Subject: Our missing friends, returning ones, and The Hours
From: The Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@spray.se)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 06:18:38 GMT
Cecilia wrote (after her beautiful poem):
-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
(Oh. Bruce and Mattis have departed, and Matt K. claims that he looks in
from time to time, but he's working on his dissertation and can't allow
the fish to suck him in.)
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Sorry to hear this. Hopefully, like me, they can’t really stay away for any length of time.
On the other hand, I can already see the effects of our dear friend Antiutopia returning – welcome back, Jim! - never afraid to speak his opinion: the list postings went down with a third when you left back there, and a lot of really interesting perspectives disappeared as well. Now when you’re a section man yourself, no one knows what will happen. I’ll enjoy the ride!
On reading
Last year, I was caught in the world of Marcel Proust, and after that I read almost nothing for a while. No more than a book a month, and everything containing more than 250 pages I wouldn’t even finish, as if my ability to keep my interest up for anything longer was gone. It had, of course, nothing to do with dear Marcel and his world, but of my own inner state; sad it was, never the less. Perhaps the saddest of it all was that I didn’t enjoy anything new the way I enjoyed re-reading old books. Like all I could swallow was what I hade already chewed on before. Therefore Nine Stories (of which I found a copy exactly like my first one, the one with quadrates in different colour on the cover, in a dusty antique shop somewhere around Amsterdam and 83rd), The Catcher and F&Z, melted like candy in my mouth, but the promise of the unknown presented no thrill for me at all.
Therefore, I’m happy to recommend a beautiful little flower, the Hours by Michael Cunningham. It is nothing inaccessible for the readers of this list, to put it mildly, since it won the 1999 Pulitzer price, but it gave me a feeling of awakening from a grey sleep I started to fear would be my new state of being.
/tlm
PS I did mention Salinger, so don’t accuse me of writing *totally* off topic
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