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“This almost confrontational-feeling assertiveness in style is as if Lin is wilfully shaping his audience. Taipei reads as if narrated by a not-too-distant brain, written by, and for, no one in particular, but simply “is”. As if Schopenhauer’s assertion (oft cited by Lin), that one’s life should read like a book already written, to detach oneself from the pain, has manifested itself within Lin’s own life, the words spider through the pages as if somehow they have always been there.”

The Quietus, Declan Tan re Tao Lin’s Taipei (4 Jun 2013, Vintage)

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“The ephemeral generations of man are born and pass away in quick succession. Individual men burdened with fear, want, and sorrow, dance into the arms of death. As they do so they never weary of asking what it is that ails them and what the whole tragic comedy is supposed to mean.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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