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Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel

synecdoche

Gilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel

palazzo su Regeringsgatan. Le impalcature con i teloni di nylon bianco sporco nascondono

Lars Kepler • Lazarus: Le indagini di Joona Linna (Italian Edition)

Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Introducing the book, Perec writes:

"Many, if not most, of these things have been described, inventoried, photographed, written about or itemized. My intention in the following pages was to describe what remains; that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance: what happens when nothing happens... See more

Infra-ordinary

pack. A second-edition Dune, sunrise over Arrakis on the dust jacket, follows.

Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel

3. “Every work of art is a synecdoche, there’s no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can’t think of an exception.”

–Charlie Kaufman

Britton Perelman • Just a moment...

Ainsi des essaims d'abeilles innombrables sortent toujours et sans cesse d'une roche creuse et volent par légions sur les fleurs du printemps, et les unes tourbillonnent d'un côté, et les autres de l'autre. Ainsi la multitude des peuples, hors des nefs et des tentes, s'avançait vers l'agora, sur le rivage immense.

Homer • L'Iliade (French Edition)

‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there, everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like—many years from now.’ ‘Many years from now? When we are dead and New York is old?’ ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘When everyone is tired, when the world—for Americans—is not so ne