:: book in a box ::
i am reading the most fascinating book ever! it's the unfortunates by b.s. johnson and it is a book which comes in a box!
27 thin pamphlets, with the first and last being marked out as such, but otherwise you can reshuffle the remaining 25 chapters any way you like and there will still be a narrative. this is incredibly, sexily cool and i cannot believe my sup. just lent it to me because on abebooks.com the cheapest copy (same edition as the one she has) is going for a whopping USD 150 -- at second-hand.
i will prance off to contemplate ellisions and non-linear narrative structures and the tendency of the human mind to assign linearity to time-sequences.
and hey, the sun's just up! and tristella thinks i'm wise! which must mean she isn't! :D love ya anyway babes.... *muakz*
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so i shuffled the book like a deck of cards (this is so fun! i am such a geek!) and here's a bit from the end of the first pamphlet:
“Here it was he talked about the RAF. So? So must others, for ever, or talk about something like it, and it does not matter to them, now, it cannot have mattered at any point to me, so why this, if it is so meaningless, anything means something only if you impose meaning on it, which is itself a meaningless thing, the imposition.”
Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
(the King James sounds ever so much nicer)
27 thin pamphlets, with the first and last being marked out as such, but otherwise you can reshuffle the remaining 25 chapters any way you like and there will still be a narrative. this is incredibly, sexily cool and i cannot believe my sup. just lent it to me because on abebooks.com the cheapest copy (same edition as the one she has) is going for a whopping USD 150 -- at second-hand.
i will prance off to contemplate ellisions and non-linear narrative structures and the tendency of the human mind to assign linearity to time-sequences.
and hey, the sun's just up! and tristella thinks i'm wise! which must mean she isn't! :D love ya anyway babes.... *muakz*
*
so i shuffled the book like a deck of cards (this is so fun! i am such a geek!) and here's a bit from the end of the first pamphlet:
“Here it was he talked about the RAF. So? So must others, for ever, or talk about something like it, and it does not matter to them, now, it cannot have mattered at any point to me, so why this, if it is so meaningless, anything means something only if you impose meaning on it, which is itself a meaningless thing, the imposition.”
Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
(the King James sounds ever so much nicer)