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0 pointsgruseom12y ago0 comments

Wait, how'd you get to Pessoa from there?!

Pessoa is fascinating. I believe it was he who wrote:

  Poets pretend
  They pretend so well
  They even pretend
  They suffer what they suffer.

... something that lodged itself in my brain years ago and never left. Pessoa wrote under countless pseudonyms. He is like Kierkegaard in that respect. You might like Fear and Trembling, in fact, based on your list.

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youngbenny12y ago

Pessoa created his own worlds. Reminds me of Henry Darger. Check out IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL if you haven't seen it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzzirIP0No.

gruseomOP12y ago

Thanks; I've run across his stuff tangentially a few times but not seen that film.

You might like Gormenghast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series)

Wyndham Lewis's novels, especially the Human Comedy that he wrote at the end of his life, are something I've always been meaning to get to. It's hard to tell if they're meaningful or impenetrable.

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