers of Japan ..I am very intrigued and excited to watch this . All my best wishes and love ( I will comment here again after finishing the video piece )

Have you try to tackle the two big Monogatari?

Revisiting your videos again and again. They are multilayered and full of amazing multidisciplinar connections. Thank you!!!

Might just’ve been reading a bit too much Ligotti, mate. Just kidding. I feel this too, definitely. I still hit books all the time that I absolutely love, and which open my skull up and eggbeat my brains deliciously. (Been bingeing PKD this summer, and a few others-Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach,’ Robert L. Forward’s ’Dragon’s Egg,’ Evelyn Piper’s ’Bunny Lake is Missing,’ etc.) Honestly, when I need a transformative literary experience, I turn to Alan Moore. Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Voice of the Fire, Jerusalem…his prose is intricate, elegant, eloquent, lush and luxuriant, rhythmic to the point nearly of independent life sometimes, pulsing in the mind. Big fan of this channel, and what you’re doing. Great work, guy.

Beautiful. It’s heartening to hear other readers espouse this view. Love the idea of literature as an antidote to some of the invisible intellectual ruts of modernity. Great video!

Love the channel! Curious on your thoughts of reading one book at a time vs reading two, three at the same time?

I feel that Im being 🎉 lucky finding your channel here on youtube.

Please add subtitles too.

You look deeply disturbed by this book! I don’t think I’ll read it.

Keep coming back to ur channel, noticing that I had been unsubscribed btw, …..man, you’re becoming a national treasure I fear

Beautiful work as usual. Have you ever considered writing a fantasy novel yourself?

I've just been getting into "booktube." Despite being an avid reader for a while now, I didn't know there was such a community on here. Safe to say, I'm not too impressed by most, but you are very articulate, the production on your videos is great, and you say very interesting things, and have cool insights. Thank you. Love the ambient music you put too.