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Arcade.

"Berryman once tried to provoke his mother into a confession, reserving for her a front seat for a lecture he gave on Hamlet at Princeton, in which he examined in psychoanalytical detail the play’s murderous family dynamics. Steelier than Gertrude, Martha rather brilliantly outwitted her son, leaving her seat vacant until he was well underway, and eventually making a dramatic entrance in high heels and a startlingly bright dress." —Mark Ford via

Pynchons ranked (with useful summaries). And Dickens.

"Their goal was not to co-opt Aboriginal culture or pass it off as their own but to enter imaginatively into the reality that the Australian landscape has its own metaphysics."