...for futher reading

I know you purists out there are only interested in finding the true meaning behind the author's purpose via your own inquisition to the novel. However, if you're interested in some interesting fact-finding, insightful background, and simple allusions DFW kept secretly hidden, then go to google books and look up "Understanding DFW" - you can read it online. Go to the "Broom" chapter.

I love finding the back channels...I'm just sayin.

His non-sequiters

What I really enjoyed was Rick's sad stories that he reads to Lenore for entertainment. I laughed because the guy put more detail into narrating the story than the college student put into writing it. Talk about false identity! Too bad his sexual potency wasn't as long as his story-telling. Poor poor pitiful Rick.

Current favorite Quote, Still Early in the Book

". . in even more liquid hues the ghostly scene of Lenore and me running toward each other in slow motion through the pale gelatin of our respective inhibitions and various troubles." p. 61.


Yes, it is part of the over-the-top diction of Mr. Vigorous. That whole chapter "5 - -1990" cracked me up with the wildly weird sappy language that guy uses.

"Her lips are full and red and tend to wetness and do not ask but rather demand, in a pout of liquid silk, to be kissed."

". . . not so much a kiss as it is a dislocation, a removal and rude transportation of essence from self to lip, so that it is not so much two human bodies coming together and doing the usual things with their lips as it is two sets of lips spawned together and joined in a kind from the beginning of post-Scarsdale time, achieving full ontological status only in subsequent union and trailing behind and below them, as they join and become wholw, two now utterly superflous fleshly stems of overblossomed flora,trailing hoes on the ground, husks."


and on and on and on.

I highlighted the parts that sent me into stunned laughter.

Dig the new upgrade!

I'll have some stuff to talk about on DFW. I'm half way done, so be ready...(this is a note to myelf, you don't have to be ready.)

Silly Word Site

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

The Malaisian's Life

OK. I liked this one, too: Christians talk about the horror of sin, but they have overlooked something. They keep talking as if everyone were a great sinner, when the truth is that nowadays one is hardly up to it. There is very little sin in the depths of the malaise. The highest moment of a malaisian’s life can be that moment when he manages to sin like a proper human.

Favorite Quote from The Moviegoer (with the exception of Kierkegaard's at the beginning)

"What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me. So simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life."