Mar 13, 2005 20:48
Break is over. Pretty good time, although it was too short &c. I picked up the Atlantic yesterday and the piece in the well was by DFW. At the beginning of the article I was all eye rolling and everything, because I assumed that I hated DFW for being such a self absorbed obnoxious know-it-all prick. But as I moved on I got to enjoying the article; it was informative and entertaining, and while it was annoying at first, the constant use of parentheticals and footnotes ended up being kind of fun. When I'm writing I have a tendency to want to include a lot of ideas inside ideas inside ideas, and while I'm not talented or practiced enough to pull it off, he is, so it makes for an interesting read.
I was just looking at an interview with the guy who is Judas Iscariot. He listed some of his favorite books. Check out his description of "Nature":
"R.W. Emerson NATURE (Essay) - a god loving pussy, but he expounds upon nature so intensely"
I know, I know.