Flush it Friday: Rolddley Walker

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As a master of good cheer and optimism, I make sure to always be caught up on my post-apocalyptic fiction. (These plotlines are then peppered into polite conversation at every possible chance, i.e. FiF.) After finishing up Richter‘s latest, I moved on to Russell Hoban’s 1980 Bildungsroman novel, Riddley Walker, a story set in England two millennia after a nuclear war. The narrator writes in a degraded form of English that makes A Clockwork Orange seem like Pat the Bunny, but figuring out the language and customs of these people is fascinating (and rewarding). Here’s a snippet of the first page for taste:

Yes, the entire book is written like this, and as the story becomes more involved, so do the obscure references and strange “new-Stone Age” concepts. What a great novel to end 2020! Y’all got any of them dystopian fiction recs? There must be a few I haven’t read.

We got some big lists from some big boiz:

TOP ALBUMS OV 2020 W/ HANS, BEN SERNA-GREY, AND SLNC!

TOP ALBUMS OV 2020 W/ LORD OF BORK, IGOM, AND BMP!

McNulty showed us some kaik; AIRSE stuff from Kairon; IRSE:

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Spear sifted through the dreck to bring you the techest tech:

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Karhu is LITERALLY a machine:

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G/B/Us below, or the next 10 articles I write are in Riddley Walker speak. (Pls don’t make me do this.)

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