I asked a friend to borrow a book and she handed me Swann’s Way. I slogged through it with very little enjoyment. When I returned the book she asked me how I liked it.
“It was really slow, and a little too internal for me. You liked it?”
“Oh,” she said. “I’ve never finished it.”
In Paris, Mister Chen and I bought madeleines at a 99 cent store. They were pretty good.
I can proudly say that I’ve read the first few pages of gravity’s rainbow and then decided that the ellipses filled muddle was exactly the sort of writing that I’d do if I were mocking high literature.
In 1979 Gravity’s Rainbow blew a hole in my concept of literature big enough to drive a truckload of DFWs end notes through. I’ll still probably never finish Against the Day except with a gun to my head.
Having never really left the Midwest (excepting trips outside of the country) I wonder how much of this comic’s location is taken from a real place. I say this, because that statue keeps popping up over and over again.
I read Gravity’s Rainbow mostly because of references in Cat and Girl. It’s not bad… in places. But it would have been better if it hadn’t made such a big deal out of being incomprehensible for most people.
June 16, 2009
I asked a friend to borrow a book and she handed me Swann’s Way. I slogged through it with very little enjoyment. When I returned the book she asked me how I liked it.
“It was really slow, and a little too internal for me. You liked it?”
“Oh,” she said. “I’ve never finished it.”
In Paris, Mister Chen and I bought madeleines at a 99 cent store. They were pretty good.
June 19, 2009
I can proudly say that I’ve read the first few pages of gravity’s rainbow and then decided that the ellipses filled muddle was exactly the sort of writing that I’d do if I were mocking high literature.
June 23, 2009
In 1979 Gravity’s Rainbow blew a hole in my concept of literature big enough to drive a truckload of DFWs end notes through. I’ll still probably never finish Against the Day except with a gun to my head.
November 19, 2009
Having never really left the Midwest (excepting trips outside of the country) I wonder how much of this comic’s location is taken from a real place. I say this, because that statue keeps popping up over and over again.
July 26, 2010
I read Gravity’s Rainbow mostly because of references in Cat and Girl. It’s not bad… in places. But it would have been better if it hadn’t made such a big deal out of being incomprehensible for most people.