Author of the Year: 1998.
The most significant author who died in this year.
William Gaddis (1922-1998)
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Literarischer #29Dezember
„If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”
#WilliamGaddis #JR Geburtstag 1922
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"How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible."
✒️ American novelist #WilliamGaddis, author of "The Recognitions," was #BOTD 29 December 1922. #Literature
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“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”
(The Recognitions)
✒️ #WilliamGaddis, American author, #DOTD 16 December 1998. #Literature
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My favorite reads of 2025. 4th book.
#JR
#WilliamGaddis
-Our trip…to buy this share of America it is this company that makes things...baskets.Why nobody buys this baskets is there is this law...supply and decline passed by Congress consisting of three branches judicial executory and legislature...
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“I’m also surprised in retrospect that I didn’t pick what’s often referred to as a ‘ #systemsnovel,’ by which I mean the work of authors like #WilliamGaddis, #DonDeLillo, #ThomasPynchon and #DavidFosterWallace - #writers who deal with vast and complex systems..” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
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Finished #AgapēAgape
#WilliamGaddis
…the new, the challenging or what’s labeled difficult, so when Gravity's Rainbow is being devoured by college youth everywhere and wins the National Book Award, its unanimous recommendation by the Pulitzer jury is overturned by the trustees….
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…like Wertheimer destroying his thousands of notes before he hanged himself…Then would he have said he wanted to become the piano…the Steinway…
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Sometimes we get close to this ideal, he said…All his life Glenn had wanted to be the Steinway itself…
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Babbage and his Difference Engine, Babbage and his Analytical Engine with its punched cards…Jacquard's loom….the frenzy of invention and mechanization and democracy and how to have art without the artist and automation, cybernetics you can see….
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This work is too much of everything. Almost a DNF. Putting back in the deep recesses of a TBR shelf. Will give JR a chance later this summer.
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"Every work of art is a work of perfect necessity."
-- William Gaddis
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"Be petty enough and the world may make you a Prince. The cheat, not the meek, has inherited the earth."
—William H. Gass
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Finished #JR
#WilliamGaddis
-Just stop for a minute…and look…At the evening, the sky, the wind, don't you ever just stop sometimes and look? and listen?
-Well I,I mean sure, I…
-Yes look up at the sky look at it! Is there a millionaire for that...Does there have to be a millionaire for everything?"
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#JR
#WilliamGaddis
—Look…I mean if he worked…
—Come off it man…somebody gets a job and like the first thing they do they try to figure out how to not do it…look at you man…writing this music…getting this money free to play it…what's the difference if you get help off that and…off this welfare…
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Lectures 2025
#5
#WilliamGaddis “Los Reconocimientos”
Pare de:
Terra Nostra de C. Fuentes
A Contrallum de T. Pynchon
Avi de:
Solenoide de M. Cărtărescu
2666 de R. Bolaño
El Troiacord de M de Palol
Canti del Caos de A. Moresco
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#JR
#WilliamGaddis
-Look…if I want to do something illegal what do I want with a lawyer…These laws are these laws why should we want to do something illegal if some law lets us do it anyway…you're supposed to find out exactly the letter of them and that's what we do exactly the letter!
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#JR
#WilliamGaddis
…you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends…vice presidents...spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming...no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.…
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Geweldig zoals die Gaddis te keer gaat tegen de evangelicals in de VS en hun scheppingsverhaal… #williamgaddis
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#JR
#WilliamGaddis
—Our trip our trip was to buy this share of America it is this company that makes things they are baskets. Why nobody buys this baskets is there is this law the law of supply and decline passed by Congress consisting of three branches judicial executory and legislature which….
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#JR
#WilliamGaddis
…this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it…exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.…
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📚 Unmasking Truth with William Gaddis: Author of the Day!✍️
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"How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible."
✒️ American novelist #WilliamGaddis, author of "The Recognitions," was #BOTD 29 December 1922. #Literature
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