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nirinia ([personal profile] nirinia) wrote2007-12-18 10:58 am

One Hundred Dollars

I've spent the last two hours in bed, finishing Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. At some point I was high on post-modernism, Foer and Oscar (Schell, not Wilde, for a change); now I contemplate it and can't really make sense of it. And cannot help but think that I am not supposed to make sense of it, and be relieved that I will never have to analyse it.

The doors, or rather, the keyholes and doorknobs, embedded seemingly at random; the pictures of birds; pages 269-271, written in digits correpsonding to those on a cell-phone.

I dearly hope that no one ever brings it to the classroom, to have it picked apart by youngsters and non-readers. And I cannot, for the life of me, make sense of it.

Usually, I would run, arms flailing madly, in the opposite direction if someone tried to hand my anything resembling post-modernism. I think I still will, but Foer certaintly accomplished something.

[identity profile] leskedrikk.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Someone interrupted me while I reading the Donna Tarrt book, I was like FU! :P

[identity profile] nirinia.livejournal.com 2007-12-18 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Being interrupted while reading is bloody awful. Particularly with questions like "What are you reading? Is it any good?"