True - very little solace does come.... but if you go with the drifting thoughts and shifting walls... then whole GALAXIES of possibilities open up. (People forget that even inside themselves their own 'walls' and 'floors' shift - as cells and dna and genes replace themselves... so nothing is ever static - Go with the Flow!!)
I'm following your struggles and flowings with the House of Leaves book, but I just could NOT!!! haven't got through tomes of straightforward print yet !!! keep being distracted by other titles that pop up ...
I'm a bit concerned about the author of House of ... scary head that!
Even a couple of years back, I baulked at taking on this book - it is a project, I think, rather than just a story and not for the faint-hearted. I will admit some of it feels a bit 'money-for-old-rope'. BUT.....it is good, just difficult to grasp shifting perceptions.
I think of it as an excercise in complete concentration; unless you have a brain the size of a planet, I don't think it is a book that most people could retain in snatches.; I most certainly couldn't.
At least I know that I can practically read ANYTHING now and understand it :-)
You know, you're tempting me!!! You really are.. I AM curious... and now that my head is returning with my legs.... I do need something to work the brain with...
Shall I Oscar Wilde???? Do you think my old nut could cope with all the changes and wierdnesses... or would I LOVE IT... simply cos it was different? Shall read your review and Ummmmm upon it!!!!
Bless... and I think you've done bloody wonders with coping with all the changes and SEEING them.. and SORTING them and REASONING with them... Hell, analysing ordinary prose is bad enough... but ... I AM CURIOUS!!!!!!
I ENJOYED Ulysses.... I did - honest! I'm an inveterate people watcher so I did enjoy his people-watching thorts - he had them pinned like exhibits... teehee. It was like me being inside him looking out! and all the Dubliners and the roads and .... gosh. I really really enjoyed it! Not a BIT like the first time I 'read' it (ie just skimmed it and didn't understand it at all).
At the moment I'm slowly enjoying (again... ENJOYING) Anna Karenina... as I'm sitting in Russia in the l870s with their attitudes and morals and crazy CRAZY twisted minds. Oh lor... life is hard enough without going into the vapours and depressions just cos someone refused an offer (oh god, what an offer. bloody stupid Levin) of marriage. OH THE SHAME... etc had banging and breast beating... it's almost hilarious if it wasn't so very sad. I dislike Anna, although she's only the product of the times. Selfish tho. Poor Vronsky is - oh dear. Not the Sean Bean of the film Vronsky!!
But the cleverness of the writing... spelling out Levin's (who is such a complicatedly simple soul)thorts on the 'happy simple peasants' life' and then going home to hand hat to butler, coat to servant, eat food prepared by cooks etc... without EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT! it is so CLEVERly done. I must say, having time to really READ...is so very enjoyable. Must make bed and do some more! teehee.
HOpe you've found something else deep and complicated to delve into!!?
Not so deep or complicated this time - 'The Handmaid's Tale,' by Margaret Atwood. Have you read it? If not, I have two journal entries on LJ about it :-)
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I'm following your struggles and flowings with the House of Leaves book, but I just could NOT!!! haven't got through tomes of straightforward print yet !!! keep being distracted by other titles that pop up ...
I'm a bit concerned about the author of House of ... scary head that!
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I think of it as an excercise in complete concentration; unless you have a brain the size of a planet, I don't think it is a book that most people could retain in snatches.; I most certainly couldn't.
At least I know that I can practically read ANYTHING now and understand it :-)
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Shall I Oscar Wilde???? Do you think my old nut could cope with all the changes and wierdnesses... or would I LOVE IT... simply cos it was different? Shall read your review and Ummmmm upon it!!!!
Bless... and I think you've done bloody wonders with coping with all the changes and SEEING them.. and SORTING them and REASONING with them... Hell, analysing ordinary prose is bad enough... but ... I AM CURIOUS!!!!!!
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and all the Dubliners and the roads and .... gosh. I really really enjoyed it! Not a BIT like the first time I 'read' it (ie just skimmed it and didn't understand it at all).
At the moment I'm slowly enjoying (again... ENJOYING) Anna Karenina... as I'm sitting in Russia in the l870s with their attitudes and morals and crazy CRAZY twisted minds. Oh lor... life is hard enough without going into the vapours and depressions just cos someone refused an offer (oh god, what an offer. bloody stupid Levin) of marriage. OH THE SHAME... etc had banging and breast beating... it's almost hilarious if it wasn't so very sad. I dislike Anna, although she's only the product of the times. Selfish tho. Poor Vronsky is - oh dear. Not the Sean Bean of the film Vronsky!!
But the cleverness of the writing... spelling out Levin's (who is such a complicatedly simple soul)thorts on the 'happy simple peasants' life' and then going home to hand hat to butler, coat to servant, eat food prepared by cooks etc... without EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT! it is so CLEVERly done. I must say, having time to really READ...is so very enjoyable. Must make bed and do some more! teehee.
HOpe you've found something else deep and complicated to delve into!!?
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