fu wrote:
just five is always a hard choice, it's summer and i'm working crazy hours. mix a drink for us mister oskar
-Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time)
-Kafka, Amerika / Der Verschollene (Amerika or The man who disappeared)
-Mayakovsky, A Cloud in Trousers (together with Lissitzky's art for mayakovsky's work)
-Camus, Le premier homme (The first man)
-Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The man without qualities)
Depressed, finally he addressed our late-night visitor. "Sir Fu, obviously you indulge only in the
lightest
of literature. Methinks, even a small dose of pynchonomancy might cure you!", Holmes muttered, and reached out for his needle...
Actually, if you're into Proust - you might enjoy Pickover's delightfully weird "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves" [2005]
As for drinks - how about a double Hendrick's + Fevertree, cooled not by (ice) cubes but by (frozen) supereggs?
BTW - come to think of it, I take the liberty to replace "The magic garden explained" by Bucky's "Synergetics, Vol. 1"...