Some footage of wimbeldon, shots of apparently famous people in the crowd, blandly sun-glassed staring at the camera they were aware of, offered Lynch comparisons, and particularly a revelation concerning the blue-haired silencio woman.
Also the fierce indignation in the faces of the players, most particularly when they get off a remarkable shot. This is like the sped-up view of a writer managing the intricacies of a piece, finally pulling them together, pulling off, but without the recognition of a present crowd, what seemed, moments before, impossible. Or, in the case of failure: every shot answered.
The different arts follow different times then, call them techniques in between dimensions, or "shifts" in relation to shifts, both identified and currently invisible. One isn't while the other is.
Yes. I'm not sure I like it either, though I haven't read much. I started 100 years of solitude on the advice of Olia, but I got a bit bored. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind. I ask because I was reading about Salman yesterday, and the fact that as well as the '93 'booker of bookers', his 'masterpiece' has now been named 'best of bookers'; I'm not sure of the distinction either. But the public voted, so it must be true. That means that his book is now officially the best book in the history of everything ever.
ReplyDeleteIs The Tin Drum really magical realism though? As that was next in my reading plans (or The Trial, which, criminally, I am yet to read). They were drawing parallels between drum and midnights children anyway. But that was the Guardian books blog. So, salt-pinch.
Are you referring to Julio Cortázar? I have just looked him up, but I knew little about him beyond vague recollections of the name and some of the works. Do enlighten.
not reading something is not a criminal offence. Unless you are in a country where you need to read the leader's little book and take an exam on it &tc.
ReplyDeletebooker prize can go molest itself and S rushdie can join in along with that ishigru or whatever guy and every old lady of briton
i just fixed a tape machine while mio fixed a tape. thus reaching the secret third level of adult hood
i have not read 6 million books approximately, plus 10,000 for every week or so from now on.
ReplyDeletecortazar wrote a proto little book about a motorway traffic jam , and hopscotch, a book where you can choose your own adventure but you can't die.
I haven't read the 100 yr solitude person, i flickered through something, it seemed pretty grotty.
I have read a few chapters of the trial. I have read the castle.
i have read 101 dalmations, and its sequel.
I say criminal because I bought a lovely hardback copy of it in a tiny Birkenhead secondhand bookshop about 6 years ago, and for one reason or another, I didn't read it. And still haven't. And it's annoying me, mainly due to my procrastination.
ReplyDeleteBut now I have time to read again. An hour-long bus journey to and from work sees to that. Vonnegut at the moment.
Yes, the hopscotch sounds interesting.
I bought Olia a Holga for her birthday. So she can take old-style pictures, messing around with double exposures and light bleeds and black and white etc.
http://www.lomography.com/holga/
You've got to keep the ladies occupied
ReplyDeletewhat's this got to do with the initial post anyway?
See, the problem with feeling bad about not having read certain books, is that you start colluding with the snob culture who use what they have read or claim to have read as a weapon in their social lives. Books can be read eventually. We are not all about to die and if we were we would probably want to do something else, like play with starcom figures, vehicles,and play sets.
ReplyDeleteproposal, from now on, never read the last page of a book, so if someone asks "have you read the trial" you can reply "not the last page". Look down on people who read the last page of books. Completionists!
I don't give a fuck about them. I have just been wanting to read it for myself, and I haven't. Then again, I did spend a lot of time in various states of narcotic paralysis, so explanations may lie therein. However, I do know what you mean about those people. I've met several. You can buy a book that tells you how to blag that you have read certain books:-
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by Pierre Bayard.
Not a lot Mr. Forsyth. But the feature I am writing on the logistics of the drinks industry was killing me yesterday, so I started a Magical Realism discussion after reading about the fatwa man. Plus, I felt the original post was fairly self-contained.
Holga is great. Global society of old-school photography renaissance happening for the last few years. Olia wanted it anyway.
get "appleseed" by john clute, it is only one pence on amazon (get the one with nice dark cover)
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