The Manhattan Project & Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai - translated by John Batki

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Just picked up “A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East,” from him…it’s breathtaking.

[@kolbeinngauti3971]

I remember the Cocoa Puffs Commercial where the bird is in a courtroom and he is saying to the judge that he cannot be found guilty because he is cocoo ( pleading insanity) and as I child I wondered ( and still do ) .. What was the crime that the bird committed. I mean it's a packed courtroom it must have been serious...

[@marcelhidalgo1076]

😂😂😂

[@LeafbyLeaf]

OK, this really just cracked me up!!!

[@Yasser-yf3vc]

love from iraq, thanks for always giving us the best recommendations

[@LeafbyLeaf]

Wow, thanks for taking a moment to say hello! All my best to you and yours! 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

[@jdfromparis6230]

Lunar Caustic! Great book!

[@LeafbyLeaf]

That’s it! Thank you!🙏

[@MaximTendu]

What a beautiful edition. Today I was leafing through a copy of GRANTA and, in the words of Alice, asked myself: "what is the use of a book without pictures?” Oh, and I too go pretty cuckoo for Krasznahorkai :D

[@Gl1tch2263]

Laszlo! Enjoyed Satantango earlier this year. That one chapter with girl has stuck with me more than anything else I’ve read. I’ve been sitting on Melancholy of Resistance for a while but think I might pick it up next now

[@hfjdksalable]

may as well pick up war&war, baron, and seiobo while you are at it.

[@LeafbyLeaf]

I agree--might as well go all in now!

[@babettedejong2975]

Yup. Must read.

[@LeafbyLeaf]

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[@bluelagoon5235]

Have you had a chance to read Seiobo There Below by Krasznahorkai yet? I remember he did an interview with Michael Silverblatt a few years ago and I even found a copy. It's a difficult work, especially to a literature newbie like me, but it's worth the read. I wish there was more discussion on that work out there!

[@bluewordsme2]

gorgeous....love love Krasznakhorkai too...i've read everything, but his newest...will order Manhattan project...and i love what ND is doing as well...check out DeWitt's The English Know Wool....btw, Chris, have you read Kraznahorkai's Animalinside?...it is extrarodinary...and is also a art book as it contains the most beautiful paintings by a german painter...now out-of-print and ridiculously expensive...but boy, it is extraordinary...another wonder vid....have agreat weekend.....bb

[@bluewordsme2]

definitely read War & War, where the character ends up in Bowery and than later in upper NYC...i think maybe the ruminations of Manhattan project found their way into that novel!

[@huabinzhou5350]

@@bluewordsme2 "the ruminations of Manhattan project" happened almost two decades after his W&W writing period, the result of which was Spadework. He did mention visit Ginsberg during his first NY visit, who gave him advice on writing W&W. And yes, a fantastic novel, the one that hit me the most among the Tetralogy.

[@bluewordsme2]

@@huabinzhou5350 yes...what i am suggesting, and i can confirm this as a writer myself, that ideas and language and thoughts weve ruminated on come back, or are even develop more fully later....w & w is brilliant, agree and yes, my fave too among the tetraology...i wonder why on earth his books didnt appear on that dreadful nytimes list of best books hahahah...idiots...thanks for your insights, bb

[@Hermit_mouse]

Dude that shirt looks cozy AF. What brand is it?

[@LeafbyLeaf]

Lululemon 😁

[@Hermit_mouse]

@@LeafbyLeaf HA! No wonder.

[@johnjacob3175]

The cover of SfaP, looks like a Lebbeus Woods drawing, just an observation

[@LeafbyLeaf]

You nailed it! And Woods features in both books, along with Melville. 🙏

[@willsi]

More Melville. Won't disagree w/ that subject.

[@LeafbyLeaf]

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[@michaelrhodes4712]

Ramblin’ in reverse, reviewin’ a route of reasons; dreamin’ of knowledge, trapped in a nightmare of epistemology. P = premise, C = conclusion. “P1. If any believer is reasonably (or justifiably) to hold a belief, then that believer must do so on the justifying basis of another justified belief. P2. If a believer reasonably holds a belief, then that believer must reasonably hold another belief to justify that first belief, and a third belief to hold that second one, and a further fourth belief to hold that third one, and so on. Call this a “chain of reasons.” C1. If a believer reasonably holds a belief, that believer must have a justifying chain of reasons (hypothetical syllogism, P1, P2). P3. If any believer is reasonably to hold a belief, it cannot be on the basis of a circular chain of reasons. P4. If any believer is reasonably to hold a belief, it cannot be on the basis of an infinite chain of reasons. P5. If any believer holds a belief on the basis of a belief without justification, that believer does not reasonably hold the first belief. C2. No believers with chains of reasons with unjustified beliefs at their ends are justified (universal generalization, P2, P5). P6. Chains of reasons either (a) are circular, (b) end with unjustified beliefs, or (c) are infinite. C3. For any believer’s chain of reasons, it either (a) goes in a circle, (b) ends with an unjustified commitment, or (c) goes on to infinity (instantiation, P6). C4. There are no beliefs for which believers are justified in holding them (destructive trilemma, P3, P4, P6).” -Scott Aikin