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see: malcolm_lowry's_volcano
who knows if i will read, finish, and absorb this book about a book, or will it be put on the shelf for an arrangement to hold potential only? and eventually, when it's no longer of any use, donated to the library.
at any rate it begins with markson's quote of t.s. eliot's commentary on ulysses which is "under the volcano"'s direct inspiration:
"It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history."
-ELIOT, "Ulysses, Order and Myth"
and then it goes on to talk about Dante, and Homer, and etc. etc. etc.
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