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consumption, the void, and palahniuk’s choke

July 29th, 2011
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Victor is a sex addict. He attends 12-step meetings, not in the hope of recovery but to hook-up with other addicts on the bathroom floor of the community center while the meeting is going on in the room next door. Victor scrapes together a modest income by working at a colonial theme park with his [...]

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brothers karamazov, let us never forget each other…

December 5th, 2008
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Parricide, greed, lecherous desire, the existence of God, the existence of oneself, the interconnectedness of all humanity, the very meaning of life–thinking on such topics is bound to leave a mark. It has on me. Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, I had the real pleasure of taking in a production of The Brothers Karamazov at [...]

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reading waiting for godot by samuel beckett

July 30th, 2008
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Sneaking in a little more summer reading with an existential classic–Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It’s been on my to-read list for years and on my shelf for almost as long. I thought I’d move it to the top of the list. Is my life anything more than a distraction–an endless array of meaningless preoccupations to [...]

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