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date: 2023-01-22 19:11:44.32 +00
title: "Mastodon post from January 22, 2023, 109734442062027951"
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fifth, sixth, and seventh books are none of them page turners, so they are all in an indeterminate race, although this silly nonsense is a likely winner: The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)

by Macedonio Fernández ( [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6554891](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6554891))


![the current paperback cover, a three color bullseye offset over a white field](./109734418157701756.png)

![parenthetical quote: The French demolish a deified painter every twenty years, a deified poet every fifteen, and a deified novelist every ten; at a hundred and fifty years it's high time Kant were thrown into doubt. This isn't daring, it would be more daring to call him a metaphysician. With these antecedents I anticipate future arguments for the demolition of my Art.](./109734418406074871.png)